The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-08-29
An Episode at a PIiyate Masquer a de-

1t was in q town not thousand miles from
Boston that there were recently given cou
pie of masquerade parties at private houses
At the second of these the hostess of the first
party found herself talking very amiaby with
mask 10 whom she supposed herself to recog.
nize gentleman who had come to the town
just after her own entertainment. Simply
for the sake of making conversation, and OF
throwing the gentleman off the scent of her
own identity, she asked:
"Were you at, Mrs. Blank s masque party p
mo-" he answered, II was not honored
with an invitation"
"Were you here at that time? p she esked
YES" he answered, "but Mrs. Blank does
not like me-"
CONSERVATION seized upon Mrs. Blank, but
she instantly determined not to betrav her.
self.
Doesn't she?" she returned csreessly.-
"Probably that is one of the things which
you imagine. Some people are always sup
posing that others do not like them. you
know"
Her companion seemed trife annoyed.
Il am not one of that Sort" he retorted
rather brusquely. Besides, she has intimat
ed to me that she did not like me-"
SIS it fair to ask how ?" Mrs. Blank asked
entirely mystified in regard to the identity Of
her interlOcutor.
why, I should not mind telling you if
were sure that you wouldn't repeat it."
"Oh, never betray a confidence" the lady
said eagerly.
The gentleman leaned over until his face
under its mask was near 10 hers.
81 asked her 10 marry me-"
Mrs. Blank was more startled than ever
The train of her ole suitors, and in her day
she had had not few, came up before bel
mental vision. and she wondered which one
Of them chance had brought to her side to-
night, but in vain.
But" she said slowly, because lady re
fused you it need not follow that she dislike6
you. l am sure woman is not to be sup
posed TO dislike every man she does not wisf
to marry. That would be a most absurd
assumption"
80 be sure it would" he assented cheer
fully; shut in this particular case she did moi
refuse me.
'Did not refuse you'll echoed Mrs. Blank
in establishment. "She certainly did not &C
cept yous"
"That is precisely what she did do
ut is not" Mrs. Blank began, and then
considering that if she said true it would be
showing more knowledge of Mrs. Blanks
affairs than was compatible with pretending
tence eud said, "creditable that she should
accept you and then marry another man."
"She didn't Kate" her husband said in his
own voice, "she married me-"
"Tom W she cried.
"Yet, my DEAR" Tom answered, "you told
me at our party that couldn't fool you"
you are wrench and monster" she de-
clared, land l will never forgive YOU"
But she did and told the joke at her ex
pense before the evening was over.
Left Leggedness.
There is a popular idea that because the
right arm is more often used and stronger
than the lett, so the right leg is stronger
than the left. This is not correct; there il
evidence that the lelj leg on most people il
stronger than the right. From the theoreti
cal point of view, it would appear that in al
manual labor requiring increased use of thu
right hand the left leg is also employed
on the principal of equilibrium. In the case
of lowe animals Except ambulators-
etc. } and babies, when walking on all fours
the right fore limb moves with the left hinG
limb, and vice versa. 1t follows from this
that man, using the right arm more than the
letg, would probably use the left leg more
than the right. Many people find less exer
ton in walking around large circles to thu
right than in going to the lei. This is also
the case in race paths for athletic sports
nearly all of which are arrang for the racers
to go in circles to the right in running
Again, travellers have observed that hunters
when lost on prairies, wander around in circle.
to the right. This fact had been attributed
to the following the course of the sun bu
this does not appear to be necessarily the case
Many SIX aters can perfoi n more figures or
the left than on the right foot--or, at any
rate, in commencing, figures are more readily
done on The lett foot. With rope dancers i
is usually observed that tie more complicat
ed feats of balancing are performed on the
left foot. In dancing gyration is chiefly tc
the right, but few being able to revere. II
dressing many men must put the lei; g into
their trousers first, before the right, some ever
going so far as to state that if, through some
accident they should have reversed the pro-
cess, they have to remove the offending right
trouser or boot before continuing their toilet