The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
CHIN ME FADDEN.
ON THE DIPLOMACY OF WOMEN.
By EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.

$1,000 O- NOAA 0O~C
foolish poissons dat n save it.
Money is no good if you don't nave it,
is II? If it is only good to spend, why
take all de trouble to get 1T? No,
Master Cheems, if you have one You
have saE-respect-de only ting dat you
can buy wit money. and at de same
time not spend de money. Dere should
be a law dat man should make all de
money he can-and give it all to his
wife. OATS de only way he can buy
happiness"
1 was a foolish fellow to come to d
= clinch wit Duchess on dat PROPOSE
ton; for no matter how good a ar
gument l put up, Duches gets de de-
cision, and de poisse; she beng referee
and stakeholder, bote.
But 1 was going to tell you about
Willy Wildly. She is not de kind of a
player dat sits on de club house YER
andy waiting for a easy mark to go
around de links wit her. If de one
she wants won't play, she'll be in a
game if it's Only~-a loHesome-dough
1QQcSomes come her way swifter dan
any odder. So when Whlskers got
shy, Wildly was as gaily as any
gOil in de county. Duchess tried her
best to get Miss Fannie to drag Wits
kerS over to Widdy'S cottage, so dat
he could see what a push was dere at
WiddyS lunches and teas, II dat she
wasn't sentenced to be a wildly a day
longer dan she wanted to be. But
Whiskers ducked.
1T is of de a~gravate!" says Ouch
\ esS. 1T is dat if Whiskers see Madam
Harding in company wit anodder, den
he is Of de sentiment urgent. But if
/ he will not go where he see dat many
men admire her, what can one do?"
"One can guess again." l says. Let
your betters alone. and fix it wild
Housekeeper to cave Maggie have dis
evening off, for me fren de 6arkeep Is
coming down dis evening, and We'll
taEe a stroll up de pike wit him and
Maggie"
Duchess never said a void in an
swer to dat. and l had a right to be
! leary, for when a woman won't talk,
/ even If h has Il cue, it's time for a
man to get his guard up, and Timber
his legs for a quick side step. Me
fren comes down by de early evening
train, and coachy lends me de station
wagon to fetch him: de folks being at
dinner and not seeing me make de
sneak wit de wagon. When I was in
de housekeeper's room, having a bite,
and a mug of de buffers ale to wash
de cinders out of me frens troat,
| Duchess chases me off, and den it was
she puts UP her job. Wildly had been
giving Duchess a lot of dudS, and
p'chee! If she didn't rig Maggie up
in EN- till she was a dead ringer for
| Widdy-only dat Maggie, in one of
dose new straight up and down cor
sets was asking wouldn't she break
like a lamp chimney if she sat down.
Me fren was looking like ready
money, too; for his lid and blanket
would pass HIM at a hundred yards
for a broker on de right side of de
market.
Take me out of dis corset, Ouch
ess, DEAR" Maggie was saying. For
de I'VE of heaven! take me out before
I die. 1 feel like 1 vas boarded up
like l was boxed for de eXpressman to
take away
"Vous etes tres charmante!' says
Duchess, putting on poor goll a wrap
Wildly used to wear. Don't holo
your skirt like a mouse was chasing
YOU. Look, hold it like this and she
shows Maggie how to hold her skirt
like she was going to wrap herself up
in it if dere was enough of it.
whats doing?" I says, when 1 sees
desc tings.
It's a play" says Duchess.
who's to be played?"
Come wit me, and say noting"
Duchess says, and de four of US chases
out to de road by de lane. Den
Duchess n me goes over to de odder
sic Of de road, and me fren n Mag
gle Waltzes along by deirselves, and,
say, dey was so like Wildly and some
swell Johnnie, dat I'd a yelled, only
Duchess pinched me.
1t vas near dark when Whlskers
comes out from dinner. and starts Off
for a stroll to the yacht clubhouse
to trash out de cup races once more.
| AS soon as he cops Maggie and me
fren, he starts like he was going to
! cross de road, but den he seems to
tink dat wouldn't do, and he keeps
on; n when he passes dem he hists
his lid; me fren hists hid and dat
sassy Bowery goil, Maggie, sweeps a
bow dat makes her look more like de
Wildly dan de close did. Whiskers
went on his way, and de cuple makes
a hurry sneak wit Is back to de
house, where Maggie gets out of her
swell rags, and into her own close;
and den de four of us starts off up de
pike. Pretty oon butler runs Us
down, and asks me didn't 1 know dat
l was due at de house, for dere was
to be bridge, n me being second
| man, it was up to me to be IN call if
Mr.. Paul would want a small bottle.
Say, before 1 gets a ring to go to