The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07
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young lady who had been pouring tea
at function in a suburban New Jersey
town having toward the end of the af
fair become somewhat fatigued, sat down
in a quiet corner of the room, where, says
the New York Times, she witnessed the
following incident:
young man came in and made his
way to the hostess, greeting her and
apologizing for his lateness.
"Awfully glad to see you, Mr. Blank, :"
said the hostess. so good of you to
come. And all the way from New York,
too But where is your brother?"
Il am commissioned to tender his re-
grets. You see, we are so busy just now
that it was impossible for both of us to
get away, and so we tossed up to see
which of us should come"
How nice! Such an original idea!
And you won"
mo. said the young man, absently;
81 lost"
! That was a novel expedient by which
one young woman was enabled to see
King Edward during the coronation crush
in London Her story shows the value
of diplomacy. II was right behind,
ma am, she said, relating her experience
to her mistress. oh, 1 said, 4 shan't
see anything in this crowd And then
young man that 1 hadn't noticed said:
Why don't you faint?' Faint | said.
who's going to faint?' and then he up
and calls: Here's young woman faint
irg!' And a p'liceman come through and
they carried me right to the front. l
ed the p'liceman.''
M. A. Brisson, the French writer, re-
lates an anecdote of a we'll known
Frenchman, an octogenarian, who spent
most of his time in his younger days in
Paris hunting up valuable books among
the secondhand ,bookshops. He was a
bachelor. and for a housekeeper had an
extremely plain woman who, however, had
caught from her master the taste for old
books. One day the housekeeper appear
ed with a parcel of books wrapped in
paper and asked her master to look at
them. Among the rubbish was a small
volume in red morocco. What have you
paid for this?" the master gasped. after
looking at the title page. Thirty sous
for the lot" the servant replied. But
10000 francs!" the biblomaniac went on.
and the moment after regretted the I'M
wise speech iii give you 100 francs for
it, he said But monsieur said just now
that it was worth 10000" 'I'H give you,
500" mo, no. ''Seyen hundred and
fifty" But it was no use. and, to, make
long story short, the master married
her in order to obtain the first edition
at was through the telephone they met
and now they are married." says special
from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
'She was Miss Ada Thompson, Is years
old, the hello girl in the telephone of
fee in this place, while he was Charles
L. Knapp, station agent, telegraph oper-
ator baggage master and general mana
ger of the Long Island Railroad terminal
here.
1T was case of love at first talk /
and the more they talked the deeper in
love they fell. Finally Mr.. Knapp pro-
posed, and the voice at the other end /,
absent mindely inquired:
What number? Busy Oh, it is you, !
Charlie? Ask mamma. Think so? Well |
you know best. Must answer now? Oh |
this is so sudden. You're Just awful |
Must answer now? Well, I'll fix the day |
See you tonight? Will l see you tonight? |
Oh you-you'-
'At this point the cynical bachelor who |
managed to get in on the line dropped |
the receiver in anguish
Thursday of last week Miss Thompson |
took into her confidence her friend, Miss
Alice Stubs, hello" girl at Great Neck.
Then they found Rev. Charles L. New
bold of Christ Episcopal church, of Man
hasset, and Miss Thompson became Mrs.
Knapp"
whats that IS kept out of my salary
for?" demanded the employee of the State
institution.
That's your voluntary contribution for
campaign purposes, blandly replied the
superintendent.
But it isn't voluntary contribution.
You've no right to hold it out on me.
That wasn't in the bargain. l never
heard anything about it before. 1t is a
gouge and l won't stand it!'
But you have to pay it, you know, or
lose your job. Does it go?"
Yves
Chicago Tribune.
Here is a unique announcement to can
didacy for office which appears in the
Kiowa (Kan.) Signal:
in announcing myself as a candidate
for Register of Deeds for Kiowa county,
subject to the decision of the Republi-
can county convention in September / do
not do it at the earnest request of a large
number of friends, nor has there been a
delegation OF the most prominent citizens