Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-07
NON-TEMPERANOE D
Morrifying Experience of a Ten,s
perance Girl. Who Drank a
Glass of Soda With q
wink In 1T,
From the New Haven Union.l

temperance girl-who has q pair OF
ewes that sparkle so that a stranger
would think she was winkiDg when she
looked UP and smiled. She would not
wink ior anything, but when she smiles
the sewage around her eyes seem to
draw up, and-well, If it isn't a wink it
is well calculated 10 deceive. She was
on the way to he temperance lod ge the
other night. aud stopped at q soda
fountain to get a glass OF soda, and
when the clerk asked what favor she
would have, she looked up at him and
smiled and said: 81 will leave that to
you.' The clerk said atterward, when
her brother came in alter the lodge was
out to whip him, that he would have
sworn she wiDked. 1t seems that some
OF The customers want q little brandy
in their soda, and the proprietor told
the clerk that when anybody winked
and looked sort of cunning, to put In a
little brandy with the favoring. He
thought she was one Of the wlnklng
customers, and he thinks now he might
have put in a little too much. The
noble duke of the lodge refuses to &C.
ccpt the explanation up this time,
though it Is thought he will get over his
annoyance before the next meeting, and
let the girl remain a member, If she de-
sires to do so, though she says she does
not see how she can ever look the
brothers and sisters in the face. They
tell two or three stories about it, but the
version OF the grand worthy chaplain Of
the lodge seems to be accepted as the
true one
The soda began to take effect on the
girl just as she got into the ante-room.
and instead OF whispering the password
to the outside sentinel, that worthy indi-
vidual, who is a young married man,
says she put her mouth up to his ear
and bit it, and then threw her arms
around his neck. He would not have
cared so much about this, only his wife
was in the ante-room putting on her
regalia. The soda girl caused remark
in the ante-room by getting into her re-
gala feet first, and pulling it on as she
would a pair of drawers. The outside
sentinel says that struck HIM as being
more unusual than the way she gave
hlm the password. However, he let her
in the inner room. There is a hole in
the door which the applicant for admis-
sion puts her mouth up to and whispers
the password into the ear OF the inside
sentinel. who is a lady. The soda girl
puts her mouth up TO the hole. after
giving three distinct raps, aud as the
ear of the sentinel covered the hole on
the opposite side of the door, the soda
gill said, ''Set 'em up. Soda with
perfu-(hic)-mery in it." AS the reg
ular quarterly password was "Strong
drink is raging" and the inside sentinel
smelled liquor on the breath OF the ap.
plicant, she thought some saloon char
acter was try ing to get into the lodge
so she drew her stuffed club, the badge
of her office, and opened the door.
Seeing that 1T was a member the guard
let the girl.in, after reprimanding her
Tor levity, and the girl marched to the
middle of the floor, u little shaky In the
legs. The custom is for a member on
entering to 60 to the middle of the floor,
look at the grand worthy chairholder,
and place the right index finger to the
right side OF the nose, and keep 1t there
until the chairman responds, when the
newcomer takes a seat. The girl in.
stead placed her thumb to her nose and
wiggled her fingers, and went and took
a seat beside The chaplain and put hel
feet upon the desk in front of the good
man. If a large fire-cracker. loaded
with bourbon whisky, had exploded ir
the lodge room it would not have crea,
ted more CONSERVATION.
The chaplain tainted. the worthy
chairman declared a recess, aud thu
members all gathered around the sister
whose face was flushed. Her hair wa.
} scrambled, caused by taking off her ha
I without removing the %hairpins, he
~trizzes around her lett ear, and on,
bang was on the back OF her neck, W hill,
the place where her hair was parted RAJ
+ across her head from ear to ear. He
brother came up and put her feet dow
t off the desk, and asked herIt she had bee
run over by Il wagon or chased by a cog
: Everybody smelied the liquor, and whel
! the chief accused her OF having tampere
] wi tn the soul destroying beverage whic
steals away the brain, she tod him Ii
e was a ''prevar (hic)cator," and hit hir
i on the ear with a gavel. The sister
tried To get her INTO the ante-room all
e soak her head, but she said she wante
to rifle the goat, and she took u run an
jump and sat upon the table as thoug
it was q side saddle, and laughed $
o loud the brothers and sisters though
she would disturb the worshippers in
r saloon not far away. Finally the CHI oi
struck up the tune Gold Water, Brlgt
Water" and the girl sang "Jonny, Fl
h up the Bowl" and tried 10 put he
thumbs in the armholes OF her vest, an
walk like Pat Rooney. Her brothe
finally got her to 60 home, and now it
v a go-as-you-please between the dru
clerk and the proprietor as to who is
blame. She says if she is forgiven fc
d this she will never swallow anothe
glass OF soda until it is analysed by
d competen! chemist. The lodge is a
broken up about it, because outsider
are talking the affair over.
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