Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-25
4 NICE rsEDscAnEyr.

4 NICE PREDlCAMEyT.
Beaver Dam is one of the
greatest places for jokes that can
be found in a days ride. The
boys are now telling of a diabol-
ical joke that was played on a
young man. They have been
having a course of lectures there,
and the young man has acted on
a committee that has taken charge
OF the lectures, and been very
efficient. The last lecture was
given by Ann Eliza Young, one
OF the relicts of the late lamented
Brigham Young. She was at the
hotel, and there was also a lady
there who was travelling for q
corset factory, taking measures of
people and having corsets made
that fit better than those sold at
stores. 1t was the dnty Of the
young man to go to the hotel and
take the lecturer to the hall, but
the boys put up a job to have the
hotel clerk send the young man 3
card to the room of the corset
lady, instead of to the room of
Mrs. Young, when he called. In
the meantime they had written
the corset lady that young man
who wore corsets wanted one
made to measure, and that he
would call in the evening. There
were so many men that wear
corsets that the buisness-lke lit
tie woman did not think anything
strange of it, and when the card
came to her door she told the
bell boy to show the gentleman
up. The young man went up to
the room, thinking he was being
ushered into the presence of Brig.
hams fractional widow. He
shook hands with the corset lady,
and hoped she was feeling well,
and she admitted that she was;
because, to tell the truth, business
was never better since she had
been on the road.
"From your general carriage,
l should judge you prefer one
that opens at the side" she said,
as she looked ut the young mans
fine manly frame.
Thinking she was speaking of
the hack be had at the door, to
take her to the hall, he said: Yes,
all the best people here prefer
those that open OH the side
Finally he said as he looked at
his watch, that it was almost
time for her to commence. She
said it wouldn't take blu. two
or three minutes.
please remove your coat and
vest, said she a. she, took up a
tape line, and looked around for
. pencil:
We suppose the cold perspira.
ton stood in great drops on the
young mans forehead. He is as
honest and square q man as ever
lived in Beaver Dam, and never
entertained thought of guile,
and it hurt him deeply to have a
woman he had never met before
act so familiar, aud he became
weak and faint, and leaned against
the mantel.
He locked at the lecturer, as
she came toward him with q tape
line in one hand, a note book in
the other, and a pencil in her
mouth, aud when she looked up
at him with business look and
said; Take off your coat he
turned pale, his knees trembled,
and, with . choking voice he
said:
Stand back, woman, stand
back! You do not know the man
you are dealing with. / have al>
ways striven to lead a different life,
and no woman can assail me
with imlnnity.'
The middle-aged corset can
vasser stood back aghast.
What on earth 10 the natter
said she.
matter enough, madame, when
. poor orphan goes to escort a
lecturer to the platform, the
forum, ma am, and be met by an
order to take off my coat and vest.
It 10 enough to make your late
husband, Brigham Young
sSir-r-r,' said the corset>maker,
when be got to Brigham, do you
wish to insult me? Have you
come here thinking I am . Nor.
mon? Twill ring the bell, air, and
have you thrown into the street.
| He told her to be calm, and be
| found out she was not Mrs. Young,
but . corset dealer, and then both
apologized, and be went down to
the parlor and found the lecturer
| and introduced himself.
i Wiping the Precipitation frou
his face the young man asked bel
| II she was sure she Was Mrs,
Young. She said she was mol
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