Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-01-19
THE SAME OLD GAME.
10 Wonder Poor Billingsley Wa
Worried and Angry.

10 Wonder Poor Billingsley Was
Worried and Angry.
A half grown boy ran quickly up the
steps Of the Billingsley domicile and
pressed the electric button. Mrs. Bill
Kingsley appeared at the door.
''Mr. Billingsley sent me up after his
heavy overcoat," said the youth. looking
up at the top of the house and rather
carefully avoiding the eye Of Mrs. Bill
Kingsley.
What on earth does he want of his
heavy overcoat?" she inquired.
'He-he's going out of town." said the
boy.
"Going out of town, eh? Did he send
note?'
Nom. He's in hurry"
''ln hurry, ehY Where is he now?"
''He--he's d-d-down to the gas office"
replied the youth, backing down couple
of steps.
"What gas officeY' inquired Mrs. Bill
Kingsley, but the boy had suddenly bolted
and was then half BLOCK away and in
creasing his lead. Mrs. Billingsley went
back into the sitting room and said to
herself: 49,. ..'
ri II do wish could have nailed that lit
tie imp. Can it be possible Billingsley il
going to elope? At@any rate he will have
to leave his heavy overcoat behind VI
+ At $50 p. nj. Billingsley arrived home
for dinner.
"A boy called for your heavy overcoat
this afternoon" observed Mrs. Billings
ley.
''Great heavens, woman! And of course
you handed it right over to him. Maria,
it does seem impossible for women to
have good sense
"N'hy, didn't you send him up to the
house after it?'
''Celtainly not. You might have known
that i would have sent note by an A.
D. T. boy. Didn't have any uniform on,
did he?"
'No," answered Mrs. B.
$50 I'm just $40 out. don't suppose
it would have made any difference it
had married any one Of your sisters. OF
course you are all alike. Must run in the
family. Maria. | can hardly believe it
possible that you could be chump enough
to- give my overcoat to an entire
stranger"
Gle said you was going out of town in
a hurry"
"Going out of town! Fiddlesticks!
Would it not have been the most natural
thing in the world for me to have inform
ed you Of the fact?"
"Perhaps so. l didn't think of that.
he said you was down at the gas Office"
"What gas Officer"
Gle didn't say. He went right away
when asked him that"
with my winter overcoat|'
"No; without it. l didn't take much
stock in his story, and he got scared"
"Say, Maria, let's have dinner.
Paul Globe.
Old Clothes For Actors.
1T is not alone the flnery Of dress that
calls for care. Old clothes are harder to
get" writes Franklin Fyles in The La
dies Home Journal. "Tattered gowns
can hardly be made to order. To merely
! tear brand new ones will not do. They
must he made to look as though worn
cut. Rubbing and staining usually pro-
auce the right effect. The men get over
this difficulty in way that the women
will not usually resort to. The actor
assigned to the role of a tramp does not
hesitate to buy a real tramp's suit.
Washing and fumigation will make it
safe to wear. IL then it looks too clean
he stains and smudges it. But the
: actress. with the sensitiveness Of her sex,
will not often put on rags like that. She
is prone to be fastidiors. too. III using
costumes that have been worn BY other
actresses"