The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05
WAS VERY AWKWARD
so THE MAN WHO HAD TO DO TIRE
 READING DECIDED.

And Resolved. Furthermore. After
 Having Been Relieved From an
 Unpleasant Dilemma. Not to Talk
 Business While Dressing.
 A Worcester man once had a very disagreeaDle experience with pair of trousers or perhaps it would be better to say without pair of trousers, of. on more mature thought. it might be still better to say with the wrong pair of trousers. for, outside the fact that this story is about pair of trousers there is nothing to shock the tenderest feelings Any way you put it the ex- perience was disagreeable, and it deter mined the man never again to talk busi- ness while dressing to go out. It would not have been SO bad if it had been a dinner, for in such case, by dextsrous and intelligent management of chair backs and draperies and a final grace ful disposition of the tablecloth, man can accomplish wonders As 1t was, the man was scheduled to take part in reading and he was to have no reading desk 80 he was really in an unpleasant position.
 Another man came to see him while he was dressing to go to the reading, aud the business on which he came was business that was important to the man with the trousers. as he may be called to distinguish him from other men, So that while he dressed himself perfectly in all other particulars he neglected to take off the gray striped trousers of his working clothes and to replace them with the black ones of his evening dress This was not so bad. of course. as if he had remembered the first part of the proposition and forgot the last (what an unpleasant thought). but 1t was bad enough. and so he believed when he reached the house where the reading was to be given and was about to go out on the improvised stage to fulfill his part of the programme.
 It was then that he noticed it. He hastily summoned the hostess, but even when she arrived the situation present cd some difficulties.
 ''I must ask you to put of my ap- pearance for a, little while. he said "I have forgotten-er-my glasses Can t read word without 'em."
 The hostessreminded him with some distress that lis home was long dis tance away and that there was no car riage at the door at that hour "The audience will all be gone by the time you get back" she said.
 Cant help it, said the man with the trousers "What l want to read is in that particular book, and I have brought the wrong one. Must get time to slip home. and change them-change 1t, l mean.
 But perhaps can find you copy here," said the lady, little puzzled.
 "Won' do. /" said the man. becoming much embarrassed 'I have to use that handkerchief in the reading. Must go back for it.,4 And in his excitement he came out from behind the chair, and the hostess is believed to have perceived the cause of all the trouble
 ''At any rate. she said smilingly, "I'll call my husband He can supply you, l am sure.
 ''But it must be black ones-a black one. l mean" said the man, greatly agitated.
 "He has a black one. I am sure. said she and vanished
 When the husband came in, he wore . broad grin and appeared to have come to complete understanding in the matter It did not take long to ar range things They went to the hus- bands room, where they conducted swap, and the husband gave the man with the trousers what he judged would do his nerves good. and. sure enough. 1t was just the thing. Then they went down stairs. the reader going out to read and the husband standing in doorway, with portieres arranged in the position in which he believed they would do the most good After tho reading they went up stairs and swap ped again. and the man with the trou- sers went home happy. Worcester Ga atta