Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-06-10
BACH CLUB GOSSIP.

Speaking Of wouan's treatment Of her
own sex and the feline grace Wit, which
they scratch each other on occasioa,' re
marked the Senator the other evening be-
tween the vhins of an excellent Havana
for which that gentleman Is noted. ''re-
minds me of . very amusing incident al
party l attended while in Sev York last
week. Glanced to cit near . worthy
couple that We will call Mr.. and Mrs.
Grundy, and the incident of which speak
came under my personal observation. Mrs
Crundy is near sighted but will not resort
To giasses of any kind for fear they will
prejudice people concerning her age.
Now Grundy at this reception fell
into the wiles of widow OF
whose age one may say "she may and she
may rot be-" She was not young enough
to be merely = flint, nor old enough to make
Mrs. Grundy Jealous. Mr.. Grundy kept &
safe distance from Mrs. Grundy, as he said
to the widow, because she was short
sighted. The widow could not resist Just
little tsntslizasion; and she went and SAT
down by Mrs. Grundy. Mrs. Grundy didn't
like the widow anyway, 50 she asked
Who was that homeiy old man you were
flirting with?'
.Homely. My dear. that was your hus
band
Mrs. Grundy was equal to the occasion.
MY husband! Go right back to him,
my dear. You are the first woman who
has paid him any attention for five years.
..Oh, but you take one of these loving,
trusting women and they're not of that
stamp" said Sandy, "You impose on the
Door dears to an unlimited extent, though
those are Just the ones to cause man to
feel himself more than brute in case they
chance to find him out in his deceiis.
have a friend, who though q commercial
traveller, 10 neverth- less steadied down into
a prosaic, matter-of-fact fellow With one
eve to business and the other TO the snug
little nest he calls home. But he used to
be one of the boys in the fullest sense of
the word. One day he told me how near
he came to losing the opportunity for mar
rying the woman he calls wife. My
wife's family be said, lis very
straight laced one. IL they had ever had
notion that knew the difference between
two pair and three of kind / shouldn't
have had the ghost of chance of winning
the wife had the good luck to capture.
Ans fair in love and war, you know. In
those days my great rival was professor
of theology. To get to windward of him
went in strong for prayer meetings, mis-
sionary societies, and all that sort OF thing.
One evening had been playing quiet
game with few of the boys, just to keep
my hand in, and was rather late in getting
around to see Clara. l told her that the
prayer meeting was q mighty interesting
one and broke up somewhat late. found
it rather warm work throttling my con-
science, and pulled out my handkerchief to
help me cool off a bit.
But the temperature went up to boiling
point when yanked out roll of chips and
they went rolling over the floor in all direc-
tons. l thought the theological professor
would soon have the Geld all to himself
when the old man picked up one of them.
what are these queer things for, John9"
said he.
II tumbled at once to the fact that the
old man didn't know poker chips when he
saw 'em. I saw that had a fighting chance
to lie out of 1t. and old Nick, bless him, put
the right sort of lie into my head at once.
why said l, with . regular Sunday
school smile. that's little idea Of my own;
got those things to put scriptural texts on
to distribute among the heather. think it
is an Improvement on the pocket-handker-
chief idea. got 'em in different colors to
suit the tastes of the heather; some of
them, you know, prefer white, and some
blue, and some are death on red. brought
'em with me tonight to get you to help me
select texts to put on EN-
CLARA and the old man were both
tckled to death over the idea, and as true
as I'm sinner we all stsid up till midnight
picking texts out of the Bible to engrave on
them.
but the rub came in when had to pay
$50 to get the texts engraved. guess it
was the Fl rst and last time that scriptural
texts were ever put on poker chips"
"What became of them?" asked.
They all disappeared mysteriously As
soon as got married"