Unseasonable Visits.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 858, 10 August 1888, Page 4

Unseasonable Visits.

There are some people who seem to think that visiting is the most important duty of life. They come in at any hour of the day, usually in the morning, that most precious working-time for women, just to chat about something of not the slightest importance to the person visited. ' Oh, we are not going to detain you ; we won’t stop a moment,’ they say. While the hostess .listens and replies courteously to the conversation of her guests, her ear catches ominous sounds in tho kitchen; “she hastens out to see and remedy the mischief, and is quickly back again with the visitors, who remark on the loveliness of the day, and what a pity it is for any one to stay in tho house such weather. The hostess makes some polite reply aggreeing to tho statement made, but thinks of her duties in the other room waiting for her, how she should have them completed but for her untimely visitors, who,

through having remained fully an hour, always going, yet seem not any nearer to it than when first seated. After another hour spent in the same way, during which timo the nervous housekeeper has made many journeys to and from the kitchen, the guests leave, remarking that they couldn’t possibly remain any longer, and tho wearied woman goes back to her neglected work. Why such people, if they must visit, should choose the busiest part of the day to call upon women whom they know to have all they can do, toil as hard as they may, to get their work well done, in preference to those having more leisure at their disposal, like the riddle of the Sphinx, is hard to answer.