PLAGUE OF UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9172, 21 August 1908, Page 3

PLAGUE OF UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

Hostesses are complaining this s-a-s>n more-than ever of the presence of uninvittd guests at their parties (•'ays the London ''Duly Mail"). Many young men, who ought to know better, think it rather a good j'->ke if they see an awning across the / pavement to enter a perfectly strange lnuse, trusting to being unrecognised in the crowd. The hustes3, as a matter of fact, cannot know all her guests by sight, particularly in the?e days of "brought man," and very rarely dares to risk offence by asking whether the presumed interloper has 'received an invitation. A duchess did this once, .The gue.-:t simply bowed and left, and sna found out later that she had practically turned out of her house the husband oc' one , of her best frien ].•=. who tnok mortal offence at the ins dt. The device ha 3 bein tried of having detectives oresent at large parties, out this doe-i not answer, as these uninvited guests are not of the criminal classes, but merely smart young men,' who do it "for a lark." Be.sidds, it happonel recently th».t two detectives wh> were present did not know one another, and each denounced the uthar to the hostess as an undesirable. Explanation was difficult. Thing 3 have now coma to such a pass that it is practically possible for any well-dressed and presencable man to walk into almo3t any bit, Bpuse when a party is going on, s?nu?f he behaves discreetly and ap< pears at home he may eat a good suoper, have a few glasses of champagne, and go away with one of his unknown host's cigars in his mouth. Tnis ia done every night of the season by a number of imprudent youtns, who are sometimes foolish enough to boast of their exploits.

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