Show f Evils of Ecing a Friend S I find being too intimate with people rather a disadvantage than otherwise remarked a popular woman recently If you arc there Is always apt to come a time when you are no longer a persona grata but merely a friend that can be treated anyhow Just like one of time family fam-ily and yet bo rolled upon never to take offense When your hostess begins to seat herself In the most comfortable chair leaving you to take whit you can got and puts you In the small bedroom when you visit her because she knows you will not care you may know that the point 1 have spoken of has been reached At their very nicest and most exclusive dinners din-ners too you are Ronerally left out Dear Katie they wIll say knows how it is herself certain people must be asked there arc so many pay backs to be Invited In-vited Of course you hove to say you quite understand It but you are not particularly par-ticularly pleased to be written to at time eleventh hour by your dear Emily sa > lug What a comfort to have a true friend 1 know you will come over this evening and fill Mrs loftys place who has Just given up Or to be asked time next week because you know them so well to help leaven time lump of a distinctly dis-tinctly frump dinner party 1 am having old Mr andMrs Winter trom the country coun-try writes dear Emily and poor Miss Wither who goes out so little and a few others like that I know you will not mind coming to enliven things for them There are not many I could ask such a favor of 1 should think not I ejaculate mentally but 1 feel that I never need stand upon ceremony with my dear Katie Ka-tie This she certainly never docs but 1 am beginning to wish she would Chicago Chi-cago Inter Ocean |