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Show Work and Life. I was much Impressed by what the head of a large and prosperous bourgeois bour-geois French family suld to an American Ameri-can friend: "During the day we are all busy with our various avocations. Tho evenings are dovoted to more serious seri-ous things reading, music, conversation, conversa-tion, society." This Is surely the normal nor-mal point of view of a civilized man living In a civilized society. In Italy, whero social life, as In Franco, Is taken somewhat more Borl-ousy Borl-ousy than with us, It Is usual for tho women prominent In society to ro-celve ro-celve In the evening. One evening a week t8ometlmes two, in a tew cases every ovoHlng) Is sot apart for receiving receiv-ing tho friends and habitues of the liouso. In Dome, whero society Is more crystallized, whero tho social game 1b hotter played than In any community com-munity I know, one or two of the great houses oro open to visitors on overy evening of the week. Maud Howe, in Harper's Dazar. |
