Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-23


would she never enter playhouse, as
she valued her immortal soul, but she
would as soon have been introduced
to the devil himself as to play actor.
This was why Minnie and Dora kept
so absolutely silent on the subject of
Pinkerton and Tradgold, and this was
why, when they had privately ar
ranged a foursome with those gentle
men on the Gigham links, they pre-
tended to their mother that they |
were simply going to play a two
some between themselves in the ordi- |
nary way.
Mrs. Arson was not enthusiastic
about their playing golf at all. She
knew nothing of the game and cared
less, supposing az gsmes to Re more
or less waste of that valuable time
which is allotted to man to be spent
in working out his eternal salvation.
Still, she allowed the girls to join
the Bigham Ladies' Golf club (hav-
ing ascertained that the committee
numbered among its members sew
eral matrons of the highest social
standing and moral character), and
| did not object to their going down
there for round now and again. Had
she known that these demure daughl
ters Of hers were sometimes to be
seen disporting themselves on the
gentlemen's course in the company
of two actors she would have nearly
had fit.
But she was in blissful ignorance of
that appalling fact; and Minnie and
Dora, of course, took no steps to en-
tighten her.
Now when they played their four
some they not infrequently dispensed
with the service of caddies. To
couples fiirtatiously inclined the pres
ence of caddies is apt to be irksome.
These youngsters have eyes as sharp
| as needles, rendered especially acute
/ by practice in marking down goli
! balls (and on the sporting" Bigham
, course balls want some marking)
while their ears have grown keen by
constant straining to catch the NUT
{ tered explosives in which even the
most righteous and sober players al
y times indulge. Nothing very wrong
r passed between the members If oul
foursome. Matters had not yet pro
{ crossed to the length of stolen kiss
/, only once or twice land that wheI
: they were hunting for a ball ''in the
e wilderness out of the way'O to the
length OF hand squeeZ. Still, ever
that might reult in the caddies com
r ing back with undesirable rumors ant
retailing them to other golfers by
: whom they might next be employed
: and so they found it convenient to dis
|. pose of them altogether, and to carry
e their own clubs. That is to say, o.
: course, each gentleman carried hi:
It own capacious canvas bag.
II there was one thing more thar
another which showed the utterly de-
: moralizing effect of Irritation upor
| sound golf, II was the competency
n with which Pinkerton and TredgolC
: accepted their own crooked drives
S from the tee. Now Pinkerton SLICED
Y his drives abominably; Tredgold, or
v the other hand, pulled his in the vilest
/ way. In golfer of any proper feel
t ing the preparation of either enor-
G nifty should induce a sense of the di-
rest shame and distress. Yet Pink
: erton would slice into a gravel pit
with entire equanimity, and Tiedgold
: would pull into a whin-forest with
/, perfect composure. If both had
kept straight and foursome they would
n have advanced on their balls en- masse
p But one ball lying fifty yards to the
right of the proper line, and the other
o fifty yards to the left, the players
: moved away in pairs, with con-
n venient space intervening, and only
met again at their Philippi-the put
: ting green.
By that time each side had usually
r approached double figures in the way
of strokes. When 1t is added that they
n could not merely accept this without
turning hair, but actually joke-yes
over the disgrace, 1t will be seen
that the loss of their golfing self-re-
spect had become perfect and COM
! plete.
: At this point, when Pinkerton had
e just had to dig his ball from the bot
tom OF well, and luck in jumping the
: bunker, they were approaching the
3 seventeenth hole, which-as all Big
!, ham golfers Knowles closely ada
i cent TO the Croydon high road. II was
+ Minnie's shot, aud she raised her cleek
in the act Of strike. But she stopped
} in the middle of her string. let the
I club sink feebly to the ground. and
uttered sudden cry of dismay
"Oh-oh-Dora," she cried to her
sister. Oh-oh-Do-do-yo
"See9 What? The hole?"
"N-n-n-o-o. Mamma! Yes. and
do believe it's--it's-M-Mr. Carru-
Tiers with her"
Mamma? Mr.. Carruthers? Where?"
exclaimed Dora, turning as white as a
new golf ball.
There: just coming toward us along
the foe path. Oh, what shall We
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