You Are a Guest

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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