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Show Kid SKow-Off Bores Guests By ALICIA HART Sometimes to earn the reputation reputa-tion of being a wonderful hostess a woman must abandon her natural nat-ural Instinct to show off her children to gueste. Often parents pun their children chil-dren out of bed so that they may recite, dance or turn somersaults for the company. Even infanta are lifted from their cribs to have the spotlight turned on them. Other parents, just aa guilty, turn on the motion picture pic-ture projector and treat guests (usually yawning behind their hand) to reel after reel of their offsprings' antics. Usually guests will not be amused. Many of them accepted the invitation so that they might forget, for a few hours at least, their own children. Others might not be overfond of children chil-dren and their attentions will merely be In the form of politeness. polite-ness. And even the moat avid child, lover welcomes the chance to have adult fun with adult friends without having "little ' people" cut in. |