Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-10
STORY for an
Hole nour
A SPlNsTERs' PARTY.

Strictly on Old Maids party, given
by one in celebration of the fact"
trailed prettily after Dolores pen,
then she changed celebration 10
"glorification" and made five copies,
adding: do come and help keep the
natal eve of the oldest o. M. of the
class. Dolores"
The banjo girl responded to hers in
person and called Dolores nice Lnings,
and wormed out other that twas TO
be French dinner at Ms, at
which denouement her breath divided
itself into delightful gasps, between
two of which she conveyed the in
formation, more or less intelligently
to the ceiling, that she should dress
up within an inch of her life. Then
she initiated a kangaroo, after when
Dolores had time to think it over
alone.
Promptly next morning four accept
ances, more or less enthusiastic ac-
cording to temperament, were handed
in.
They assembled in Dolores rooms at
5; there was the teacher, known as
"Hefty," 80 and eligible, who claimed
distinction for unerring ability to
point out those doomed ones (among
the female portion of her wriggling
65) who should hereafter be known a.,
old maids. TITS in their braids,'' ex
claimed 'Hefty," land as plain at 6
as 30. Heavens what might not have
come to me had I plated looser."
And ''Hefty" was favorite
And there was the salewoman, also
80, who handled invaluable hide
ousities-wiseny metal figures with
gangrenous tendencies-and lengths (
bilgy stuffs with bad places in the
warp. Life was mostly serious with
the saleswoman-lig calculatio.l IS
in chair legs Renaissance or empire)
and studies in chrome-red cookatoos,
done in rows, had weighted her. But
the salewoman was also liked.
And there was the tin can girl, so
called by reason of much writing up-
on the product. She was eligible AMI
nervous; stray eyewinkers made whole
phrases for the tin can girl, and =
fiy's leg, out of joint a bit, stood for
might have been" so plainly that can
letters weren't worth a cent a yard
TO the man who dictated them until
tears relieved the T. c. girls nerves
again.
Also was the law represented; she
got there late on account of last of
month and statements" she told them
in an abridged way. Dolores met her
absently, by reason of much concern
with reference to seating her out of
the teachers range. Like shaking a
red rag at a bull.' she said to hair
pin. when "Hefty" directed flippant
! nothing at the last conner.
And the banjo girl, she was not
eligible in point of years, but pretty
and spontaneous, and ike spontaneity
came last. Dolores had not started
girls name wrote itself. In her heart
Dolores called her Wing Tee"-God
knows why.
A table, margined with green and
centered with Lawson pinks, was re
served for the spinster party at
| Ms. None of them had been there
before except Dolores: just once-but
that is another story. And so they
fiuttered-always excepting 'Hefty"
into seats, Dolores telegraphins
Wing Tee to sit between the law
woman and Hefty. But Wing Tee re-
fused to get the wireless and
squeezed in between Dolores and the
wall. I'm going, too" she gurgled
and showed her worries wiekedly.
you are far and away the stun
ningest woman in the whole shebang,
Dolsie." Wing Tee told Dolores during
consumme. With fish, There's a
man noticed it too, think" Shortly
after she suspended spaghetti and
whispered excitedly: He knows you.
I'm almost sure"
To all of which Dolores replied
Talk more to the law woman, for
Heavens sake,"
But ali the same the B. G. caught
her looking out the tail of her eyes
in the direction of the two men at
the table indicated. She also saw the
! blonde mans eyes meet Dolores then
something happened in Dolores IA e
that made Wing Tee go back to
olives.
AS soon as the disturbance in chit.