Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-09-24
Sally Tigg Of
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tcopyright, 1904. BY DAILY story Pub. Co..

THE many schmes to separate
the public from its money" said
Major Ike Gleason, commend me to
the idea of fraternity. II ever l have
q dollar that l desire to see disappear.
either wholly or in part. steer me for
q lodge room. And if the day should
ever come when l forget the hard
truths | learned across the knee of a
benevolent Sunday school superinten-
dent, make me president of the Sons
Of Beelzebub. or something else.
Its a queer game. with more mys-
terry TO the square inch than a 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 n slim. for
lorn chance when he sits in game
with fellow man who wears n plug
hat and sports a diamond in his tie:
but when 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. anG
said point was sharp. Sally was 80
and unmarried, which may account
Tor many things. Take spoonful OF
tobasco sauce. sprinkle il with pepper
and swallow it. and you'll have a life
sized portrait of Sally. Take a Wall
street gentleman, with an eagle eye on
his neighbours wealth, and you'n have
Sally again. Then take any ordinary
old gentleman who makes a practice
4, ..
ing his rent. and you'll have what Sal
1y was not.
sally Tisg joined the Tutti-Frutti
Ladies just when they needed her
most Money was as scarce as billy
goat whislers. and the treasurer hs'
nothing to do but look wise For
couple of meetings there was nothing
doing. Then somebody said that Sal
ly, poor thing. was beginning to show
her age and was getting too old for ac-
tive work. and rolling up her sleeves,
Sally spat on her hands and SPARED
for an opening.
Her first offering was a dark horse.
1t was concealed in a bag, and the
members were TO pay FIVE cents a
chance, and the winner 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 ont such a scandalouS
thing as a monthly meeting, and
changed it to a gathering every week.
Soon the Tutti-Frutt'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.
Sally was the whole show One
little girl was engaged TO Perkins,
printer, and Sally appointed her a
committee of one to see TO the press
work. How much?' said the little girl
to Perkins, and Perkins said Moth
Ing and went TO the back of the shop
and asked somebody TO kick him.
Then Sally called on some of the mer-
chants. They were looking for con-
tributions to rattle, she said, sweetly,
and the first man she tried to hold up
showed hSF the door, and asked her
did she think he was running a hook
shop. After that she used tact OF
course, if store-keeper could afford to
lose the Tutt-Frutti Ladies' trade he
needn't give anything, but The
merchants took the hint First came
morris chair, then, a bottle OF hair
oil. then a bunch OF junk that would
have done credit to an iron foundry,
and lastly cheap wedding ring. You
can give it to some one of the old
maid ladies' said the clerk in the jew
elry Store. sally never spoke to him
again.
"The society called on the editor of