THE UNINVITED

GUEST.

HE woman who has kept

THE

house in the country through the asperities of the ruder seasons finds it strange that the only part of the year in which she could sit down and look Time in the face furnishes her acquaintance the opportunity of feeling that they cannot live any longer without seeing her, or pass by without stopping-of making her useful, in short, as the vehicle of their summer outing.

The weather may be the sultriest; the market may be meagre; the house - keeper may have poor help; she may desire to save her funds for other purposes. It is of no consequence: the city friend wants a season in the country, and takes it. This unsought guest brings with

Fig. 2.-DETAIL OF EMBROIDERY FOR TURKISH SCARF, FIG. 1. FULL SIZE.

FROCK FOR CHILD FROM 2 TO 4 YEARS OLD.-BACK AND FRONT. For pattern and description see Supplement, No. III., Figs. 17-20.

tion here, which is that the friends and acquaintances of the country home-keeping woman should wait for her to announce her pleasure in receiving them before volunteering their society. When the dweller by woods or sea, not perfunctorily, but of her own will and wish, asks her friend to come to her, and asks with urgency, then it is to be taken for granted that she means it, that the friend's coming is of more value than any external things; and in that case the friend should not fail her, but should feel that her mere presence is health and rest to the one that asks for it without hint or leading.

Many a country dweller has a home to which she would delight in asking friends-for its strong mountain air, for the fresh vigor of its sea smells, for the breath of its kine. But the circumstances that bar

her extra washing and ironing of table and bed linen, if no other, extra care about the house appointments, the necessity of table dainties which would have been dispensed with under other circumstances-for of course we are not speaking of those millionaire-hostesses who need not be aware of a guest, so easy is the path of their hospitality; she brings, too, heat and worry and expense, and not by any means always a welcome. The country dame feels she has been made a convenience, that her house is only a summer hotel, and that the whole thing is at the cost of the pleasure-taking which the rest of the year might have afforded.

There is one evident deduc

CROCHET FROCK FOR CHILD FROM

1 TO 2 YEARS OLD.

For description see Supplement..

EMBROIDERED MONOGRAM.

Figs. 1 and 2.-GENTLEMEN'S SHOOTING JACKETS.

For pattern and descriptions see Supplement, No. I., Figs. 1-10.

them out are sufficient to her, whether the slender purse, or the grumbling provider, or the person of the family whose shortcomings must be kept in darkness, or division in the household to be hidden, or want of strength, or fear of making the burden heavy on others, or anything else imperative; and her friends love her better when they leave her alone, and do far more for her happiness than when they take pains to see her unsolicited and unrequired. Every one has a right to the seclusion of home, and that seclusion is something which should not be broken in the first instance save by the mistress of the house.

CHILD'S OVERALL APRON. For pattern and description see Supplement, No. XIV., Figs. 53-57.