The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-16
Sally TiGg of
the rutti-frutti's
Rx WILLIAM f1EYLIGER
copyright. 1sx. by Daily Story Pub. co.,

IF THE many schmes to separate
the public from its money" said
Major Ike Gleason, commend me to
the idea of fraternity. If ever I have
a dollar that l desire to see disappear,
either wholly or in part, steer me for
a lodge room. And if the day should
ever come when I forget the hard
benevolent Sunday school 'superinten-
dent, make me president of the Sons
OF Beelzebub, or something else.
Its queer game, with more mys-
terry to the square inch than plate OF
boarding house hash. The cards are
all marked and stacked, and grim Fate
has decreed that ladies shall make the
best dealers. A man has a slim, for
Torn chance when he sits in game,
with a fellow man who wears plug
hat and sports a diamond in his tie;
but when q woman throws in her
chips, he wants to bring along an ex-
ira suit, or he'll go home without even
the protecting embrace of his own
very shirt.
Sally Tigg was case in point, and
said point was sharp. Sally was 80
and unmarried, which may account
for many things. Take spoonful Of
tobasco sauce, sprinkle it with pepper
and swallow it, and you'll have life
sized portrait of Sally. Take a Wall
street gentleman, with an eagle eye on
his neighbours wealth, and you'll have
Sally again. Then take any ordinary
old gentleman who makes practice
of minding his own business and pay
ing his rent, and you'll have what Sal
rly was not.
sally Tigg joined the Tutti-Frutti
Ladies just when they needed her
most. Money was as scarce as billy
goat whiskers, and the treasurer had
! nothing to do but look wise. For
A.; couple of meetings there was nothing
doing. Then somebody said that Sal
", poor thing, was beginning to show
her age and was getting too old for &C
! tive work, and rolling up her sleeves,
Sally spat on her hands and spared
/. for an opening.
"He1 first offering was dark horse.
/ It was concealed in bag. and the
members were to pay five cents q
{ chance, and the win0er was to bring
a dark horse for the next meeting, and
: then they were to take chances all
over again. The more dark horses,
/, the more money said Sally, and they
went at the constitution with a bowie
knife and cut out such a scandalous
+ thing as a monthly meeting, and
+ changed it to a gathering every week.
Soon the Tutti-Frutti's money was on
speaking terms with some of the
SWEETEST accounts in the bank, and at
the end of six months the society de-
! cided to give ball.
VI "Sally was the whole show. One
little girl was engaged to Perkins, a
4 printer, and Sally appointed her q
committee Of one to see to the press
work. How much 2 said the little girl
to Perkins, ard Perkins said Moth
|; ing and went to the back of the shop
Il and asked somebody to kick him.
4 Then Sally called on some of the mer-
B chants. They were looking for con-
4 tributions to rattle, she said, sweetly,
u and the first man she tried to hold up
II showed her the door, and asked her
II dill she think he was running hook
n shop, After that she used tact. Of
I; course, If a store-keeper could afford to
lose the 3Tutti-Frutti Ladies' trade he
needn't give anything, but The
merchants took the hint. First cane
} Il norris chair, then bottle of hair
\ loil. then q bunch Ut junk that would
hayel done credit tt, an iron foundry,
Y aI,d lastly a cheap wedding ring. You
! can rive IL to soMs one of the old
4 VA ladies. said tho clerk in the jew