The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
SNAPS.
TESTERS REVENGE.

LFrom the Chicago Times Herald.1
Lester Worth and Max Window were
both suitors for the hand of Miss Da-
wilson, and both were said to stand on
an equal footing in the young lady's es-
timation. Rumor had it that Lester
was the better liked Of the two, but If
you were guided by the smile that
greeted each on his presentation at her
beautiful home you would still be in
doubt as to their relative standing.
Lester and Max were both brokers on
the New York stock exchange, and
were quite good friends. They occasion
ally took lunch together and one day
Max said to Lester, Are you going TO
Miss Davidson's tOnight? Yes, re-
piled Lester. "wednesday night is the
night I usually go to see her. Wen,
If 1 We're you I wouldn't go Yours is
a hopeless case, for 1 was presumptuous
enough to propose, and was graciously
accepted Monday night. Do you con-
graduate me2"
Yes" answered Lester in a strained
voice, with all my heart, for it seems
I stood not a ghost of a chance" III
tell you what to do proposed Max, IN
order that the fellows on the exchange
won't guy you too badly. If 1 were you
] would put a line in the social column
of the Society Fashion that Lester
Worth is engaged to Miss-oh, make up
a name-Of Buffalo, or some other place,
lust as a stand Off That's a good
idea" answered Lester, leaving his
half-finished dinner and mechanically
putting on his coat. but I won't have
time" oh, III put It in for you, so
don't worry about time. So long"
The weekly number Of the Society
Fashion arrived at Miss Davidson
house and she withdrew to her private
bOudOir for a quiet half-hOur with her
friends in print AS usual, the per
sonals" were consulted, and after per-
using the columns for some time she
came to the following: THE engage
Inent of Lester Worth to Miss ForbuSh
Buffalo is announced
She laid down the paper and sighed.
She had expected Lester that evening,
and now she had been thrown over She
would certainly accept Max, whom she
had told to come for his answer the
following Thursday evening. She ex-
pected Lester, as he had said when he
met her on Fifth avenue that he had
something to ask her and would call
She stepped to the telephone in the
hall and called up Window & JOY, and
presently Max's voice came across the
line in a distinct "hellOw She said:
MY answer is yes You need not call
Thursday night" Next she called UP
Wheeler & Worth, and when she was
sure she was speaking with Lester, she
said, Il congratulate you on your en-
the compliment" came back in an IN
natural voice Yes. you may, but how
did you know it? The party in ques-
ton just received his answer two min
utes ago by my watch"
Suffice it to say that an item in the
Society Fashion turned the balance in
his favor.
Business was dull at the exchange,
and Lester found Max unengaged, and
when he could suppress his anger he
said; so you would stoop to any I'M
truth to further your ends. have
found out your little undetermined game
with me" We'll for that matter, an
swered Max, curling his mustache, all
is fair in love and war you know"
Yes" said Lester. 4 will remember
that adage and play it in the future as
successfully as you have. ."
When Lester called at Miss David
sons that evening the maid said, Not
at home" and Lester shrugged his
shoulders. for he had heard her singing
as he mounted the steps.
Two years had passed and Max Win
dOms beautiful wife had decided to
winter in Rome with her cousin, who
resided there. All that Max could say
didn't alter her intention. and she pro-
posed to sail on the Campagnia that af-
ternOon. Max still had a suspicion that
she cherished the fond memory of Les
ter Worth, and when, glancing over the
Society Fashion, he saw what Lester
Worth would sail on the Campagnia
that night for a trip abroad, he remem-
bered a conversation in which a BROTH
CT broker remarked that Lester had
said he would shock the society world