If a woman is attractive, she will be asked
out all the same, never fear! If she is not popular, the few dozen
of "egg-shell extra" that she can manage to slip in at the front
doors of her acquaintances will not help her much.
If this matter is, however, so vastly important in women's eyes,
why not adopt the continental and diplomatic custom and send cards
by post or otherwise? There, if a new-comer dines out and meets
twenty-five people for the first time, cards must be left the next
day at their twenty-five respective residences. How the cards get
there is of no importance. It is a diplomatic fiction that the new
acquaintance has called in person, and the call will be returned
within twenty-four hours. Think of the saving of time and
strength! In Paris, on New Year's Day, people send cards by post
to everybody they wish to keep up. That does for a year, and no
more is thought about it. All the time thus gained can be given to
culture or recreation.
I have often wondered why one sees so few women one knows at our
picture exhibitions or flower shows. It is no longer a mystery to
me. They are all busy trotting up and down our long side streets
leaving cards. Hideous vision! Should Dante by any chance
reincarnate, he would find here the material ready made to his hand
for an eighth circle in his INFERNO.
CHAPTER 21 - "Like Master Like Man.
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