The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 9

les an pass a team or car on the d side. Don't back and fill Go straight ez Don’t forget that the farmer's dogs and chickens are of value to him Don't forget that women are and have been extended sies for gen- ons and are naturally more or less scream when re are rses a n _a car unlgss it is off the road blast of th HE girl with th mobile! Don’t you love her or detest thorough s irresisti’ breezy, so ds and so al- togethe: 1 and dent One m that you were all in a next she dampens ng you as though you ath her feet. She's party, much #o, t of every chaps th: her long to take to the hide themselves in th ten schief loving imp is plent an successfully 4 d edge of despalr, but the girl on the wheel is the last ks the camel's back. She ither, now and then to smile in € particu- ner, but she never loses I-can-take-care-of-my to be such a sharp and the side of all mankind ure, there are giris and girls as s cars and cars. For instance, there’s the bud of some ten years bloom- ing. Her reasons for playing the chauf- feur are 8o personal and so designing that she'd rather suffer death by than confess. She hates to acknowledge even to herself that her position in soclety is rapidly becoming a guestion difficult to propound. Her friends who made their gay littie bow when she did have long since married or moved away and left her withering on the stem. “There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it,”” she comforts her- self and straightway begins the contriv- ing of & net that will be certain to land at least one. Then her machine comes in good and plenty. She plans so that she may have the entirc day to herself. There is every- thing in time, you know. And then she casts her eye about for guests. For some #eason or other she manages to exclude well the really, truly bud. Jealousy? Most certainly not. A mere chance, and no one would be unkind enough to fancy any- thing else, not even in a maliclous mo- ment. She always was philanthropically inclined and here is a most excellent op- portunity for it to come to the fore. And so it happens that her chosen few are from the ranks of the foriorn, the dreary and the drab. She has had enough of being the small- est frog In the puddle, and it is no trick at all to figure out how much easier it Wwill be to shine in the midst of dull col- ored wall flowers, and shine she does, for her new found confidence in herself fresh- ens and brightens her up as though the elixir of life had been gently sprinkled over her. Year by year gently slips away and when she is positively certain that a lord of creation is sitting up and taking notice her main trouble is in curbing her SECTION OCT.11,1903 VOIRF> TORN.S GENERALIY [ 1AL VIERP TRLLLS, impatience, which is stronger than that of a sixteen-year-old school girl. Bo ye who are of uncertain age cheer Act as you were worth fifty million’ dollars and had half of San Fran- cisco to boot. You see, there really lsn't a good nor sufficlent reason for being downhearted. If you cannot land the ob- Ject of your hand and heart high and dry at home, don’t get discouraged, but in- stead take to the woods and after a bit AT FULL SPEED. of artful and innocent work you can eventually tree him. That’s one kind of a girl who uses an automoblle. It's a snare and a delusion, but such a delightful one, forsooth, that one never dreams of lis evil designs. Miss Uncertainty uses it distinctly and de- cldedly as a business proposition, and it necessary even goes to the expense of And it's worth every penny buying one. laid down. Jt would never odcur to one person in 4 thousand that the delightful little outfgs were for anything other than the mad pursuit of mere pleasure. Then there's the girl “who loves to get even.” She's a nice sort of a purry kitten that sings and snuggles when the hand strokes the right way, but beware of he'r if there is any ruffiing going on. There's always a peck of trouble to pay. Under the purr, and not far distant, either, Is a good sized growl; the soft paws are only & covering for sharp, cruel claws, and if things fail to suit her ladyship and her fre is sufficiently aroused she will fight tooth and nail, and she isn’t the least bit particular about sticking to any given set of_rules, either. beautiful sort of a plaything, but it's too bad she can't be caged up now and then and kept there until sh learns better manners. At least until s repents at lelsure. Apparently her one object in life is to spite somebody else, and she isn't always overly scrupulous about her methods of procedure. ‘Generally she is a small woman and she most certiinly is possessed with a nature that fits her stature. If Mrs. So-and-so gave a luncheon and in a fit of absent- mindedness forgot to write her name on the place cards, Miss Nasty-nice promptly makes up her mind to give her one better, than she sent. So, with the abllity of a general, she plans to celebrate on her friend’'s first reception day. BShe’ll show her a thing or two. Just waitl So she resorts to her car, too. In order to completely insure her success she takes those who are to assist in recelving and bundles them off to the country ostensibly for a breath of fresh air. And she makes it her business to see that they get It. She runs so far away with. them and manages one delay after another so clev- erly that the last ghost of & chance at being home on time fades and passes away. It does no good to fume and storm and tear hair, for people haven't as yet learned the art of being in two places at once, and behold, revenge is undeniably hers. : Not content with playing havoc gener- ally with other peoples’ affalrs, this char- itable, love-your-neighbor soul will, if she can without making it too apparent, take a rap at some one else who at some time or other had inadvertently blinked the wrong eye. Purring softly, she hands the rules and regulations of auto touring about, laugh- ing at the same time, “We don’t want to disgrace ourselves as the Smiths did. I'm sorry for her, but wasn't her pass- ing the President’s car too absurd for anything?"’ Oh, she's a wizard is this Miss Nasty- nice. We all know her. And don’t we all hate her right cord’ally? To all out- ward appearances she has nothing but sympathy to extend and unquestionably she is very sweet about forgiving stupid blunders. Oh, yes, that's all very fit and fine, but unfortunately the sweet- ness lasts just about a minute and a half by actual count. Slowly and almost im- perceptibly it lessens and lessens until, nine times out of ten, but the bitter re- mains. It's the cleverest way of knocking, and truly the woman who is an adept at it deserves a flowery palm. For really it requires no mean amount of skill and tact to say ili-natured, viclous things with a smiling face and alwavs obtain the desired results. Yet deliberately and with malice of forethought she lays her schemes and then sits back and watches them mature with grim satisfaction. She is the kind of a woman who means, although she is not frank'enough to say it, “a choo for a chop.” She doesn't entertain with a feeling of hospitality but rather of decided hostility. But, thanks be, there is still another class of girl and it is'she that does our hearts good and that makes us feel as though life really was well worth living. Shé's as full of life and high spirits as an egg is of meat and she gathers her friends about her because she is glad to be alive. She's somewhat like the woman whose friend said of her, “If her home were on fire she might pot invite you in, but un- der all other circumstances she is the very soul of hospitality.” Life is such huge joke to her apd the world such & ~ CLIMB ONER T207 AT, — Gony 1 BACX DoaR ' beautiful, bright spot' to live In that all she wants is to be merry and ia hee bubbly way she fairly radiates happiness about ber, for moods are far more com tagious than anything eise under the sain. ning sun, if you did but know it. And the disease is a dangerous ome, too, If allowed to go om and on without being properly doctored. Those who are blessed with bright, sunshiny thoughts that bring only harmony and happiness are a delight and a joy forever, but mood- iness generally means numerous visits from his satanic majesty, the king of the “blue devils,” and the attapks grow stronger and more fixed until there are indelible scars.on the mind and body that never can be erased. This frolicsome soul ian’t one of"those girls who step out ofibed, with the wrong foot and is surly and cross all the rest of the day in consequenge. More than Mkely, in bher sagunass te B W aad carrylng out her latest ides, she falls out head over heels and races to the ‘phone to ask Tom, Dick or Harry to take & spin with her. There rarely is anything definite about her gutings. She Is too light and airy for that, but for the very reason that the luncheon is not carefully chosen and every moment of the day carefully sched- uled there is always & heap more fun on the tapis. The very uncertainty—the salt of 1fe—keeps the animation at top notch. She is such a jolly, rollicking girl that the smaller matters of etiquette fall te bother her In the slightest. What earthly difference does it make to her whether the Smiths, the Browns and the Joneses live up to certaln rules and expect thefr friends to go and do likewise? If one of the guests climb over the side of the tram irstead of running around and sedately going in the back door as she undoubt- edly should, Miss Hostess wisely lets it go at that, for unless the chaperom de- mands more dignity and the countryites more conventionalities there is no occoa- sion’for raising & crop of gray hairs. In short, it's a merry, merry world, and the only trouble is that youth is too fleeting. This girl is a born bostess. Instead of cutting and drying & programmse and moving by clockwork, she leaves her guests absolutely fetterless. In fact, her motto is to entertain no ome, but to leave all to come and go as they please. On her jaunts there is no one to grumble If & chap and a girl think there is a fine bit of scenery just over the brow of the hill neither is there any one to make unkind remarks if some sleepy soul curls up un- der = benign tree and visits the fairies In Nodland. For isn't that what they are there for? To have a good time, each one in his own pet way? Rigkt early In her life she learned that more depends on the making or the mar- ring of the day than mere bread and jum, although she soon discovered the philosophy of having & well filled larder, for it is a hard fact that a full stomach, whether it be masculine or feminine, goes a long way toward happiness and con- tentment. Hospltality, or so-called k there will always be, and the subtle art of playing the hostess, the least easily ac- quired of all arts, will forever remain as evasive as it i3 now. There are no set rules that govern the grounds of hostship, but the girl who would gather and keep her friends about her, whether it be Im her own home or In Mother Nature's playground, would do well to ask herself one question when she Is planning other’s enjoyments: “Who am I that I should dare to selegt all my friend’s pleasures?* Probably sle will come to the edifying conclusion that she is only about deuce high, and ever after those whom she en tertains will be the most envied of the em~ vied—the freest thing on the face of thy edsia