The Guest Room

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 10

The Guest Room

QNE of the arguments against on, modern modes of living, especi ally the apartment mode, is the .Inch of bedroom space. When every extra room means more rent, naturally peo pie do not want to pay for a guest room which is seldom occupied. Vet something of charm am. graciousness has gone out of the work: when you cannot ask a friend ti stay overnight without upsetting tin whole household, perhaps somebodi has to sleep on the couch in the livingroom or a bed has to be made up in the dining-room or something of that sort. The guest is uncomfortable mentally at the thought of the trouble she is causing and maybe she is uncomfortable physically as well, if slit is the one on the improvised bed! The -old-fashioned hospitality was a generous, unpremeditated sort oi thing. Whole families sometimes stayed for months with sisters oi cousins. People expected to have guests. “The latchstring” was always ready to pull. It did not make any difference whether or not you hat! warning of a guest’s arrival or whether it was a “surprise.” Vou wet coined him just the same. Nowadays, some women say they do not want friends to “drop in” to spend the evening or to make a call without telephoning first to make sure it is convenient. How times have changed!