DONTS FOR THOUGHTLESS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 14

DONTS FOR THOUGHTLESS

There are many people who cause their friends incessant worry and trouble —it is not that they mean to annoy, it is simply that they do not think. Here are a few rules for you, should you bo inclined to impose on people. If you are wondering whether to ring up your friend and ask her whatever was the name of those people you and she met abroad last year—don't. [ If at lunch time you sit opposite a woman who admits that she is dead tired and you want to talk to her don't. If your friends are going away for a badly-needed holiday and you would like to ask them to meet some other friends of yours who live only fifteen miles or so from'their holiday spot— don't. If you assume that it is a mere nothing for a busy woman to rush about the town matching up materials for you —don't. If on being told over the telephone that your friend hasn't a spare-even-ing within sight just at present and you would still like to press her to name one —don't. And if you are one of the few idle people left and want to talk over the telephone to pass the time—please go and play with the cat. Animals become so much more affectionate when a.lot of notice is taken of them.

To iron settee and nrmelitih1 covers half-dry tlicm, iron the frills in the ordinary way, anil stretch them in tlicir correct places on to the furni t urt-, says an exchange. Then, with fairly hot irons, press" tlioni well.' I'lio padding in the furniture will act as a splendid ironing "board," the job will take only a tithe of the time, and you will be quite sure that they are hanging and fitting properly.