Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-21


Bible?' snorted the old vet. Il didn'
have no Bible.'
We'll, what was that package .,
asked the groceryman.
ut was deck O. cards. My fathe,
mad been to war an he knew what E
soldier needed t. pass away tn time
III ne hadn't give me that deck I'd {
been fertilizin' a cotton patch thi:
minute
The report comes to the notice of the
journal reporter of a first meeting of :
woman's club. 1t was told by mar
SO that accounts for its oddity.
The club was composed of unhapn,
wives with grievances; maiden ladies
OF certain age; women who longed 70,
the public eye; women With fads to ex-
plolt; women who believe the club
door to be the opening wedge into So
crety; women who were unappreciate1
N' (WHICH WHO Hdu IdrSe new
bonnets and small old ideas: women
who had large and small old boq1nets
and women with neglected children and
deserted husbands.
Ihe announcement card stated thai
the hour of meeting would to O'Clock
and at $50 the first-comers struggled
in.
The president was absent at a
matinee. The first vice president ex-
cused herself from presiding on the
ground That she had an old hat, and
after nine similar excuses the tenth
vice president took the chair.
After hitting her thumb with the
gavel, having the wounded member
tied up with a lace handkerchief and
violet ribbon by the chairman of the
executive committee, the meeting was
called to order.
The recording secretary read report
"a pages in length, describing the last
meeting, which had taken place the
preceding spring. Five pages of this
report We're devoted to the description
OF the costume of the guest of honor,
the president of another branch. While
the report was being read the members
passed peppermint drops and ex-
changed bits of personal biography.
frequently interrupted by the fall of
the gavel
The chairman of the executive COM
mittee announced that at a private
meeting everybody who wanted to had
been admitted to the club on condition
that the initiation fees and the first
years dues We're paid in advance
The corresponding secretary read let
tiers from foreign celebrities grateful
for being admitted to honorary MEM
bership and acknowledging receipt of
photographs of the officers of the club.
The treasurer announced that the
club was in a very fiourishing condi-
ton. only $500 deficit being discovered,
and suggested that a series of cake
and lemonade festivals be held to de-
fray expenses. The tenth vice presi-
dent presiding, asked for remarks and
suggestions, and the whole club stand
ing, commenced to talk in unison. A
teacher of elocution outstripped the
others, and at her amendment marsh
mallows We're added to the menu of the
coming festival. Business being COM
'pleted, the programme of the day COM
menced.
Papers loudly applauded We're, re-
spectively, Woman Suffrage the Sc
cret of Happiness rs the Personal
Chastisement of Husbands Hurtful to
Their Self espect?". and Man, Once
Our Inferior. Now Our Inferior. Al
ways Our Inferior:.s d
In the midst ofaa animated Discus
sion as. toathes. final extinction of the
atom-map-the tea pen rang. and 25
papers unAad We're slid sadly into
capacieusfS aske4s.
Peraonaf a,lstofies were resumed over
the tea Guns;s ana at 40 the members
took lengthy sfarewells ana returned to
cherries Households. waiting dinner
less for their.return.
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