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THE BURTONIAN THE B RTO IA JU E 1935 WHICH TYPE ARE XOU? PRIZE ESSAY 1934 Bx Florence Wade 35 Yes some great exent must surely be golng to take place There was hustle and bustle hurrymg and scurryxng everywhere The house was m confusxon all the inmates were ln a turmoll And what was the cau e of all th1s dxsturbance Sunply that vlsxtors were coming The guests were wealthy people from a large city and sup posedly were hrgh ll'l socxety So very great preparatlons had to be made The table was adorned wnth the finest lmen the best sxlver and the very nicest china The furnxture ln the sxttmg room and ln the llbrary was arranged and rearranged to glYC the best effect The chlldren were cautloned over and over as un to keep thexr feet off the rounds of the chalrs to eat w1th thelr forks and not thexr hngers and hardest of all to remember that chxldren should be seen and not heard Now lf the Browns had not happened to be rxch and lf xt was not such a great honor to have them for vxsltors and rf If was not so very necessary to keep their frlendshlp so much fuss would not have been made That s 1t everyone seems to favor hxgh socxety and It 15 consxdered a great honor to be allowed to entertain some of the so called leaders of socletv But when that prlvllege is glven to one a great deal of fusslng results Everythlng must be rn perfect order Everyone must pretend to be better than he IS trying to pull the wool over hls although the hosts and hostesses would never admxt xt there IS really no pleasure xn If But l dont mean to be talklnq agunst rx h people 1n general Some of the best and greatest people ln thls world are rlch and by the ue of their money do a great deal of ffood for the world A person of that type 15 often a real guest he not only behaves properly but he has a pleasxng personalxty The amount of money one has should not and does not make any dzfference wxth real people and real frlends Some of the most charmlng guests I have ever known have certaxnly not been what you could call well off They would not bzmg my socnl prestxge or any publlclty because we entertamed them but they would llflilg more good cheer and sunshme than one could xmaglne Vvhat lf the table was only covered w1th an o1lcloth What 1f the pxllows were helter sl-'elter on the couch and the magazines scattered from one end of the house to another7 What xf there wasnt any roast lamb or creamed chlcken for d1Xlfl8l'7 No one became alarmed or worrled over the state of thmgs Instead as soon as the news was around a burst of sunshine seemed to enter the house We all felt hke sxngmg and jokxng and we dug lnto the necessary work xuth a wxll Such a guest was Uncle Frank He was not a real relatlon but belng a klndly man with no k1nsmen of hrs own he begged us clnldren to adopt h1m as our uncle Every summer he would come to VISIC us for a week He tended the baby he kept the older children out of mlschxef by telllng stones playlng games and most of all 1 5 4 f . . Y . - , I ' . ' .' g ' . . . G S . I 1, , 1 1 r , , 1 T I 1 A - V ' 7 , . . , . , V! Y V 4 I l '-' e , e . , c . . n . y . . uests' e es. The task of entertaimn becomes disavreeable and troublesome and, 4- H . . I . , . . ' k . c . . . . S . , U ' . . , z , . . y , - . Q . . H 1 I e Y 4 . f . x 1 -1 : A' ' ' s , , r B 1 Y . Q . , h . . . , c t , ' . I . . , , ' :. ' V ' . -' . Y . . ' . , i . ' . 1 ' ' . Q 4 . Y 3 l 3
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