RESPECTABLE EVENING PARTIES.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2870, 27 April 1878, Page 4

RESPECTABLE EVENING PARTIES.

The Bailie's curiosity was aroused last week by seeing an advertisement in the! papers to the effect that "a violinist, was open for engagement at respectable evening parties." What could this eniquiring violinist mean? Are there some, evening parties that are not respectable? Distrusting the ability of his own unaided ■ intellect to solve the mystery, the magistrate consulted some friends of his who are acknowledged authorities on social subjects, with the following result :— Miss Lucy Yolage does not consider a party respectable unless there are at least two male guests to each girl. This is what she calls balance of power. Mr Peter Cordonbleu is of opinion that a party is not respectable unless there is a regular support. He considers a good j square meal necessary not only to the comfort, but to the very existence of mankind, and looks with undisguised contempt on the trumpery device of stale ! sandwiches and rubbishly sponge-cake, j Miss Amy Millefleurs would never! dream of calling a party respectable if she were expected to dance quadrilles in the lobby after the room was full. She does not think she was born to blush unseen in a lobby, or to waste her sweetness on an umbrella stand and a hat rack. Mr Jack Grumpington says a party is not respectable if the hostess is continually bothering him to dance with girls he doesn't care a rap about. If a fellow prefers to lean against the doorway why the dicken3 can't people allow him to lean against the doorway ? : Miss Lottie Checkering would disdain to call a party respectable unless th]e carpets are up and the doors off ttie hinges. Those trifling little carpet hops are a. positive nuisance. » Mr Jnck Lushington certainly would not call a party respectable if the cups that cheer consisted of eighteenpenny claret and petroleum champagne. On the contrary, under these circumstances he would be inclined to call his host a confounded swindler. Miss Priscilla Wallflower does not call a party respectable if waltzing is allowed. The way girls in bur days permit themselves to be—Miss Priscilla blushes to uso the expression—hugged indiscriminately, and the brazen effrontery with which they will sometimes even ask for "just one more," positively make Miss Priscilla's blood run cold. — Glasgow Bailie.