The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-21
Bless Their Economical souls.
Fror n. WasIinqton Post

From the Warrington Post
A very charming lady VINO lives out in
Iowa was recent. insen correspond TO the
"rhe Geutleme D." at III per TO be
gi 'en iu her city. On. y few days notice
was given to her and she feared sac C I'll
not do tho subject justice In that time. But
she had q lady friend in Washington in
whose ability she had full conf fence, so she
telegrsphed to her TO help her out
Now, the women-bless thsir economical
5 uls-are, as you know, always DESTROYS to
bring their kilograms within ten words, so
this one wrote I'd scratched ami pruned
a d trimmed until this is what her message
finally became
"Gsn'lemsn. Send brief response to it by
next mail"
That seemed to her TO be clear enough,
and 50 it was. But by the time it reached
Washington, however it had undergone a
cha igs-tde least speck OF a change, to be
sure, but cha Igs nevertheless. II read:
Gentlemen send e brief response to it by
next mail"
Now 1T was the Washington lady's turn.
She might have sent a tslegra asking
what 1t meant, bubbles her economical
soul, too--shs diln't She just gaze up
everythi * else and sat and read AMI pol-
dsrsd and did her level best to inwafdly
digest
Gentlemen send brief response to It by
heart. Then she ordered a carriage that
cost So an hour and spent the afterno On
going among her friends aid working them
into all sort Of terrible suspicious alb ut 1t.
Tat event z SIZE missel her Dime forgot
it while working ou5 the deep AID awful
mystery Of those dreadful gentlemen who
'ere DING t. seal as J1n'e to sit" what
ever lit" m git be, by the next mail-for-
hsr dinner and had a hopping hea l.
che half the night. When she lost herself
in ftful sleep great bands of gentlemen
appea cd before her in her dreams
with wnis GERS, gentlemen, without whiskers,
gentlemen with one eye each 10 the mid lie
Of the forehead, gentlemen with six legs
like spiders, gentle ne wi brief responses
on their Shoulders instead Of heads, gentle
men who came in by the next mail anl
evapor ated, gentlemen W changed into
croc ,diles while she was look ng at them.
1t was drea ful night that plor woman
passed on account Of those ten words of
Jeleg aphic mystery.
Next morning she felt as If the whole
thing mad been dream. She BIZ her finger
and assured herself sac was awake. Then
>he found her poe iet-w tic l., by the way,
was retty coed pisce Of anetuer detect
i've work-and drew out the telegram.
Tuere it was just as it had been the d ~ be-
fore-not sylla lie chAnged-"Geltle neu
send brief Response to it by next mail"
s spent 50 cents for a postal glide and
another so cent 70 q railway guide. She
hoped to learn when the next mail would
arrive from Iowa, but of course she didn't.
Better mathe aticiads THAI she We aid
down railway guides 18th just sense enough
left to lay tnem down.
But why vex the I'll Of the reader with
ali that vexed this po)r woman's jula For
three long, wealy weeks she struggled ID
guggled and ruggled over that telegra n
until she beEa D. drool aud her frie Ids
begal to wonder whether she was too in.
durable to fit the incuraole word.
Finally letter came from Iowa. There
was very little in the letter-just brief
to, it waS-but there wa5 postscript
longer than tbs one, and at the end Of it
was paragraph, saying:
81 am glad you didn't send that response
to the toast of The Gentlemen, for we have
concluded not to have the supper and am
so glad tn t you didn't trouble yourself
about it,"