O Mamuut.dear, isn't it lovely that no one has come in for tea this afternoon? Not but that I always want people to drop in but I haven't really seen you for almost two days and I've some very important matters to discuss with you.
Are you having hot tea to-day?
certainly, we've lemon squash and iced tea as usual but I've been veading up on Hygiene and decided hot tea would be more healthful. Yes, I'm going to take it—to-day since there's no one in. I can't deny that the effect of hot tea on the complexion. is far from pleasing, no matter how beneficial may be to one's interior economy.
Dow't look so frightened, Mumsie dealing. I'm not going to ask you to change your style of _coiffure (though I do think you'd look just romantic with your hair like istler's Mother"), and even if I have been studying Italian art I don't want you to copy their draperies. I'm always reasonable, Mater. Of course I still think that if you had only worn that simple style of Greek robe I designed for you that winter we were reviving classic dances until people got used to it you would have made a real sensation. Of course I mean the right kind of sensation.
Speaking of gowns—I wish you'd remind me to tell amah to bring that pretty baby blue crepe over to your suite. Tt would look ever so much better on you. It makes me appear absolutely no age at all and can't afford to seem immature when I'm taking up such subjects as Civic Betterment and Higher Standards of Hygiene.
Isn't it splendid to see a young chap like Mr. Courtney going in so seriously for general uplift work? He talks so earnestly about the housing problem and raising the wsthetic standards of the masses by judiciously distributed band concerts. I should be a wonderful inspiration in his work, he said. a real dynamic force. It's very encouraging to have one's efforts appreciated, isn't it. Mamma? Sometimes I feel as if Doctor de Laney didn't realiz consider these topics. That's where we miss Professor Brown, He was always so whether he was toddling jone or giving you advice about servants, or discussing World Problems with me. Every now and then I used to get considerable help from him for my club papers. Not but what I vould have thought them out myself, but when one's friends offer suggestions it seems mean not to use them.
Shall I ring for more cakes Mamma? O surely. Though this article was saying we didn't need so much heat-producing sugar ip the summer. No dear, of course not, I wouldn't think of rationing you in your own house. I do think, however, that perhaps we ought to set a higher standard of hygiene in the house.
Not healthy? O Madam Precious-One, of course I wouldn't say you?
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