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Show The Ciifttom of Announcing. Some New York women will not adopt the custom, now almost universal, of having guests announced. All first class caterers send out "callers" along with dooropeuers and maids for the cloak rooms, but not all hostesses accept their services. "It's too much like Washington Washing-ton and official crushes," said one frequent fre-quent entertainer the other day. "It's English, too, I know," she went on, "but I like to pay my guests the compliment, of recalling them without having my memory stimulated by a servant." "That's all very well," said her companion, com-panion, also often a hostess, "but in my case, without their aid, I should pay many of my very good friends the poor compliment of inability to say their names at all. I really couldn't get through an 'at homo' creditably if deprived de-prived of this assistance. I find great difficulty iu making names fit faces, and in the constantly arriving throng I should get hopelessly confused if tilings were not all arranged for me." Her Point of View in New York Times. |