Daily Republican., 1882-10-05
Trouble ia n Temperance Lodge
Caused by n Glass m Soda.

l Inere Is beautiful young ladV II
this city, a temperance girl who has a
pair of eyes that sparkle 50 that stran
ger ewould think she was winkinr
when she looked up and smiled. She
would not wink for anything, hui
when she smiles the selvidgt
around the eye seems to draw up, aud
well, if it isn't wink it is counter.
felt well calculated to deceive. She
was on the wav to the temperance
lodge the other utSht and Stopped at a
soda fountain 70 get glass Of soda, and
when the cle:k asked what flavor, she
looked up at him and smiled, and said
VI will leave that tC you"
The clerk said afterwards when her
brother came in after the lodge was out,
to whip him, that be would have sworn
she winked. It scems some of the custo.
mers want" little brandy in their soda,
and the proprietor toe the clerk when
anybody wtuked and looked sort of Gun.
ming, TO put lI5tle brandy wi h tie
lla7urug. He thought she was one of
me wlnktng customers, and he might
have put in little TOO much.
The Noble Duke of the 10 90 refused
time, though il il JnougpJ he will get
over his Annoyance before the next
meeting, ana lot the girl remain a mem
Der II she desires to do so, though she
says She does not see no ~ she IAN 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 ac-
cepted as the true one. The soda began
to take fleet on the girl just as she got
into the ante-rO0m, and instead ofI
whispering the password to the out
slie sentinel, that worthy official who
Ia Young plarried man, says she put
her mouth up TO his ear and bit it, and
lEen thew her arms around his neck. |
He wuuld not have cared 80 much
about this, only his wife was in the |
lnte'rOom putting on her regalia. The
soda girl also caused remark in the |
snte-room by getting into her regalia
5eet first, and pulling it on as she
would pair of drawers. The outside
sentinel says that struck him as being
more unusual than the way she gave
llm the pass word. However, no let
Ter into the inner room.
There is a hole in the lodge door
which the applicant for admission
'uts her mouth up TO and whispers the
'ass word into the ear of the inside
entlntl, who is lady. Tie soda girl
'ut her mouth up to the hole, after Civ
ng three distinct raps, and as the ear
1 the sentinel covered the hole on the
pposite side Of the door, the soda girl
aid: Set .em up Soda with perfu (hic)
lery in it,. Seeing that it was mem.
'er, the guard let the girl in, after rep
her for her levity, and the
irl marched to the middle of the floor
title Shaky in the legs. The custom
! for member on entering to 90 to the
llIdle Of the floor, look at the grand
'orthy chairAolde" and place the right
ldex finger TO the right side of the nose,
nd keep it there until the chairman
when the newcomer takes a
sat.
The girl instead, placed her thumb to
er uose and wriggled her fingers, and :
ent and took a seat beside the chap. l
in, and put her feet upon the desk iD
ont OF the good man. If large fire
'&cker loaded with Bourbon whiskey, !
I'D exploded in the lodge room, it 1
ould not have created more conster-
alton. The chaplain tainted, the p
orthy chairman declared recess, and L
le members all gathered around the :,
ster, whose face was flushed. Her y
lir was sCramb bled, caused by taking
her hat without removing the hair. 81
rs, her frizzes were around on her left C;
r, and one bang was on the back OF q
n neck, while the place where her
.ir was parted ran across her head
)m ear to ear.
Finally the choir struck up the tune
Gold water, Bright water" and the re
la girl tried to put her thumbs in th
8 armholes of her vest and walk like III
Congressman. Her brother finally nj
her to 60 home, and now it is "a GO -
you-please between the girl and the f.
lg clerk and the proprietor and the tn
l's brother, as to who is blame. She RI
rs if she is forgiven for this she will th th
yer swallow another glass of soda i[
til it is analyzed by a competent n, ID
3mist. The lodge is all broke up w
mt it, because outsiders are talking r,
affair over. "a