Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-11
BE not unmindful to en-
(: terrain strangers, for there
F.: by some have entertained
: angels unawares.

....................,...... ......
Captain Whitlow is particularly
fond of angels, and he and his esti-
mable wife gladly took under their
care and keeping a bevy Of femi-
ninity bordering on the angelic last
Friday night when they made their
appearance in the ladies waiting
room Of that popular hostelry.
A quintette of young bachelor,
on fun and mystery bent (the small
number may lead one to think them
SELFISH, had organized a club COM
posed entirely of themselves. They
called their organization the Elton
Club" (Which, icing translated into
English, means Eat on), and had
made arrangements to feed a score
of invited guests. The highly select
club had sent formal invitations to
certain young ladies to attend some
thing at the hotel, stating that es-
corts would be provided.
Some, if not all, of those invited
had seen Laurant at the Tabernacle
two nights before, and probably had
not forgotten Mrs. Laurant's very
mysterious" disappearance from
the casket and the Pickering flames
that arose from the box in which she
had been enclosed. So, amid their
cogitations and talks over the phone
they realizing that leap-year is still
two years off, and determined to
even up with the bachelors cveryOr e
of whom is able to take good care of
a wife-fxed up a scheme cf
their own that might scare some of
the timid bachelors out of their wits
and thus lead them TO propose
as none Of them would have been
accepted. it didn't matter whom of
the eighteen might be the lucky"
ones.
AT the conventional hour the five
bachelors started out to take their
invited guests to the banqueting
place, but upon arriving at their
homes found that the young ladies
were not at home,' and then be-
took themselves to. the handsome
parlors of the hotel, wondering
what was to De the outcome of their
secret arrangements. Soon eighteen
spooks, with human forms, made
their appearance, wrapped in sheets
wound about them. concealing their
faces. Not word was spoken by
the ghostly assemblage, and they
were led into the dining room and
seated around the festival board.
When the first course was laid the
spooks threw aside the imaginary
habiliments of the spirit world, and
the ghostly guests, with the dexteri-
ty of Laurant, were transformed
into angels, minus the wings, and
faces radiant with fun and bright
eyes sparkling with the success of
their coup.
1t was truly an Eaton feast, for as
fast as one course was disposed of
the angelic guests moved to the fine
tables one after another until they
had gone round the entire board.
Then came post-feast speeches,
Acknowledging the Corn" by the
hosts, and other features, which
made the first evening Of the Eaton
club never to be forgotten. The
other four tried to make the fair
guests believe that only the aim to
force Jim Young to marry had
prompted them to the desperate eff
fort that had been made. The guest:
took this assurance with "a gooC
deal Of water" and do not think tina
the popular young man had beet
'tricked" by his brother members
However the trick worked SO wei
that Mr.. Young then and there pro
missed to marry during the year i
one Of the angels present would hav
him.
TN. eoiIo,,,;v,o. ,,o,,,c. lod;as u,a,.