Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-21

SHE WILL LOOK AFTER ME HER
SELF-OR. THAT is TO say"
voices began to whisper in the ears
of those whose habits were most reg
ular, warning them that it was high
time they betook themselves to bed,
the plans for the morrow were fairly
complete.
The day dawned bright and clear.
! The snow was fine and hard and gave
back a thousand sparkles for every
! glance from the bedroom window of
! the early riser. The ladies of Swami
pucket knew nothing of what was in
! store for them, but rose early to finish
| their New Years cake and candy MAX
! ing and to attend to the thousand de-
! tails of this day of nut cracking, and
| corn popping, and apple baking. Soon
after breakfast numerous tall and SOM
| Der figures, but all with sprightly gaits,
| might have been seen vending their
way to common rendezvous at The
Bachelor club, and doubtless they were
noticed by many, but the real alarm
! did not begin to be sounded by Swami
! pucket society until the doorbells be-
! gan tingle, tingle, tingle, that grew
more frequent as the day were on.
Her first caller took Miss Clarissa
! Frey entirely by surprise AS she aft
erwards explained, she felt as if the
tide of time had taken her up bodily
and set her back 80 years. When the
doorbeli rang she was not prepared
! for callers, being dressed, indeed in
her wrapper; but when a peek through
side window had revealed the fact
that her caller (world on endD was
Mr.. Emmet Keene, dressed in keeping
with bygone style of chivalry which
she well remembered, even to the far
ing white collar and black tie and the
gold-headed cane, she flew with maid
emily agitation to the very garret. Ieav-
! ing his admittance to others while she
alive to the spirit of the occasion
| decked herself out with a wonder of .
hoop skirt which her niece Phoebe
! had planned to wear that very night
at New Years amateur play Emmet
Keene never had got ahead of Clarissa
Frey. and he wouldn't do so at this
! late day if she could help il.
Mr.. Keene was somewhat taken abacl,
when, after a considerable delay. there
! entered the drawing-room an apnari-
tion that seemed to have a double In
| the storehouse of his memory. Ue
| tried to account for so years gone nv
but for the life of him could not mako
! 1t more than 20 in the figure befora
| him. He had to admit. as he had dona
in times past, that Clarissa Frey was
a remarkable woman. After the ev-
! change of New Years greetings and
/ gossip Mr., Keene tried 10 eyplain tho
/ organization and purposes of tba now
/ bureau of chivalry. "a new-er-5a-
parture Of the Bachelor club" as no
1 explained. with nervousness prt
somehow the point didn't carry. Nv
I inadvertent mention of the fact tbat
/ the departure was founded upon The
much discussed plea for protection
/ from Mrs. Dexter Bloom. he fogud
himself launched upon dcep and
ethical discussion OF women's cubs
I which ended only with the tinpla of
The dnorhell announcing the arrival
~ a fellow clubman and ,udicpt,ng
that Nj. keeue was not properly ap-
portiouing The time AZ his dIsrasaI
among The members OF tho fair sex
On his list
Mrs neNtor Bloom was a widow of
considerable dignity aud ag.ressiye
intellect lt cannot le said thit she
revealed any signs of agitation uaen
Gen FrIesble Virgins waa announced