MAKING FEIENDS. 
of their company^ Should he send out for a cab for 
Mr. Strange? but that gentleman said^ no, he would 
w^aik. “Walk!” says the host. “Absurd, oh! but 
you foreign gentlemen are so ■ peculiar, and have such 
odd ways. You will be sure to catch cold, and then 
blame me.’^ Wheil’Mr. Strange got out into the street, 
he felt quite reliever! from the stifling heat of the 
rooms inside. It was a floe dry clear night, the bright 
full moon shining -clear over-head, and he was somewhat 
amused at his host’s idea that a coffee planter would, 
catch cold on a night like this. He feels for his pip© 
and tobacco pouch, which had been left in his great- 
coat pocket, pulls them out, and commences to smol' 
with great relish, for he had had no pipe the wholo 
evening; and his pleasant free-and-easy walk home 
drives off all the feeling of stiffness that had beea 
cramping him the whole evening. 
The next afternoon, when strolling along the street,' 
he passes a number of ladies and gentlemen whom he 
met and conversed with the evening before, but they 
take no notice of him, don’t see him. He accountsi 
for this possibly from the change of dress, although 
he cannot undersiand how he should know them, and 
they not him, for the difference in dress is mutual. 
At last he sees, coming straight on in front. Miss 
Stiff; nearer and nearer they approach. Surely she 
musfc recognize him. He had been told, it is the 
“ custom of the country” always to allow the lady 
the option of recognizing the gentleman, and unless 
she does so it is not “the thing” for the gentleman 
to take any notice of her. His hand is ready and 
prompt to lift his hat, he looks earnestly at Miss 
Stiff, but she is looking earnestly also at some object 
far in advance, she does not see him and passes by. 
Mr. Strange feels very sad. He had done his best to 
entertain Miss Stiff the evening before, and they had 
become rather friendly, so far as her stiffness would 
permit, and now she had passed him, given him the 
dead cut, cut direct. What could he have done to 
have offended Miss Stiff? While brooding over this, 
his companion comes up asks him why he is looking 
so thoughtful and gloomy and is told of the cut 
direct just received. “Out!” says his companion. 
“Nonsense, it is just the custom of the country. 
It is quite an understood thing that, when people meet 
at an evening party, their acquaintance is only for 
that evening, and does not extend into the next day.” 
“But,” replied Mr. Strange, “you say I must make 
friends, and if what you say is correct, how am Ito 
make them ? What is the use of meeting and becoming 
acquainted with people of an evening, if the next day 
they take no notice of you?” His comj)anion explains 
