Show I SOCIAL ETIQUETTE Some Admirable TraIts of Foreign Sooiet Xot Yet Quite Attained In America There is a simplicity and absence of sell consciousness in the manners foreigners according ac-cording to Mrs Sherwood which has not ye1 reached America She affirms that you wiL rarely see a bashful Frenchman He aski you to his wedding his simple dinner or hit little feast offering you the best he has line as he is not thinking of himself but of you as ho is not ashamed of his small means hI makes you perfectly happy Such a thing ama a capricious hostess is known in America but it is not known on the Continent A capricious woman who forgets that sin has asked you to dinner who is late at hei own dinner who invites more people than she has room for but who is so sraceful and fascinating and lovely that everybody forgives for-gives her is one of the agonies of society for she makes every one uncomfortable and yet nobody can do without her Phyllis is my only joy Changeful as the winds of morning Sometimes villful sometimes coy All my vows and raptures scorning Shell my ancient wishes tease Yet she never fails to please except when seven or eight other people art put out by her little wiles |