I prefer to do one-half and enjoy what
I do. If I go to a house, it is to remain and appreciate whatever
entertainment has been prepared for me. I never offer to any
hostess the slight of a hurried, DISTRAIT 'call,' with glances at
my watch, and an 'on-the-wing' manner. It is much easier not to
go, or to send a card."
This brings me around to a subject which I believe is one of the
causes of my correspondent's dilemma. I fear that she never can
refuse anything. It is a peculiar trait of people who go about to
amuse themselves, that they are always sure the particular
entertainment they have been asked to last is going to "be
amusing." It rarely is different from the others, but these people
are convinced, that to stay away would be to miss something. A
weary-looking girl about 1 A.M. (at a house-party) when asked why
she did not go to bed if she was so tired, answered, "the nights I
go to bed early, they always seem to do something jolly, and then I
miss it."
There is no greater proof of how much this weary round wears on
women than the acts of the few who feel themselves strong enough in
their position to defy custom. They have thrown off the yoke (at
least the younger ones have) doubtless backed up by their husbands,
for men are much quicker to see the aimlessness of this stupid
social routine. First they broke down the great New-Year-call
"grind.
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