Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — WAR ON UNINVITED GUESTS [ARTICLE]

WAR ON UNINVITED GUESTS

English Woman Asks Friends to Bring Cards of Invitation—Police Eject Undesirables. London. —The experiences of the London hostess, who has requested all guests invited to her dance at a London hotel to bring their cards of invitation in order to exclude uninvited guests, have been related. : The lady in question, a.very wellknown London hostess, has suffered such annoyance at the hands of uninvited guests that nowadays she never holds any large function without first taking strict precautions to render the presence of these undesirable persohs practically impossible. “Some time ago I had my eyes opened to this scandalous practice in a most unpleasant fashion,” she said. "I had occasion to give a dance at a London hotel, to which I invited 230 guests. I had very carefully checked these figures before the dance began, yet before it was halfway through the manager of the hotel informed me that there were already over 400 people in the rooms who claimed to be my guests. "Last year I heard of two ladies—no one seemed personally acquainted with them—who had attended uninvited practically every dance or function of the season. Consequently I have been driven to adopt precautions which, as truly pointed out a short time ago, had become absolutely neoessary for the exclusion of these people. . “So I have asked all guests invited to a dance I am giving at a hotel this week to bring their cards of invitation. "Th'e hotel management has promised to have three men at my disposal, whose duty it will be to take the name and address of every person who comes claiming to be my guest, but is without an invitation.”