Show THE TEM ART AILT or OF entertaining if an icy cold coldness less reigns in well holt heat ed rooms roams it if people pass L each other oth er distantly stare at the pic luri or turn over the leaves leav of photograph albums a ant yet look forward eagerly and with J I 1 pleasure to the moment when they can I 1 bill bid rood firlit to lie their host hast these are I 1 evidences ot of a discomfort not always expressible in words for even thou gh conventionality requires that they dopart depart with tho the fervent assurance that I 1 they have spent a delightful evening 1 it Is a a lie the host may be charming 1 i cordial ant and well intoning but it is a martyrdom martyr dm to attend a function at hla his house for or the reason reacon that he Is not no t fitted for the duties of a social loader leader the same people who answer hla ila call would in another house have bave been obil able to enjoy themselves thoroughly the mot mort dangerous as a host to the pe peace Us of mind blind ot of society people I 1 Is the nervous man the perturbed manner with which ho he receives s his guests betrays the fact that the company sa is built up like mosaic figuratively speaking the falling of oa one stone would cause MO W whole 1010 edifice to crum lile file in pieces lie ile la Is palo and n m he rushes hither ild and i t thither hither tearful fearful IL ast t orri ething will go eo wrong and ipe ka to tile tho guests who have arrived without about knowing what lie Is tin i ile he looks hurriedly around end and exclaims hw hant nt smith corne come yet inere can ho hobe be lie la always late he haa not written declining my invitation lust last night in the club he told loj rile me ali ah I 1 here he Is at last and goi up to 0 smith 11 ahe e ays why I 1 nv was N 1 quite I lit t T ai wart 11 1 rm 1 lanm nw fin f er in vali ar at tie clock and ami hla his forehead the worst vorst 0 of it la Is thil his nervousness Is infectious before before an hour has hag elapsed clapis eil the whole com company parly is in the same condition even the servants with the refreshments seem to be rendered nervous by simple thanks from any of those present stolid men become gradually grai lually excited answering the most innocent questions either cither irritably or absent illy it Is only when athey are at a t the table or lose siahs 0 of their enter talner that the customary equanimity of tile the guests guess Is restored |