A HOST’S STRATEGY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 8

A HOST’S STRATEGY.

FOR GOTTEN DINNER PARTY. . An attractive side of that fascinatmg anomaly that we call human nature was revealed on Tuesday evening ( sa J s the Star) in one \>i Auckland s outlying suburbs, where life more closely approximates to village conditions. There was to be a little dinner at a pretty bungalow on the hill, for which invitations had been issued a week previously and the chosen guests had responded in grateful terms. On Monday, however, the hostess had to leave home suddenly and hasten country wards on urgent private business. She left strict injunctions behind to cancel all invitations to the projected dinner, and her husband promised on bis word of honour as a- faithful spouse to see that it was done. But Sla-s, immersed in business cares or .delighting in 'his freedom, he forgot. When Tuesday night came he was sitting partakiim or his lonely bread and cheese, when knocks at the door reminded him of his social responsibilities. Succeeding events demonstrated infinite resource and a mastership of strategy ■ commensurate with his local popularity The shops were shut, .and food supplies were scarce. He showed his guests to a separate apartment, -and then got busy on the ’phone among the neighbours, to whom he .stated his case, lhe response was immediate. (Feminine hands answered his S.O.S. with rX’ rO T? “***« vegetables and puds’;, n H l s taWe was-set, his kettle a fir 4f d h,s <( g uest « - were ushered to L?/ s P read - ’ When the facts of the case were known the jovial host did not lack sympathy but he disdained it, and all settled Mown to a most enjoyable evening, the .'host eoiisidering that he had demonstrS once more man s superior organising power even in a woman’s domfin and the unchanging charity of human nature to a brother in distress