Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-08-18
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D0duClIul young lduy In AlCOOna, a tem-
perance girl, who has pair Of eyes that
sparkle SO that stranger would think she
was winking when she looked up and smil-
ed. She would not wink for anything, but
eyes seems to draw up, and, well, if it isn't
a wink it is a counterfeit well calculated
to deceive. She was on the way to the
temperance lodge the other night and stop
ped at soda fountain to get a glass of
soda, and when the clerk asked what fla
yor she would have, she looked up at him
and smiled, and said, 81 will leave that to
your" The clerk said afterwards, when
her brother came in after the lodge was out
to whip him, that he would have sworn
she winked. 1t seems some of the custom
ers want little brandy in their soda, and
the proprietor told the clerk when anybody
winked and looked sort of cunning to put
a little brandy with the havering. He
thought she was one of the winking GUS
toners, and he thinks now he might have
put in a little too much. The Noble Duke
of the ledge refuses to accept the explana-
tion up to 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 desires 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 but that 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 pass word to the Outside
Sentinel, that worthy official, who is a
young married man, says she put her
mouth 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 also caused remark
in the ante-room by getting into her rega-
liza feet first, and pulling it on as she would
a pair of pants. The Outside Sentinel
says that strock him as being more unit
sual than the way she gave the pass word.
However, he let her into the inner room.
There is a hole in the inner door which
the applicant for admission puts her mouth
up to and whispers the pass word into the
ear of the inside Sentinel, who Is lady.
The soda girl put her mouth up to the
hole, after giving three distinct raps, and
as the ear of the Inside Sentinel covered
the hole on the opposite of the door,
the soda girl said, s'Set 'em up. So
da with perfu lhic) merry in it, AS
the regular quarterly pass word was
Strong drink is raging and the Inside
Sentinel smelled liquor on the breath of
the applicant, she, thought. some saloon
character was trying to get into the lodge.
so she drew her stuffed club, the badge of
her Office, and opened the door. Seeing
that it was member, the guard let the girl
in, after reprimanding her for her levity,
and the girl marched to the middle of the
floor little shaky in the legs. The custom
is for member on entering, to go to the
middle Of the floor, look at the Grand
Worthy Chair Holder. and place the right
index finger to the right side of the nose
and keep it there until the chairman re-
spends, when the newcomer takes seat.
The girl. instead, placed her thumb to her
and took seat beside the Chaplain, and
put her feet upon the desk of the good
man. IF q large 6re-cracker, loaded with
bourbon Whiskey, had exploded in the
lodge-r0om, it would not have created
more CONSERVATION. The Chaplain faint
ed. the Worthy Chairman declared re-
cess, and the members all gathered around
the sister whose face was flushed. Her hair
was scrambled, caused by taking off her
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frizzeS were around on her left ear, and
one bang was on the back of her neck,
while the place where the hair was parted
ran across her head from ear to ear. Her
brother came up and put her feet from off
the desk and asked her il she had been run
over by wagon or chased by a dog. Every
body smelled the liquor, and the Chief ac-
cusing her of having tempered with the
soul destroying beverage which steals away
the brain, she told him he was s'prevar-
Indicator, y and hit him on the ear with
gavel. The sisters tried to get her to go in
to the ante-roOm and soak her head, but
she said she wanted to ride the goat, and
she took a run and jump and sat upon ia
bic as though it was a side saddle, and
laughed SO loud that the brothers and sis
tiers thought she would disturb the wor-
shippers in saloon not fer away Finally
the choir struck up the tune, stCold Wa
ter, Bright Water" and the soda girl sung,
johnny Fill up the BOWL and tried to
put her thumbs in the arm-hoIes of her
vest and walk like Pat Rooney. The brother
finally got her to 60 home, and now itisa go
as-you-please between the girl and the drug
clerk and the proprietor and the girls bro.
Their, as to who is to blame. She says if she
is forgiven for this she will never swallow
another glass of soda until it is analysed
by a competent chemist. The lodge-is all
broke up about it. because outsiders are