The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22

IL seems 10 ne lnHl wv i'''N"
Is nj hand. Features of the week were
two dinner parties given by MI ana
Mrs. IL. NJ. Huntington and another by
MIR. and Mrs. G. b. Salter and Mr.. ana
Mrs. =. II. Salter.
II has been n merry winter In Nor
folk social circles, and II VIII go on
record ms one of the most delightiui
that the city has known In long time'
though for the past three or four sea
sons there has been no end of pleas
ures in this line. There have been so
many dinners and dances and lunch
cons that hosts and hostesses have
often been puzzled for open dates, ana
Il has taken keen manipulating TO get
the calendar worked out so that the
various events on the schedule dove
tailed evenly.
EAichre. as the card game, has been
by far the favorite for the season and
Il has come to prevail on many occa-y
sions where n number of guests we"o
brought together, both at luncheous
and dinners. 1t has been the snappy
six-hand game of euchre that Norfolk
played and there has been pleasure
plus wrought from its curious and err
ratio ways. It's been game wherein
luck had much to do with winning,
while courage and caution, each In
their proper and yet indefinite places,
played minor roles. On one occasion
a person who had never won prize
in her life Tor his) would start out
with phenomenal hands, progress from
table to table every time there came
a rappng, and win out with high
score, hands down. Again, player
might start out early In the game with
no luck at all, wear an unpunched
score card a quarter of the way
through the evenings play, then sud
denly get rabbits foot fortune and sail
in under the wire neck ahead of the
next highest contestant.
There's been the shouting fiend and
the over.cautious underbidder. The
shouting fiend would shout on an ace
and trust to the widow and his part
ners to hold the joker and the two bow
ers. And, if he happened to be in
luck he would win it, taking the last
trick perchance on n seven-spot of off
suit. And this is the way he Cor she)
would pilot through the shouting chan
mel, luckily missing obstacles and
clearing up souvenir at the end of
the evening without even a competitor
to cut with. And on the next occasion
this very same player, gone mad with
the shouting mania, would shout till
he was black in the face and his lungs
were sore, without ever once stearing
would hold the joker, both bowers and
ace, and some sly fox would swoop
down and draw in the final suit card
One famous shouting woman went
through whole evening long with but
one single punch on her score-card-
and companion in the shouting craze
got the same number before the night
was done.
These shouting sharks have all beer
spotted by the long suffering conserv
alive euchre players, who have beer
swung in as helpless partners count
less times, and it is said that the of
tenders are marked as targets for re
venge-neXt season.
Most of the dinners served durin!
the season have been in four courses
not counting the coffee. Some of tn
opinions which must be respected hav
declared emphatically that the coffe
ought by rights to he counted as
separate course of itself. Others, VIII
must be equally respected in thei
opinions, have declared just as en-
phatically that coffee goes along wit
the rest of the meal and that ii can
be counted as a distinct course TIL
result, so far as this Illuminating ST
cial column is concerned, has been
compromise; in the early part of tn
winter they were all five course" a
fairs, and in later days they have bee
served in -four courses" It's still
matter undetermined and it's still
compromise. For who wants to pic
a quarrel with a lot of women? II r,
mains for the debating society to st
the world straight on this vital poir
is coffee a course or is it not? An
no puns go.
The after-dinner cigar has been
notable feature of the seasons fun
tons, and especially for one of thre
classes of guests. There were the me
who smoked, the men who didn
smoke, and the ladies (who also didn
smoke) AS soon as the last cours
of the dinner-fourth or fifth as yo
will-had been served and the finge
bowls passed around, the smoker
would toss their napkins on the table
rise hastily and make bee line &c
the upstairs-for the cigar box is il
variably upstairs. He would dip int
the bunch, select rich one-for tn
dinner party cigars are the best fe
low gets to smoke-light up, begi
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