The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-07
MRS. AIcGLORY TALKS.
AErs. Finnegan Brings Her Further
Gossip to Explain Away.

"And so it's you, Mrs. Finnegan?''
Queried Mrs. McGlOry, as she answered
a knock at the door of her apartments
and found her neighbor standing there.
walk in and take a chair. You will
excuse me state Of dish-a-b belly whin
say that 1 run a carpet tack into the
sole of me foot as I got out of bed this
morning I suppose the mudsills Of
Dilnison's Iiniment are stIl finding
something to say agin their betters o.
Just a word now ana thin, Mrs Nc
Glory, but its nothing that a real lady
like you need mind. Didn't you tell me
that the word dish-abelly was French2"
ITS one OF the biggest words used
over there by the aristOcracy, Mrs. Ffrf-
negan, and the meaning of it is having
on your old clothes or very little clothes
at all. A lady is said to be In dish
abelly when she leaves her boudOir in
an old commonly to cook her husbands
breakfast and wash the dishes. Don't
heaVe sigh and wish that you were
dish-abelly lady, me friend. Being a
lady has its drawbacks as well as being
a Chump."
And is 1t q chump ye would make
me out, Mrs. McGlory?"
Not at all. Sit down agin and don't
be so touchy. I was simply speaking
in the abstract and that word abstract
is Latin and means nothing at all. So
there's more gossip, eh2'
''They are saying, Mrs. AIcGlory, that
yer man Pat was brought home drunk
on a dray three nights ago, and that
whin he recovered his compOsure a bit
he turned in wild the ak and smashed
up most of the furniture. I'm not say
ing that I believe a word of it meself
mind ye, but We was asking after the
gossip and I'm giving It to ye."
And they are talking that, are they
the miserable mudsills, Wid niver a one
among EN- who knows enough to lift
her foot to the hub of a wagon wheel on
the street and tie her shoe as a lady
shOuld I'm not caring rap what they
say, but being you are me good frind,
and being You are here, I'll condescend
to make an explanation. y e may have
heard Mrs. Ffnnegan. that me man Pat
got news of his uncle's death in Ireland
q few days agO2"
"If / didn't I'll take your word for it.
4'm knowing that people die in ireland
as well as elsewhere"
And it may be no news to ye that
Pat is tinder-hearted as a. spring chick
en2 Let him but hear OF the death Of
a relative and his heart begins to swell
and his tears to fail. Thin he goes out
10 tell his friends, and OF course they
ask him to take a drink and brace up.
We know how it is ourselves. Mrs. Fin
negan. Whin things have gone wrong
wild US and we SIM out the growler we
soon begin to chirl1~up and find that all
is not lost after ALL"
I'm a-follerin' of yees, Mrs. Nc
j
Bon jour. which is French for say
ing that we've got sinse in yer head, al
though the hair on top of it is growing
rather thin. Well, as ] was saying. me
man Patrick gets word that his Uncle
karney is dead, and the usual feeling
comes over him. He sits around and
signs and weeDs for a time and then
goes out and the boys ask him to take
q bracer. Do you see anything in that
for gossip. me frind? ?"
Not the slightest"
Don't every wOman's man do the
same thing whin he hears of the death
Of his uncle2'
He surely does. or he's a heathen.,
Me man Pat, he feels so bad and he
meets so many of his frinds that. come
gen O'Clock at night, he was in what
Nney calls a state Of inebriatiOn.'
And what in the divirs name NAV
that be- Mrs. McGlory2 Is it another
French word ?"
Il am not quite sure, but it may be
The meaning Of il is that man is
sWizzled. and the meaning of swizzIed
IS that the nervous system is temnora-
rily out of order The mixing together
OF sorrow and brandy is what produces
It. Pat got into a state of inebriation
a mile or more from home, and the first
idea of his frinds was to telephone r1e
and have me sind the carriage Me te1e-
phone was out of order and so that
plan failed. Thin a good frind of Pats
who was coming this way wild his draw
volunteers to bring him sfGely to his
own dour- Wouldn't you 90 that much
for frind, Mrs. Finnegan2''
"Indade, thin. but I would"
II was sitting here wild me feet on
the stove and a. book in me hand whin
the inebriated arrived and the draynan
walks upstairs and notifies me. The but
Ter is out and the footman is out and
60 I'm obliged to 90 down and help