The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

IT heard that We was at Radigan's
ball the other night. Mrs. McGlory,
said the visitor as she drank and wiped
off her chin with her blue-check apron.
81 was there in all me glory, and !
niver had a better time in my life. I'm
thinking there's a lot Of Jealousy over
IT,"
ut was Mrs. Stribin, the Roosan on
the top f1oour, who remarked that she
met We on the stairs as yet went out,
and that we had no carriage at the
and she was right about it. and it
shows that / keep up wild the style and
the times. It's no longer the thing TO
ride to a ball in your own carriage. It's
either walk or take a street car.
And why is. that?"
ITO show off yer costume, Mrs. Fin
negan. Was any remarks made ABOUT
mine?'
some that you looked like a woman
going to market wild a goose, and by
others that you had no more taste
than an elephant. 1t was tht beanpole
of Mrs. Mccain who said that We
resembled a tub on legs"
"And what was yer own impression,
may 1 ask?"
''That We looked like a princess who
had got into the tinimint by mistake
and was sailing out agin. AS Tor the
richness of yer clothes and the way
they fitted we it made me mouth
water
''Thin have another pull at the grow
Ter. and don't choke yerself off too
soon. Mrs. Finnegan, I'm not minding
what was said. 1t was the greatest
compliment that could be paid a lady.
1t is only seventeen blocks to Radi-
gan's, you know. and Pat and me
walked the distance to show our
clothes off. 1 may say without fear of
contradiction that we were the observ-
ed of all observers. The public still
continued to look at us even when
dog fight was going on A steer had
escaped from a slaughter house and
was rampaging up and down, but he
did not draw half the crowd we did"
"And it was Mrs. O'Grady who said
you didn't know enough to enter
ballroom as a lady should
''She said that, did she? I shall
meet her on the stairs some day and
show her that I know how to pull hair
as a lady should. 1t was remark
born of spite. Let me tell We, me
frind, our entrance was another SEN
sation. and I'm expecting every mint
that the papers will come out with ex-
tras about it. AS we stand in the
doour me man Pat gives yell and
swings his hat, while I draws messeIf
up in all me stateliness. Pats yell and
me stateliness brought every eye upon
u.s. and arm in arm we entered and
marched twice around the ballroom to
soft music. Twas round after round
OF applause We SoN, anu Ie00l5ctt
self came forward to shake hands and
say that his place had niver been so
honored. Futher than that he asked
me hand for the first dance"
''And was that great honor?' ask
ed Mrs. Finnegan.
WAS it? Where in this world have
We lived not to know that Radigan
owns dance hall and two saloons.
and has a pull both wild the aldermen
and the police? Why, me frind, when
he asks lady to dance wild him it
means that her husband.s if she's got
one, is sure of a sewer contract and
a profit of $4,000. If she's a WILDLY
Radigan will have her married off
widin a year Twas the highest
honor paid me for the last tin years.
and Pat has been on a spree over it
ever since.''
but didn't we have words wild some
one afterwards, Mrs. McGlory?"
mot at all. could have had but
didn't was sitting ON a bench and
smiling and slowly slipping at me beer
when man comes up and smirks and