The morning call., 1892-09-25
MRS AND THE MISSES BALLINroBBER
Request the pleasure OF
Mr.. CLoNARTY'S
Company on Friday Evening, July 20,
At 9 p. NJ.
Dancing.

Ibid you ever see the like?" cried Clon-
arty as though the Sheriff had sent his CON-
piments, and would not Clonarty call round
to be hanged?
"Wel," said ], II don't see where the
hardship comes in. You know the Balm
tobbels?"
'Of course | know them. Didn't / work
with old Jim BaIlintobber on Beelzebub
Gulch In the SiSkiyou jim we
called him--and wasn't | present at his
wedding, and haven't l often handled on
my kuee his pretty little daughters-whom
he had the face to christen Diorite and
Trachyte-more shame for him.?
Then what is there surprising in their
asking you TO their house|
Man alive, / never was at party since
l came down to the bay. l wouldn't know
how to behave"
PITY about YOU" said |.
"Tell you what have made up my mind
to do. | think / know what genteel society
requires I'll send old Mother Balllntobber
turkey and twelve dozen oysters. When
| set my mind ON a thing know how to
do it,"
L had some difficulty in persuading the
genial old fellow that il wasn't the custom
In San francisco to reciprocate invitations
with donations OF turkeys and oysters; that
city balls were rot moral picnics. When
tune came up. Clonarty had no dress coat;
never had one in his life. He also testify
refused TO own one.
''l'm free with my money" said he, ''as
you know. But it's flying in the face of
providence for a man of my age TO pay $50
or SO for steel-pen mat. I'll just brush
up my peaiacket. You know it, Amt 1t
rig tit for an EMPEROR
told him that he could hire q swallow
tail for So, and he started out to obtain the
garment Oh these terms. lie returned with
fuli-dress suit on. The trousers did not
reach his boots by three inches, the waist
coat was gasping; the coat was so long that
the tails tapped against the calves OF his
legs. In the pocket OF the waistcoat dis
covered plug which had been partly
chewed and evidently forgotten.
was struggling with a fit of laughter
into which his aspect plunged me, when
Colonel Pitblado called.
The colonel is man about town as to
whom it is debatable question whether lie
is over OK under 40. His figure is so SYM
metrical that he has been accused of wear
ing corsets. Long ago, in the days of thu
boom, he made modest fortune, which
latterly he resolved TO double by prudent
marriage. TO this end he is always mmac-
uIately dressed and curled like an Assyrian
bull. In a calm review OF his merits and OF
the vast number of pursuits in which he
exeels he holds that lie is irresistible, and
that the future Mrs. Pitblado will be
lucky woman. This gentleman now sur
veyed Clonarty's costume with silent amaze
ment, then jerked out:
Getting up private theatricalsp"
l explained the situation and he grasped
the difficulty at once.
''Tl rig our friend out l always keep
two dress suits in commission. He shall
wear the second best IL will be tight fit.
but it will do him good to glrth himself in.
Please be careful, my dear fellow, not to let
any sauces or iqueurs drop on IT,"
At $3.50 o'clock on July % we pushed our
way through throng at the Balintob-
bers' house, and shook hands with the
hostess, who was perspiring good deal,
and looked wretched. AS we moved away
to make room for other guests. she begged
us to stay.
Don't leave me. want to see one or
two friendly faces. Give you my word |
don't know a soul in the ROOM"
The colonel asked If the people had come
without invitations.
No." said the old lady. ''rrachy and
Diory asked the people they knew, and then
chap who, they say, is foreman Of the