The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-08-21
PITY THE ABsENTMlNDED.


For These Are Some of the Accidents
Which Daily Befall Them.
"It is a great misfortune to be alb
sentminded, remarked the young
woman in gray.
Indeed it is. groaned the girl
with pompadouredh hair, land know
all about it if anybody does. went
shopping with Ida the other day, and
we must have exchanged parasols in
the first shop we entered. She found
she had mine when she got home
and brought it over to me, and
would you believe it?-the one had
wasn't hers at all, and as / may
have exchanged it half a dozen times
for all / know her prospect of get
ting it back is not at all bright. "
II should think not" said the
young woman in gray. "But my
latest exploit is equally bad. I came
up from Hyde Park the other day to
go to luncheon on the North Side,
stopping on the way for a pair of
gloves. When I came out of the
store, I found l had only 20 minutes,
so took cab. What was my sur
prise to find myself at home when
we stopped, and yet must have
given the man my own address, Or
he couldn tpossibly have known it. +"
Every true / did funny thing
not long ago myself, " said the young
woman in green. IT paid a lot of
calls and noticed that every one
looked queer, but / couldn't think
why until I found that / had been
leaving the cards had left over
when l was married. And now
everybody is asking Harry when we
were divorced.
my goodness, that was awful!'
said the young woman in gray.
"Now, often forget the name of
the woman I'm calling ont slips
right out of my head when I ascend
the front steps-and am reduced to
asking for the lady of the house. 1t
sometimes gives rise to complica-
tons, too" she added, where peo-
pie have moved away and given
place to total strangers.
II should think So" said the girl
with pompadoured hair, but l can't
sit in the scat of the scornful myself.
The other day wrote Matte all
about the breaking of Prue's en-
gagement. My mind was so full Of
her that actually addressed the en-
velope to Prue herself. She sent it.
back without a word, and now I'm
busy lodging into stores and up al
leyways to avoid meeting her. !"
"No wonder, - observed the young
woman in green, "but I'm just as
bad. The other day Clara and were
out together, and on the way home
gave the conductor two niokels.
What's this one for?' he asked.
Why, for the other lady, answer
ed. Then l suddenly remembered
that she had left me before I got in
the car. 5"
Eyes, it is a real misfortune to be
absentminded, said the girl with
pompadoured hair. 1.-THE other day
l told Evelyn an awfully funny story
and couldn't imagine why she was
SO stiff about it until rememb ered
that it was about an accident which
had befallen her own husband. ~
"You poor thing" said the young
, woman in gray. but just listen to
what did last week. I went to the
-nil1iner's and tried on a lot of hats.
None of them just suited me. and I
was preparing to go when the sales
woman handed me another. oh,
it's no use to try that one on, said.
It's a perfect fright, Tt is the one
you were wearing when you came
in she replied politely, and my
feelings may be better imagined
than described. "
81 should think so,'' said the
young woman in green. my good
ness! What shall I do? I left my
| husband in the waiting room at the
Babel while I went to buy veil;
then met you and forgot all about
him. Do you suppose he is there
YETI"
"If he is, I shouldn't advise you
to go after him, remarked the