The Washington weekly post., 1900-08-28
"DOPE" IN HER MUSIC ROLL,
Embnrra-sment of n NOHng Woman
Whose Brother PLAYED the Races.

From the New York sun
Among the young people who attended
an evening sociable at a well-known New
Jersey seashore resort the other evening
was a young woman from this city visit
Ing friends at the place. She is an ex-
pert on the piano, and her friends had ar
ranged the affair purposely TO give her a
chance to show her accomplishments. In
the letter that was sent inviting her to
spend a couple Of weeks at the place she
was asked especially TO bring her own
music with her, as everybody at the re-
sort was Just dying to hear her play.
When she arrived and her trunk was un-
packed one of the first articles that came
to view was a dark leather music roll that
bulged out. Her friends clapped their
hands in delight in anticipation OF the
great musical treat in store.
They wanted her to try some of Il right
away, but the girl pleaded fatigue, and
with visits and receiving callers the time
was well taken up until the evening OF
the sociable.
After going through the formalides of
being introduced the visitor was finally
asked by the hostess to play something
The big bulging music roll was produced
and the girl went 10 the piano, accompa-
iAitu DS the lDtNlIdDlt young Indn 10
turn. TWirling the stool around until
il reached a height to suit her. the girl
seated herself, and. placing the music roll
IN her lap, unfastened the strap. II re
quired several turns Of the roll to disclose
the contents. but when it finally was
opened and spread out a lot Of newspaper
clippings dropped out and fell to the floor.
The young man who had volunteered to
90 the turning" hastily stopped and
gathered them up while the girl looked On
- L.
way to one of modification when he hand
ed her the clippings and she saw that
they were something relating to horse
races. She stammered that there must be
some mistake and that she had not re-
ceived her own music roll. but she was
convinced that no mistake had been made
when her own friends assured her that II
was the same one she had brought with
her. Many of those present by this time
had gathered around the embarrassed girl,
plying her with all sorts of questions, until
finally one young man, who had picked I'D
the roll and was examining its contents,
called out.
why, this is dope"
"Dope!' exclaimed several Of the wo-
men, in chorus. What in goodness does
he mean?"
They stared at the girl seated on the
piano stool. who looked as if she was
about to cry. One woman said loud enough
for every one to hear that she had read
something connected with opium smoking
but she didn't know that Il was made of
paper. The young man who had made the
discovery that the roll contained dope
explained that the dope he referred to was
but horse racing dope, or, in other words
a record of the races. This statement
Strengthened things out a bit. but he made
big hit with the owner of the music roll
and her friends when he asked her if she
had brother. Upon receiving an answer
in the affirmative he remarked that of
course that explained the whole thing. for
probably the brother played the races and
had put the dope in the music roll by
mistake.
When the girl returned home the first
one of the family to greet her was her
brother. Her greeting was naturally
chilly, and when he asked her what was
up she snapped at him:
Jack, do you play the races?'
Yes, sometimes" he answered in sur
prise, but how did you find il out?' She
giared at him a moment and then said:
We'll, I've got your dope" In the ex-
PLANTATION that followed he told how he
had taken the music roll to carry the
dope" in, thinking the roll was an old
one and not in use. A share in pOssibIe
winnings Strengthened out matters.