The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-21
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HIS BACHELOR PARTY

And How His Mother Learned the De-
tails Of IT,
The bump Of ordcrllness does not seem
TO be very we'll developed In the average
man. that's probably the reason that news
papers and other offices where the iords
OF creation live and breathe nnS have their
being are most of the time in chaotic
state with the floor strewn with papers
aud the desks with letters. Even Wheu
masculnity puts things to rights they are
generally all wrong paradoNcal US thiS
Twas SO the other evening with
bachelor man who took advantage OF ms
mothers absence from the city ana OF
| the servants consequent vacation ~
| terrain a party OF friends IN the fanny
| mansion IL was only q small party,
einbt in number, and the members had
| a very good time, playing CARDS IN Tue
| library, singing coon songs IN the usaNinS
| rooms and cooking indigesuHe chauhgulSh
I daiutics In the dining ROOM helult ~!
! disperscd some of the men suggested thht
they all fall to with a Will ana help res
tore things to their pristine order' p u.
the host wouldn't near 10 this' ~ - -
clean things M himself, he said, SO that
his mother would never know her nest
china had been spun around carelessly
and her cut glass claret glasses useu lo'
Amer the had sped the last parting
rues therefore. the man put on MS pa
, iamay as the most appropriate coslun'
+ to do housework in, aud went 10 WORK
Z lie lahored until 4 a. m. I'm me righteous
t cause Of hoodwluking his maternal paiehl
p and wien he had finished, everything l'
3 his umccustomed eyes looked as splch
and-spaAdy as ever. Iheh ne "cn' ~
The bachelor man was out when MI
mother came home, two days later pu
the first thing she said 70 aim when ~
did arrive on the scene was; DID yo'
| M frna Mt
u WHO toll your asked the youth
"Niy eyee"' replied the mother I'm
L house looks as II It had been struck y
4 n cyclone The taDlecloth in the hprA''
v is on upside down, the plates on the az
II ing room table are turned wrong I
'e cut glass tumplers are In the fght ~
n OF the china closet instead OF the "a
a. there are cigar ashes and stumps OF Cf
,e over everything Though that Is not
N usual. a dish ia the closet holds III
w | sailed almonds. and you seem TO
X, wiped the kitchen tioor up with a new
IN towel while the uoor cloth mas eYlae,71
lt been used to WASH the dishes WIN, ~,
a. by jove. motheL you're regular -
10 lock Holmes" snid the unregenetate &C
admiringly 81 thought / had done i
IN mn SO brown you'd never know therd
d. heen stranger within your gates. / ~
I'd 'What would you say II / told ,
ut knew the names OF All thoSe VINO jaol
no hercY' asked this wise woman
y "Pd say, no miracles among RI :
al please for I don't clearly rememb II
pc self" -
le- ~ do" said the sibyl, and shel 81
Mt with recounted those present" y
m there's nothing supernatural about 4
de laughed as she caught sight OF n -
ar nanion's face, ~ merely iound uIis n
~, table the tally score OF me gaua
NJ. the names on II. It's eay to IN.
all this way. But the next tiuie, plcuc.
burn my best damask table Noth Anr -
lamp OF the chatting dish AVID ON. lt,
maids to scrub the Kitchen NO Fl
Won. cold water is all right IN -
hn ing bath, but Il takes sometNsu
nowerfui TO remove the status XL
OF rabbit, -, ,sty- -
ton neiieve his mother wasn't one oetE, -
be ders Of the world, so impressed NJ ~
Of hor penetration.