Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-02-15

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M ~ S but I fail to see any
rs In your letter. You
! say if I wouldn't
/ eMEL WA try to put on style
/ S and practice de-
/ g01f MN ceptiOn I would
! NK4.l5ZE get along better.
! 10 f4F#HszzzC- and not make such
- a fool of myself.
/ It's a good thing I have a dictionary
/ under my nose or I wouldn't have
! known what deception meant. As near
/ as can make out, IL meant that I lied
! Well, Fidola, L remembered that verse
! mother made us learn when we were
young and used to quarrel,
The wise VIII let their anger cool
! AT least before they write
/ and / am over it now. but If YOU had
| been here before my anger got below
| zero, by the Thermometer! I would
! have pulled your hair till there wouldn't
/ have been enough left to season hotel
hash. I told you it was Jane who lied
/ about the ROSTERS, and as for the
/ onions, if preachers are above taking
| them as charity, they can live on pork
/ without beans for all I care.
| Well, FidOla, I must tell you about
! the dOings here the past week. On
! Thursday morning the dOOr-beu rang,
( and Sophia Jane went to see who was
| there and found the following invita-
/ ton on the stOOp:
! Come one come all, to the W. C. T. .. enter
| tainment in the NJ. E. Church tonight. Reading
/ by Miss Hessbold, Of Iuka, and remarks by
others. Admission, ten cents.
Sophia Jane brought the paper in
and read it over to me three times. I
thought it must be something grand.
and it was so kind in the ladies to in
Vite US all. L knew it must have been
/ brought for us, for Sophia Jane saw
the boy going away, and he was the
| son Of the richest man in town. But
| the "W. @. T. U" L knew must stand
| for some gathering among the upper
/ tens, for the price was made ten
cents, as I thought, on purpose
/ to keep out the scum of sOci-
| ETY.. took the dictionary and
| looked all through the "Ws" until I
came to the word welcome" and I
was sure that was what the W stood
for. I looked through the "Cs," and
! had almost given up in despair when
my eye struck the word "Cynosure,
which the dictionary says means a cen
! ter Of attraction, and then I was salts
fed 1 had that word right. The "T"
| knew stood for Tryphena, and the most
suitable word for the gu" was I'M
| awares; so the letters stood for "Wel-
come CynOsure Tryphena, Unawares, "
| or, in palmer words, welcome center
| of attraction, Tryphena, though your
humility will not let you think well of
! yourself"
Oh! how my spirits swelled within
nae when I made up my mind what the
| letters meant, and I tell you right here
| that if the poor family to whom I gave
the rooster had come in then I wouldn't
have touched them with a ten-fOot
pole. Of course I made up my mind
that the whole family should go, but I
didn't tell PhyIetus and George any
thing about it until after supper. I got
/ a splendid supper, and we topped off
on cider, which made them feel in good
spirits, for it was mighty hard, and
then / told them about the entertain
ment, and they were high up for go
ing. We went rugged up in style, and
we linked arms as we went in the
church. Phyletus and L were one pair,
and George and Sophia another, and
we walked up to the front stove and
stood, pretending to get warm, but I
did 1t so as to see who was there and
to show off. When we we're warm we
took seats in the center of the church,
for didn't forget about being the
| center Of attraction.
Pretty soon the reading by Miss
Hessbold began, and 1 declare she was
fixed up with flowers in her hair,
trail to her dress three feet long, and
her cheeks were so rosy and. she looked
so nice, that I unbenOwnly lOnged to
see Sophia Jane on the roster beside
her, and L was going to speak to her
about 1t when / saw she was gritting
her teeth like madness; but George
Was-was -enthusiasticulated for /
saw that love had struck him
again, and after that I looked upon
her with an eye expecting to be her
mOther-in-1aW, and I took great COM
fort in seeing that she was quick and
lively in her motions.
She read something about the great
white moon stalking through the east
ern rye, and some ones twin brother
dying in a distant land dead drunk,
| and she kicked the roster and flung
| her arms around, and once she prayed
/ and rolled her eyes around like Ply
| letus does when he asks the blessing.
After she got through they called
upon different ones to speak. Well,
/ they all told about some poor men
/ they had seen drunk, and by and by
some of the folks began to look to-
wards the "center of attraction" and I
nudged Phyletus to speak on our be-
| half, for I thought I would let him
start the speechifying and I would
! top off with a verse of poetry.
Meanwhile Phyletus was getting
mad, and as the fifth speaker
sat down Phyletus went up to
the roster and began to speak.
He flung his arms beautifully, and
stamped his boots louder than Miss
HessbOld did, but the folks wouldn't
| listen to him. I heard hiTa say some