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Show o J AN IDEA FOR A HANDSOME HOUSE BODICE. FRIENDSHIPS OF m$ VACATION TIME. It Is Xot Wise To De Too Intimate With Strainers, Better Cling To Old Friends, By Helen Ward. """"" Of course it is very pleasant to knowr every one :n the hotel 'where you are spending your vacation, and if you are on chatting terms the pleasure is doubled dou-bled certainly. .1 would warn you, however, not to make too much of a confidante of the charming lady who has just arrived with her handsome husband and who seems to be very agreeable and is such an entertaining conversationalist. Think twice before you allow yourself your-self to be subtly drawn into betraying to the genial couple just how many diamond ornaments you are carrying in the' little qhamols bag about your j neck; the number of sterling silver, pieces you packed up and put away so carefully, where thieves would never nev-er think of looking for them, ere you left home; of the sealskin sacques.in yonr closets there, and of the amount of money you have by you which dear papa was so kind as to insist upon sending you, and which you have no earthly way to spend. Keep to yourself whether your neighbors at home have as much silver as you have, and where they keep it and how many people-at the hotel wear diamonds, and where their rooms are situated. Indeed, my dears, it is neither wisest nor best to become too intimate with new acquaintances, who are up to the time you meet them ei) tire strangers j to you and unvouched or by mutual ' friends. I do not say hold aloof from new arrivals ar-rivals because they ari unknown to . you. But I do caution j u to be careful care-ful to talk only upon g- neral subjects which could not in any way lead you into difficulty through Aem. Women at vacation resorts are apt to jump impulsively toward the making of new 'acquaintances and are far less 1 discriminating and prudent than they are wont to be at home, fine clothes i and suave manners being an open se-! se-! same to their good will. I Never enter into personal topics con-! con-! cerning your neighbors or yourself with ! people whom you have but recently I met. Sweet and tender, strong and true friendships which have lasted a lifetime life-time have been formed between women who have met at summer resorts and learned to care for each other more than ordinary acquaintances; but remember re-member such a friendship is the result of years. . Perhaps not one guest out of many thousands- who ccme and go at theae j great resorts could be stigmatized by the severe name of fraud, or, severer still, professional thief. But be careful care-ful that it is not that thousandth guest that you have met and are exchanging confidences with so rashly. Let me hope that you who are Ko thoughtless as to make intimate friends out of strangers in a few hours' time will heed this little bit of timely warning. The old, tried and true friends are the best, my dears; always the best and safest. THE PRINCESS H AS A DAUGHTER. Word comes from over the water that a little princess has come to the house of the Cantacuzenes- , Miss Julia Dent Grant married Prince Michael Cantacuzene last September, the wedding taking place at Newport at the home of the bride's, aunt, Mrs. PotieT Palmer. The Princess went t once to her husband's estate, near Mostxfw,' where she haa since resided. |