Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-02-15
a TERRIBLE TROPHY.
Tue Young Lady Who TAINTED at
sight OF n CocOanut.


sight OF n CocoAnut.
The United States naval officers who
SAL about the world gather and send
home many remarkable bits Of bric-a-
6rac- Those who have had homes in
Washington for many years have stored
their paTlOus with quaint things that
make you feel on an afternoon call as
II you were in a museum. 1t, Of course,
affords something besides the weather
TO talk about, and, when tastefully ar
ranged, a collection OF boomerangs,
bows, blankets, arrows, scalp-locks,
bowls, war clubs, skulls, lion skins,
tropical birds and such things may
render house furnishing very artistic.
The daughter OF an old naval officer
has her boudoir decked out with curl
Osities from Australia and the South
Se,. Islands. Her largest rug is made
of half dozsn kangaroo skins. An
other Is that of a fine, large panther.
Last winter the young lady, who had
bean one of the fast set in society, de-
cided to hold up, and took the pledge
in a quiet way. AS soon as her sire of
in the Pacific heard of 1t he set an old
tar IN his crew at work on a motto TO
be hung In the young lady's bed room.
a more CHASTITY thing was never de-
YIsed. 1t is made entirely OF teeth
baby's teeth-said To have been picked
up after an orgie held by one of the
cannlbalistic tribes in the South
Pacific. The motto reads:
At the punch bowls gilded brink
Let my thirsty Mollie think
W hat they say in japan:
First the man takes a drink;
The drink takes a drink;
Then the drink takes the man..
This wise and witty saying stands
out in letters about an inch long al,
made of cleaning white teeth sewed on
velvet background. When the young
lady received it she at once hung II
over her dressing bureau, where it is
the last thing she sees at night and the
hrst on waking.
But the most terrible thing in this
queer dormitory is what seems to be a
human head, pierced by three or four
arrows. The hideous object hangs by
an invisible fine wire in the middle OF
the window, where the light gives it
CHASTITY relief. The man-it is plainly
the head of a man, probably some
Island chief-has a shaggy name OF
hair and most repulsive features. The
slightly parted, showing row of big
white teeth and a lOllIng red tongue.
The big ears are slit after the man
ner of some barbarious tribes, and
there are what appear to be Sits and
scars cut in the cheeks. Passing up
through the neck and emerging from
the top of the skull at different points
are long, finely made arrows. pointed
with sheet iron filed Oft sharp and
nicely feathered at the other end with
white gulls' plumes.
The shocking trophy had not hung
long In the window before a cousin of
tte FoUng lady came home from
Chicago TO visit her.
The visitor was about the same age
as the Washington girl and the two
! occupied the same room.
The first evening after the Chicago
girls arrival, being quite at home in
! the house, she ran up stairs alone to
make her toilet for dinner.
Size had hardly reached the threshold
| of the bed chamber before there was an
ear-splitting shrek. The family below
rushed to the stairs. The big brother
of the family went up four steps at a
| bound. The matronly Old aunt came
| putting, holding her skirts in each hand.
| The Washington cousin, half suspect
| ing the cause of the alarm. followed
| When the room WAS reached the
| Chicago cousin was found lying at fun
| length on the door. unconscious and as
| white as death.
Restoratives brought the young lady
| TO in few minutes, when everyone was
eager for an explanation of her fright
| Her first remark as she opened her eyes
hardly served TO clear up the mystery.
Shuddering and gasping, she looked
about from one ID another and said ,
Did he get in2"
"Ge: in? Who? What?"
| 1.-The mani the man! That hOTrId
hldeous negro"
The big brother and the reformed
young society woman exchanged
| glances; the fond aunt looked from one
! face 10 the other and back to ths poor,
trembling Chicago girl.
There was no man." said the BIZ
| brother.
| 1T was only a cocoanut," said the
| Washington cousin. Just cocoanut
carved by one OF papa's sailors to look
like the head of savage. Didn't you
see the arrowsP'
The Chicago girl had tainted too
soon to take in details, and an hour
later she examined the savage and
the arrows with good deal OF in
| tereSt-
Siu-e that Grst scare she has slept
every night within ten feet of the CO.
| coduut man. but always on the further
side OF the bed from him.
Recently she became engaged to the
big brother, and she now feels COM
| parativelY safe in the house.