The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-23
HE TOOK A CHAIR.
When He Got Home He Managed to
 Separate Himself From It.

When He Got Home He Managed to
 Separate Himself From It.
 All good and true men appreciate the indescribable evidences of the gentle hand of fair woman that are to be found in many households. Whether 1t be in the delft arrangement of DOT tiere, the disposition of brie-a-brac, the scattering here and there of fragrant flowers, or the general air of daintiness that characterizes her presence, the in- huence of woman is always refreshing. Then, too, the sex is growing day by day more practical. No longer content With playing Chopin's masterpieces on the piano, with painting chinaware or embroidering tides, they are gettlng closer to every day matters. For ln- stance, in a certain Lucas avenue home the girls, two vivacious and accom- plished belles still in their teens. have made wonderful difference in the ap- pearance of the interior. They have re- stored and redecorated everything, and their latest achievement was the revar- nishing of half a dozen "occasionaP' chairs In the parlor.
 Two young beaux called one evening last week and were ushered into the  parlor. The girls soon put in an ap- pearance and the quartet spent 6 very pleasant and intellectual time. Now, 1t happened that one of the callers seated himself on newly vanished chair. The weather had been quite warm, and possibly the girls had not sufficiently looked into the question of dryers when they did the vanishing. Be this as 1t a tof in fo oof tof ffar oh r. ting pleasantly with Miss Nellie for half an hur the young man, desiring to change his pose, discovered, to his horror and dismay, that he could not He burst into cold precipitation, and his manner became so embarrassed that Miss Nellie could not help noticing 1t.
 It certainly is little warm," re- piled the youth, as he parried her query
 Ihen won't you sit nearer the win. coW; you'll get a nice breeze here?' re- marked Miss Nellie with an impulsive solicitude that under ordinary circum. stances would have brooked no denial but this time the poor object of so much consideration awkwardly declined tc budge. Unhappily, he was at best g diffident fellow, and the thought of hay. ing to disclose what had happened al most made him faint
 At one moment, while his entertainer was looking the other way, he made quite a desperate effort to secure his liberty, but a warning sound of rip ping nature compelled him to stop with suddenness that made the windows rattle
 And so he sat on. He sat on until his friend suggested that the hour of ad journment had arrived, and he still sat on when all else arose. At last he man. aged by dumb show to communicate to his chum the fact that something was wrong. The chum, aided by thu girls brother. who arrived opportunely succeeded in getting the sisters out O the way, and a few minutes later tht victim, chair and all, was hustled ou into carriage that had been sum moned. He did not hear it. but ther, was a shriek of mirth as he drove of that was renewed when the chair wa! returned the next day.
 And now the young man swears ht | will never set foot,within the hospitablt house again, while the girls, who ar, sincerely mortified at the tribulatioI they unwittingly caused him, are pug zling themselves how to make amends I-St. Louis Republic.