The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-07-09


NH cZ1EGu entable, butt will
&raSS4G5sxX5R leave you to
S3<kAf~ Judge. Here is
V0 the story:
Two days ago ! met my friend
Edward Beaumont on the boulevard.
He is 'bon vivant AS soon as we
exchanged the salutations of the day,
| said:
"Come, and dine with me to-mor-
row"
mo, l thank you; it is impossible"
''Why impossible?"
Because | am going to the mas
querade ball of the Princess Wassa-
lowna. 1t will be n magnificent affair;
all the best people IN society will be
there, elegantly dressed, zen masque,'
consequently mysterious intrIgues
and coquetry ad libitum, topped off
with n superb supper-trufiles and
champagne.
"Ah, you are lucky" l answered
with an envious sigh.
'Well, come and 60 with me. 1 will
"Whatl without my wife?"
"Of course"
But there's my mother-in-law NV
dear fellow, you don't know the severe
principles of that austere dame. She
would be furious at the bare thought
of such n thing"
"Ah, you are too guileless / can
manage all that. | will send you u
dispatch saying: THE case of Gilliard
comes up tomorrow; you are needed;
come without delay. 1t is the simp-
lest thing III the world to arrange. and
your mother-in-law will never know"
But have no costume. / would
not dare to go unmasked, and have
some driveler reporting my name in
his paper"
mo trouble about that, Babine,
the great costumer, is not ten steps
from here. Let us 90 there and choose
n costume. You can have it sent to
my rooms. Come there and dress,
and your 'belle-mere' will never be the
WISER
What would you have done in my
place? did just what you would
have done. ! said "All right. Come
on"
Perhaps you have never met my
mother-in-aw. will describe her.
Between 45 and so years of age,
hair slightly gray, eyes still bright and
alert, reasonably embonpoint, always
dressed in black serge robe, and
poke bonnet, her lips thin, her voice
sharp; in truth, her whole appearance
harsh and forbidding.
But must acknowledge she has
reared her daughter perfectly. l have
20 i
developed in the dear little thing an
exaggerated distrust of all coniupal
probity. | have often asked myself
how this austere person could have
learned the deceiving ways of our sex.
lier acuteness does not tally with her
rigid principles and manners Well. she
may have gained her knowledge from
the experience of her friends. You
KNOW many persons speak Spanish
who have never been to Spain.
do not know il | have told You
this severe matron passes her DAYS at
my house. 1t was at first understood
that tins arrangement would be tenn
porary. 1t has lasted seven Years,
and 1T seems from what my VIE
saysl that am the one who insists
upon her rcmaining-ugh-
The next day after meeting my
friend Edward, during breakfast
Louis, my valet, entered with n fold
cd envelope upon his waiter. | felt
hot tinglings run through my whole
body, but pretended not to see the
scamp standing by my chair.
My son-in-lawl'
looked up with n most innocent
candid expression
well, my dear MADAME"
Louis has dispatch for vou.n
"a dispatch All, let me see.'
take 1t, unfold it, feel the eyes
OF my wife and mother-in-law fixed
upon me, but keep my countenance,
read 1t slowly, then shrug my shout
ders with n gesture of annoyance.
anxiously.
Nothing serious, my dear" ! hand
her the dispatch. Ii reads; .rIhe !
case OF Gilliard comes up to-morrow.
the solicitor begs you will come i'm,
Ny wife gave little sigh, si.
which sgnified
Poor fellow, obliged to travel all
night on the railroad; how fatiguing, !
how annoying"
j.. My mother-in-law said nothing. only |
hSed her eyes upon me. | sustained |
the fire bravely
That evening at o'clock left these
ladies', valise on my arm, promising
to return IN twenty-four hours.
My friend Edward and / arrived at
The Princess Wassalowna's about 10
> clock. The orchestra was intoxica-
ing. The gorgeous scene of simmer
ng SIX, Jewels, flowers, lights, all a
parking dazzling, hurly-burlv, en-
me. | forgot my austere
pother-in-law and her rigid principles;
hen | was disguised; nothing like
nat to give fellow feeling OF as
'urance.
L had assumed the character of n
The costumer had advised
ne TO take this travesty-you know
exacts an irreproachable figure.
iodesty torbids my adding: the man
vas a good Judge.
danced, tlirted, drank champagne.
intrigued. Oh, it was delicious. From
me TO. time my friend Edward in
assing would touch my elbow and
ay' III the madam could only see