" You should then go
into the next room and wait ten or fifteen minutes. When you
return Mrs. Dollings will have disappeared, Mrs. Watts will be
looking fixedly at Mr. Watts, and Mr. Watts will be saying,
"Well, it's a silly game, anyway."
You and Mr. and Mrs. Watts can then have a nice game of
twenty-five cent limit stud poker for the rest of the evening,
and it would certainly be considered a thoughtful and gracious
"gesture" if, during the next two or three weeks, you should call
occasionally at the hospital to see how Mrs. Dollings is "getting
on," or you might even send some flowers or a nice potted plant.
FORMAL AND INFORMAL DRINKING
"Drinking" has, of course, always been a popular sport among the
members of the better classes of society, but never has the
enthusiasm for this pastime been so great in America as since the
advent of "prohibition." Gentlemen and ladies who never before
cared much for "drinking" have now given up almost all other
amusements in favor of this fascinating sport; young men and
debutantes have become, in the last few years, fully as expert in
the game as their parents. In many cities "drinking" has become
more popular than "bridge" or dancing and it is predicted that,
with a few more years of "prohibition," "drinking" will supersede
golf and baseball as the great American pastime.
The effect of this has been to change radically many of the
fundamental rules of the sport, and the influence on the
etiquette of the game has been no less marked.
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