The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-11
A TERRIBLE TROPHY
The Young Lady Who tainted at
Sight of a CoCoanut.

The United States naval officers who
sail about the world gather and send
home many remarkable bits of bric-a-
brac. Those who have had homes IN
Washington for many years have stored
their parlors with quaint things that
make you feel on an afternoon call as
if 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
rendeS house furnishing very artistic.
The daughter of an old naval of1i'.r
has her boudoir decked out with Curl
Osities from Australia and the South
Sea Islands. Her largest rug is made
of half a dozen kangaroo skins. An
other is that Of a fine, large panther.
Last winter the young lady, who had
been one OF the fast set in society. de-
clded 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 III old
tar in his crew at work Oh a motto to
be hung In the young lady's bed room.
A more CHASTITY thing was never de-
ylsed. 1t is made entirely of teeth
baby's teeth-said to have been picked
up after an orgie held by one of the
c~annibalistic tribes in the South
Pacific. The motto reads:
At the punch bowls gildeI brink
Let my thirsty MUIiie think
What they say in Japan:
First the man takes II drink;
Thu drink takes a drink
Then the drink takes the man."
This wise and witty saying stands
out in letters about an inch long all
made of cleaning white teeth sewed on
a velvet background. When the young
lady received it she at once hung it
over her dressing bureau, where it is
the last thing she sees AZ night and the
first 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 iu the middle OF
the window, where the light gives it a
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
thick lips on the broad mouth are
slightly parted, showing u 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 lie 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 off 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
the young 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.
She 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
pltting, 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 full
length on the floor. 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 to another and said
ibid he get inP"
''Get in? Who? What?"
1.-THE mani the man! That horrld
hldeous negro"
The big brother and the reformed
young society woman exchanged
g~iances, the fond aunt looked from one
face to the other and back to the poor,
trembling Chicago girl.
There was no man." said the big
brother.
ut was only a cocoanut," said the
Washington cousin. Just a cocoanut
carved by one Of papa's sailors to look
like the head of a savage. Didn't you
see the arrowspn
The Chicago girl had tainted too
20 to take in details, and an hour
later she examined the savage" and
the arrows with a good deal of in
terest.
Since that first scare she has slep,
every night within ten feet of the CO.
coanut 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