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You Are a Guest
YOU ARE A GUEST
when going out on the street, to put
on a hat
perhaps a coat and gloves,
when going to a dinner party to wear a dinner or
evening dress.
never for an instant think of putting on a becoming
frame of mind.
it is far more important to put
headache or a worry out of view than to wear a new dress.
TAKING A HOUSE GUEST TO A PARTY
When an unexpected house guest arrives
it is quite
right for a hostess to telephone to ask if she may bring him to a
lunch or dinner at a large house, or to an afternoon party
it is much better when the party is a sit-
down one at a house of limited size
If that is too many of us,
would it be better for Henry and me not to come either?”
“Oh, no, I have plenty of
him.”
AND PLEASE KEEP YOUR GERMS TO YOURSELF
I thought I’d never be able
to get into my clothes I had such a chill (snuffle, sniffle, cough, cough).
My temperature is over 103. I really ought to have a medal for bravery!
I did not think it fair to give up.”
“Oh, my
dear, I’m so sorry! You ought to go straight back to bed.”
“How could
you be so thoughtless of others as to come here and breathe flu germs
on everybody!”
Therefore, although there is a fixed rule which makes it very dis-
courteous to break a dinner engagement, this rule is canceled when there
is any danger of scattering infectious air-borne germs.
Far more considerate to stay quarantined in one’s room unless nose
and mouth are both covered with a protecting mask of gauze. Feeling
utterly miserable themselves, they should try to keep others from feel-
ing likewise- you’d think!
The business angle of this subject is unhappily not so easily solved.
A clerk or stenographer or saleswoman or even a school teacher cannot