Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-29
ToMMY,s DIPLOMATIC TACTICS.
How Re Induced Rafs Sister to Go L the Football Game.

| How Ike Induced His Sister to Go to l the Football Game.
 "No, Tommy" said his sister, "Ill ne 1 give you fifty cents to pay to see the football match; you have seen number of baseball l games in the past summer and think that if l enough"
 Tommy was dejected for while and kept 1 quiet and his twenty-three- year-old sister 1 began to congratulate herself that she had l silenced him for time at least, and she would not be bothered by his teasing. Sud- denly Tommy'a face brightened and he l turned toward his sister, but she was busy with some needlework and was all uncon- scious of the thoughts that were running through his mind. After while he went over and stood beside her and watched her fingers as they dextrously knitted the bright colored yarn into fancy mats and things without names for church fair to be held in short time.
 There was silence for while, only broken by the far-away notes of harsh hand-or gan as it ground out, in spasmodic time, the "BoulaDger March," in the next block. At last Tommy broke the silence and said softly: "Do you remember Mir. Nicefellow who used to talk to you so much at the hotel in Saratogas"
 "Yes, Tommy. Whyf"
 'I guess you haven't seen him recently, have youa"
 "No, Tommy. When we moved last spring I believe he was in Europe, and I did not know his address, so did not send him card. What makes you ask the question:"
 "Oh, nothin' much; only the last time I went to the Polo Grounds to see the New Works beat the Chieagos he was there in the grand stand and talked to me. He said he attended nearly every game. He had lady with him."
 "A lady, TommyF'
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 "Ohl (relieved) You say he talked to you, Tommy"
 ''Yes; he said he thought I had grown a great deal since he saw me in Saratoga, and wanted to kuow how that good looking sister of mine was"
 "Go on, Tommy"
 "And then he said: Let me see, your sister Is about nineteen now, isn't shel' And said I guessed that was about your age.n
 'eWell" (softIy) ''Then be turned to the lady who was with him and asked her if she didn't remember I the lady who looked so pretty that night at the hop; the one, he said, who had brown l hair and wore lovely pale blue silk dress | that became her so well, and made the Rog- ! CTS girls so jealous-l guess he said the Misses l Rogers. And she said she remembered heI | quite we'll; and then she turned to me and 1 said: Are you the young lady's brotheri
  | to be proud of having such nice sister, an I said was, an it made me feel good when 1 I see how all the young ladies in the block 1 were jealous of her" l ''Tommy" (severely.) l "Well, couldn't help it, 'cause I know iti so-"
 l "Tommy" (mildly.) "An' then MT. Nicefellow told the waiter 1 to bring glass of soda water, an asked 1 me II 1 didn't want some peanuts, an said l l didn't mind, an he bought me some, an just then Buck Ewing made home run, an | Mir. Nicefellow said he guessed the Chicagot couldn't play bali, and he'd rather see { game of football any day, especially between l the college elevens, an he said he hoped would be at the football games this fall, an 1 wanted to know if you liked athletic sports an said guessed you did, but you had SC many other things to attend to, visiting sicl people an making things for the poor heath ems in Africa, an'-"
 "When did you say the football game wa to be played, Tommy"
 con Saturday, an'-"
 "Tommy (hesitatingly), would you like tt take me to see the game if buy the tick ets9"
 "why, cert"
 Then she kissed him and told him h. needn't say anything about their going, ant Tommy moved toward the door. When h. got outside he drew a long breath and ex claimed to himself: Gee! What a whop | per! But it workedin
 Meeting Queen Victoria Unawares.
 Scotch Letter to the Boston Herald
 The Queen drives daily, but never till in the afternoon, and then, for the mos part, in her own or her neighbours forests and not on the highroad. And the etiquett of Deeside is peculiar. Whoever may b chance meet the Queen on these excursion will do well to behave as if they had not me her, nor seen her, nor let her see him. H will get behind rock or tree, or otherwis as best he may make himself invisible, an act as if he had neither eyes to see, nor ear to hear Such is Her Majesty's wish; pel fectly understood of those who live in he vinieinity, and studiously 6beyed. You ma be going to dine at the castle that evening reason the more why you should sink into th earth sooner than put Her Majesty under con pulsion to recognize your existence when hs 2 soul longs for solitude. , If, on the other hand, the passsr-hy ]