The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-26
SOME SHORT STORIES
Brief Tales and Incidents Picked
Up About the City.
Fair Forgers Who Enjoyed a Wedding
-PhilanthrOpic Ideals Shattered
The Football BOres.

There are three fair forgers in Indianapo-
lis. They are young ladies' who, although
there is little danger of their being hauled
before the courts of law for their offense,
are daily Shivering in their little boots lest
in some Unlocked for manner they may
be detected and banished from the ex-
elusive realm in which they move. The
girls are ~neighbors and particularly fast
friends. Usually each of them attends all
Entertainment given by their set, but re-
Gently when the invitations were issued
for a wedding but one of the trio was among
the favored few. The young lady who re-
ceived the invitation found in her envelope
a small pasteboard which read in ordinary
black ink: Admit to church" 1t was
intense disappointment that her two friends
found themselves among the forgotten.
Nearly everybody in that section of the
city was going, the two slighted ones
learned, and with the assistance of their
lucky friend they met in a council Of war.
easily forged. One of the girls proposed
this scheme, but the others stood appalled,
ciled them to accept the plan and it was
carried out. The wedding night came
around and the three daintily-clad maidens
presented themselves at the door of the
church. One of the fair p~lotters carried the
tickets. and with nervous little fingers
she opened her purse to get them. Horrors,
had been lost. and there they were with a
couple of spurious ones. After a hurried
odd game of bluff" The girl with the
two forged tickets stepped forward with all
the assumed confidence of a dozen men and
presented the cards. The door-keeper took
them. He looked critically at the tickets,
then gazed into the abashed eyes of the
applicants. and with an eXasperating smile
time aphorism regarding ili-gotten gains,
etc., proved itself false on this occasion,
for the three forgers enjoyed the wedding
without a pang of conscious gilt.
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Mrs. BIS charitable disposition received a
very severe shock the other day. She is a
young married woman whose husband has
an excellent practice and they live very
comfortably, even luxuriously. She has
read much of the distress among the poor
this winter and her tender heart has been
terribly wrenched by 1t. Lik many another
good and lovable woman of Indianapolis,
she has not only joined sewing circles, but
has been practicing severe economy, not
only upon her table but upon her dress as
well and turning all she saved over TO the
charity organization. The other day she
was called to the door to greet a young
woman of pinched features. thinly clad,
who poured q tale of distress into her ears
a little worse than any she had heard. The
young Woman's husband had been out of
work three months and was now living very
i'll. Two children were sick and weak.
They had no money and had had nothing
to eat but bread and water for three DAYS.
The gas company had shut off the gas and
this very day the wagon from an INSTALL
ment house had backed up and carried off
their stove. Could not the Kind lady give
her a little something TO buy bread? Mrs.
b. was deeply touched. "Just wait a min
ute" she exclaimed. until 1 get my hat
and cloak. I'll go right home with you and
see that you get what you need" And she
rushed to the bedroom TO get her wraps.
When she returned the young woman had
gone and was sailing down the street as
rapidly as her feet could carry her. 1t was
money she wanted, not assistance.
Bill and his friend were coming down
from Crown Hill on a North Ilinois-street
| car. Eli had just lost his job, which con-
| sisted Of employment in digging a founda-
| ton for a new house. He saw no prospect
of getting another job, and this made him
Respondent, for there were four mouths
about his table three times a day. Yet he
was in good health, and Mary and the
babies had never felt better. Opposite the
two laboring men was a portly young man,
dressed in the height of fashion. His tan
gloves matched his well-oiled tan shoes; his
macintosh could have cost no less than
SIS, and besides il had oilSkin wriStlets TO
protect the lily white wrists from the
dampness of the day. His tie was quite
fashionable, his trousers were properly
I&ADt AhD IL - "a llOilA Ills
living. In a clipper way he puckered his
mouth and started to whistle a gay air.
NOW" said Bill 10 his companion, look
at that young blood over there with his
rich clothes on. He's got nothing to worry
him like [ have. / reckon his father gives
him all the money ne wants. L wish the
Lord would let me trade places with him
for the next three years"
Presently the portly young man stopped
whistling and got off the car. Bill did not
know who he was. A man next TO Bill was
smiling.
That's Schuyler Haughey," the smiling
man said.
OF all the bores TO whose idiosyncracies
the newspaper man is subjected he most
breads the football crank. The trouble
about him is that he is usually q youna
man OF s~uper1uous leisure and never
dreams that anybody else is busy. 1t seems
the most natural thing in the world for hin
10 call up a newspaper by telephone half ?
dozen times every Saturday night to lear
the result OF all the football games. There
are two or three hundred such young mer
in indianapolis, and IL comes pretty neal
Occupying one mans time TO answer them
on election nights the newspapers expecl
inquiries and detail a man 10 answer the
TELEPHONE. but they can hardly afford &c
do this every Saturday night.
One Chance for u Good Name.
Chicago Record.