Show LOOKS FOR FRIENDS AND NOT COMPANY A nice young chap was talkIng to toan an older woman him You know I like to 10 Invite the thebo's II boys bos out lie he was saying and i have ta e got it all figured out now V noVo o that I can do It without makIng trouble At first I found it made moth molher nCI OUS hut now I fix It so 50 thi th y 31 ent at the house very much and ar never for Cor anything but You Yott see ee be explained we Iia lunch downtown and then I aIwa alwa's to do something In the e ev e ning and go o somewhere for dinc Thea I help fix up a little before hand I dont don't mInd fussing round roun a a. bit It doesn't take tak Ion long and tha way St It doesn't worry mother From the way the chap talk d it didn't appear that his mother was wa waon on an Invalid She was evidently just jus one ne of these apprehensIve fus y Little women who make hard worl of t everything and to whom com coor compan kind of o pan any had always been a bugbear VeIl Vell the tho result was that a hom homo to o her was a place to keep out iut or of just as much as pos The rh boy had It all figured out Dy 13 I Ia a dozen airy excuses ho and his hlo friend just blew blest Ju In In time to g go goto to 0 bed Breakfast was not nol a hard I teal meal so they could get their morn morn- mornIngs mornIng's Ings Ing's hot cakes at the family board I lut Dut alter after that there were diverting things bings to be thought of to take tile hoc I awa away so that he be wouldn't be bea a bother It II couldn't have been I that List this home bome was shabby or un undy dy for no one could have bae looked so 0 Immaculate and so far from pov po erty ny stricken and come from a poor hole ole or of a place No It wasn't that It was just the fact that his moth moth- mother mothr er r must have hayo suffered from a kInd kIndo kindI o I company complex Perhaps she was one or of those the world women omen who imagine that Is made up of e super who eat eata a different sort of food and sleep bed than the In 1 a different sort of kind md she load had been used to Where Where- a 5 If she only knew it all au or of us ho live livo outside of that story book world orid peopled with parlor maids d butlers are about the same We eat about the same sort or of thing dug for Cor breakfast and ask only 01 l a clean bed and a welcome But Dut women as hostesses dont don't trust themselves enough They that they hM hae e to greet guests bearing gifts of fine finesilver silver iver and linen and rich viands What nonsense ir If we dId that or guests would be quite a as much 11 ft naoh No all that thai boys boy's to give her bel sons son's friends was a happy welcome Her house must have been good enough and her table just as It vas as set from day dayto dayto to day would have been ample for forbis his bis friends There is no place in thIs world orld for company after aner all There are I only friends If they arent aren't friends c 0 ought not to share our homes I with them But Dut If they are friends they want a welcome and a cense of home and the kind of everyday b bd d and board that wo we are all thankful to have so lets let's ban corn com compan pans pan front from now non on and open OIn the tue front door wide to friends n |