The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-24

waste paper receptacle finally. she
made haste to put it to proper use.
Then lightened of heart and with easy
conscience, she passed gayly on her
way.
The place of meeting was reached in
due order the earlier part of the pro-
gramme, which had already COM
menced when she made her appear
ance, was thoroughly enjoyed. Then,
hearing her own name called, the
clean city" enthusiast stepped to the
platform, bowed to the presiding Off
Ger and the audience, and prepared to
read the paper she had been request
ed and had consented to prepare.
And then, to her unmitigated aston
ishment and annoyance, she found that
the paper was missing. She had
thrown in into the waste paper recep-
tacle instead of the soiled and crumpled
fragment she had intended to dispose
of, and the latter was now in her hand!
Being woman of good sense. ingen-
uity and cleverness, she made the best
of a bad situation, and told the anus
ing story of her afternoons discomfit-
ure. And her fellow club women, aft
er they had laughed themselves
hoarse and side-weary over the wit and
cleverness of her recital, unanimously
voted to buy her a new pair of white
6lONCS dS a AAGCl CIV VI LII
the loyal and unremitting devotion to
the cause of a clean city that had cost
them so dear.
"A certain Chicago woman, we'll
known, beloved and popular, recently
met in society here a woman whom she
had known in her early girlhood, and
whose reputation for gossiping is most
fully grown. The club woman, serene
and happy, thought nothing of the
meeting until it was reported to her
quietly that the newcomer was hint
ing at some story of girlish mischief or
foolishness on the part of the club
woman in such a manner as to make it
seem of unduly grave importance. The
club woman, after careful thought and
attempts at recollection, recalled three
trifling mistakes of her youth-she had
once been caught wading, with some
other girls, by a party of masculine
comrades, she had once run away from
church to go walking with the man she
afterward married, she had once, at a
boarding school party, donned her
brothers clothes. OF which of these
long-gone trifies was her antagonist,
revenging an old and fancied injury,
making much?
Months passed, and still she could
not run down the story, nor could she
ever catch Mrs. B. in the act of at
tempting to destroy her youthful repu-
tation. But at last fate favored her.
She attended a semi-social entertain
ment at which Mrs. b. was also pres
ent, and, leaving early Intentionally,
babe her hostess good by. Fastening
quietly back, after a brief interval, she
walked into the room suddenly and
confronted Mrs. B.
That story. like the Others you have
been telling about me, is utterly and
entirely untrue, Mrs. b. she remarked,
quietly but clearly, and shall have to
ask you to tell 1t over again, please,
so that l max check off my account of
it with yours
Mrs B., of course, retreated in bad
order, completely routed and put to ST.
lence. and the episode closed for the
women she had victimized, but here is
the problem. Which of the three sto-
ries did the victimized woman overhear,
after all? None of them. Her success
full and triumphant second entry and
the vigorous announcement were all the
result of a brilliant inspiration, a
bluff"