The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-27

| and cards are too slow for that crowd.
| Clara says every time one of the Doys
! takes one of US TO the theater he has 10
buy two tickets extra for lady friend
on whom he goes out with. And ne
doesn't speak TO the lady friend if he
meets her or she 10 him.
All tOgether-WhO is he?
Margaret - Clara wouldn't tell - choco-
lates, please; thank you.-it might be
most any of them; Harry, for instance
en-. Catharine2
Catharine Gndignantly)-Th idea. You
are mean thing. Margaret
Virginia-But. truly. Catharine, aren I
you going TO make him tell you about all
of his scrapes?
Miss Snow. girls I haven't been out
three years for nothing | know more
now than he would ever own up TO. No;
shall not ask him anything, but some
tune, when he is fiattering himself that
he Is pulling the wool over my eyes, III
accidentally spring few bits Of knowl-
edge on him Just to prove that I'm not
so stupid as j seem.
Christine-WeI, but really, Catharine,
are you going in for the heavy matronly
act or are you going 20 keep on being de-
Gently young and giddy?
Miss Sim going to have all the good
times | can, | premise you. | am going
( into the Daughters of the Revolution and
work up a little history this winter in
Lent; Harry wants me to.
Nirginia-How do you do IL? George
says / must be a Daughter before he and
| visit his grandaunt in Philadelphia after
we are married. She is heavy on the
Revolution and families and such.
Miss S.-Why, I'll just copy mamma 5
papers and go in on them. It's easy
enough; just trace back 10 your great
grandfather or somebody you are des-
cended from that was in the Revolution
and they look you up and you pay your
dues and that's all.
Margaret-Most everybody that has
been in this country a few generations
could 90 that Il seems to me: everybody
has a great-grandfather, and from what
I hear most all the available men in
those days did serve in the Revolution
one way or another.
Miss S.-Yes, but everybody don't know
any farther back than their grandfather
and some stop this side of him: besides,
If everybody whose ancestors served In
the Revolution were 10 join. I'd get out;
il would be too mixed for comfort
Christine-I hear that it is now in Chi
cago. They say they are dropping mem
berS because they haven't proper table
manners for eating in public.
Virgina-Let rs be lust though the
heavens fall! I don't believe that yarn: I
thinlS>it is a canard TO get even for the
sewage Chicago IS sending down.
rap at the door and 4 servant enters
with a tray, champagne glasses and
cigarettes thereon. While another follows
with a couple of bottles in ice. No. l
hands an envelope 70 Miss s.
Miss s. Gn surprisel-Why what is this?
H&rry's writing, and addressed to "Mis-
ses Catharine, Margaret, Christine. and
Eirginia"-you may go. Bridget and you
too. Mary. I'll attend TO this-well girls.
lust Hstan. "Dea- Girls: I hone you do
not find your last Bachelor Gossip slow;
in case il might drag / send YOU the regu-
lafion thing for anlivening the situation
We have our farewell tonight. Yours,
HARRY"
Wei. what do you think of that!
Cnorue-''The dear fellow"
The curtain drops TO the hopping of
corks. and the last Gossip ends in
cigarette smoke with everybody talking
n once, and nobody listening to anybody
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