THAT WELCOME GUEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16987, 10 March 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)

THAT WELCOME GUEST.

(By

DAISY 15. FOX.)

tread tho way towards being a welcome guest. It's the way with signposts pointing to self-forgetfulness, consideration for others, adaptability. Vera is always popular. I can’t j think how she manages it,” said a I pretty, consequential little blonde the j other day. I can’t get the invites I she does, even though I angle ever ] Of course not! I could have told i my little blond© friend that she had j yet to digest the fact that folk do not : learn fully to appreciate us until, to a very great extent, we cease to appreci ato ou rse Ives. The welcome guest is she who, knowing how well a new and much practiced song suite her voice, will yet push it aside for some popular, even slightly hackneyed, favourite asked for by her fellow guests. Who, well aware of the power of her own singing, will yet sympathetically accompany some lesser “ star ” and do her utmost to give the other girl her chance. She is tho woman who, realising the hundred and one things which require the personal attention of a hostess, will start on her visit armed with many a suggestion for those quiet games which will keep old and young amused and happily entertained. There is one point about which she will be especially careful. She will never, in the presence of less illustrious guests than herself, talk airily of tho great folk with whom she is in the habit of flkixing. Such conversation is apt to make quiet people shrink completely into their most silent selves. Rather she will endeavour to find a common liking which she can share with them—a love of country walks—the success of this year’s roses —-a like enthusiasm for amateur theatricals.