The sun., 1918-07-28
Smart Dinners at
an Old Inn and
Perfe lily Man
aged Picnics Ar
ranged by French
Officers Compen-
sations for Stay at
Homes


the form of an engraved card. That
sort of invitation execrably typed on
the usual telegraph blank and de-
livered by the usual gum chewing mes
senger boy, aetat, about 60, and clad in
the absurd travesty on the army uni
form which the Western Union has
recently adopted. is one of the amusing
anomalies of these always interesting
times.
Compensntions of Stay mt Homes.
AS a matter of fact, while 1t is the
conventional attitude to be sorry for
the girls who have to stay in the stuffy
city all summer, they don't any OF
them really have to stay, and the
staying certainly has its compensa-
lions. They are having quite as good
time as most of their playmates
who are at the resorts
Everybody knows the old story of
the girl who. when all the other girls
she knew .athered up elaborate sum-
mer trouSseauX and went off to one
watering place or another or to some
wonderful mountain resort, stayed
quietly at home, and each evening,
looking as dainty and cool as possible.
entertained all the men she knew and
met a lot of new ones on summer
evenings at her city home, and by fall,
when the other girls were coming
home with merely the memory of "a
norfoc,I,, i,,,rossihIs r,aIo Was ohio "a
taLo nor Moi, n, b,,r ao,o,, oI,,,;h,a.
hecause che had s,ayed ot home and
| sshad ,,haro ~ es.i,, ,,,o, od
Tho mora, of tb,t s,o,,, ;s ,arfoc,,v
| c,eor ond ,n,, ,ir, larkroa1 :,
Tho girls Who ,ro .tayipg bero ,rd
| u,rni,a ,,oIdo, o,,i,io,,. g. ..oi,
na+rIotio. so,f-sacriGro NO ;rriao,,au,,
| b,,,inr, a., ,,.f,,,I,, o,ood ,i,,,o o,d 49,,
| ahlo ., la, ,bo ea,,a.,,,r ,,,o,,, a.
,bei- souls Tho, ,ho,, aro a,r,;,,,, !,
o,o of tho n,o,s,,, fo,,,,uo, 80 ma.
n,rticu,,r srn,po.r to hair oo,,,,.;t-
,,,ad h,, tho I>ran,r, oeoorn - ~
r,ie,ior ,o u,bo,,, ,.or,, ,,o,or,, hae
ni,aIity has beer ,ytondaa d, uya,h
| inpton az avervubere ole. in the.a
limited States perb,n, rather wore
in Wasbipgton hocousa ,bis 10 hood
| nu,r.ors ,nd ,ba, ora ho-o ,,,oro
| They hv NAV NJ returr,,,g son,o 80
it--most,y nm SUNDAY hooa,,sa CO.,
doy Go th.,r r.ora,,;o,, DO, o,,5 l,,,,
NJ doors becauee tho rr.ncb .I,,o,.
loan IN out of d,,or .,tor,,i,iro ,o,,o,,
their ci,y oaf.s b.,.o ,ho,r -. 40
sired tables ont .,roo,, an tba roc
ment while the Enelisb lilo 70 ha
exclusive and bui,d b;ch bri,t, ,.,I,s
around their ga,dens,I-,ra arr.,e-
ing a series of nicrics j., tho cnrrtr,.
They are deIirhtful affairs
eroun of the E>rencb ofscors u,;tb n
company of attractive girls and a we'll
selected chaperon-thsre's q whole Iot
I in picking YOUR chaperon iudiciouslv--
off for the woodlands. The girls are
enthusiastic about these parties. and
invitations to them are highly prized.
The men are the most delightful
hosts imaginable, arrange their menus
with French skill. and have them pre-
pared by French cooks. All the girls
have to do with the feast is to cat il
! in some ideal spot selected as carefully
as the food and allow themselves to
be waited on and fiattered by the hest
hosts in the world - amiahle. always
| attentive. unfaiiinGly good tempered,
and so ready to please and to he
pleased that IL would be unforgiVable
| churishness that did not respond.
Speaking of high brick walls--I was
moment ago-reminds me OF the
wall that encloses the delightful old
garden or the Henry kirke Porters'
house at Sixteenth and | streets, rum
ming back to meet that of the John
Hay house, where the Wadsworths
live 1t used to worry me that that
house was closed so much and 50
tight. There have been times when
the IVY had grown completely across
the shutters of the house, when the
family was away for year or two at
| a time. 1t seemed a shame that no