The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
THE EVENING STORY
What the Monitor Said.
(By Stuart B. Stone.)


On Friday, June IA, the Merryville
Semi-W Weekly Monitor had this under
heard on the Streets:
MISS Edna Murray of Merchants
ourg is expected to visit the Lindleys.
MISS Murray is great favorite in
and is closely related to the famous
van Twillenberg and De Giraffe fami-
lies of New. York
Separated from the above only by
the announcement that Hank Bosley
had chills, was the. following:
we regret that Merryville is to lose
one or her most brilliant young law
yers, Robert Lee Sherman. Mr..
Sherman has received fiattering offers
from the Associated Shoe Polish cor
poration and from the National Stove
Plpe concern, both of New York"
Inc next day ]. Hampton Lindley,
editor of the Semi-Weekly Monitor,
had two visitors. The first was a
bounteous hair of bronze glinting
puffed out from beneath a wide hat
where red cherries bobbed constantly
as she tossed her pretty head; her
m1schlevous hazel eyes were rather
grave as she shook a blue parasol at
the merry editor
Uncle Hamp, why did you write all
that Van Twillenberg nonsense? You
wretch = prevaricator = Munchausen
Come to ORDER chuckled Mr. Lind
ley. You asked me for a puff. You
didn't limit me as to copy, display,
space, type, color of ink nor position"
Ten minutes after Miss Murray's,
departure tall well-formed young
man entered the Monitor sanctum.
Hello, ]. Hampton he said. 81
asked you for a neat, little puff
that would help me in the city I
didn't expect to be featured as COM
ing attorney general
The editor slapped him a stunning
blow on the back. You're a good
boy. Bob he declared, land I stand
by my friends
That afternoon the Hon. Robert Lee
Sherman walked the length of sleepy,
shady Main street with his friend, the
editor of the Monitor. They were
passing the editors pleasant cottage
and a fluffy vision in blue lounged in
a wicker chair on the lawn. Young
Sherman stopped abruptly and stared.
why don't you say something about
it when you have strange. divinely
beautiful lady paragons at your
home?" he demanded
"Oh, that's my niece, Edna Murray
from Merchandising
1.-The Van Twillenberg girl?" asked
sherman, with interest.
Lindley dodded. when did you say
you were going?"
"In week or So" answered Sher-
man, absently. There's no hurry"
In its next issue the Merryville Mon
HOT printed tn1S.
Hon. Robert Lee Sherman has
postponed his departure because of
the proffer of extremely lucrative
positions from the American Darning
Needle Syndicate and the Amalga-
mated Roof Paint Corporation, which
leave him very undecided. Mr.. Sher-
man has already been elected to
membership in the Elite and Diedrich
clubs and will take a leading part in
the social festivities of the metropo-
lis
Further down. between "Joe Joyce
has gone to Peonia" and "Bibb Dobbs
has four nice pigs for sale,' this ap-
peared:
Miss Edna Murray, of Merchants
burg, arrived last week to visit the
family of the editor. Miss Murray
| comes direct from a house party
port She Will remain some time.
resting from the severe strain of life
! in the ultra-smart set
That evening Mr.: Sherman was in
troduced to Miss Murray by his reck-
less friend the editor. Edna Muir
| rays natural charm was enhanced by
a flush in her cheek as she murmur-
ed: I've been reading about you in
the Monitor Mr.. Sherman. You will
certainly have a gay time in club and
social circles this winter
Sherman squirmed uneasi1y. "Ahem
-er-yes-possibly I may run across
you in the height of the season" This
time Miss Murray squirmed.
Mr.. Sherman postponed his descent
upon the city again and again, and
each time the Monitor ascribed
| the postponement to new, f1attering
offers and elected him to every fash
| ionable club in Gotham. His visits
at the Lindley cottage attained the
! rate of once a day, although the
Monitors continual boasting regard
| ing Miss Murray's social triumphs
bore in upon him his utter unworth-
mess to aspire so high.
| In turn Miss Murray became ex-
| ceedingly- reserved, feeling her i'm
| position upon so great a man. Sher-
| man, noticing this and realizing the
falsity of his position, grew reserved
also. He had almost determined ac-
| tually to depart-corporation or no
corporations. Van Twillenberg girls
| or no-when the Merryyil1e Monitor
Haunted this:
Misses Nellie Cartier, Gladys
Clarcke and Bettye Jenkynes, of Mer-
ehantsburg, will spend the week end
with Miss Edna Murray. Miss Muir
ray will entertain Friday evening in
honor of her guests, who have just
returned from spending the summer
with Lady Wintrest, at Glennerwyth
Castle, Surrey"
Also the Monitor" printed this:
Count Antonio Fragioletti, of Tur-
in, Italy, will be the guest of Mrs.
BENJAMIN TompkinS this week. The
Tompkinses met Count Fragioletti on
the Riviera this summer
This last item was very true.
BY the evening of the party Misses
Cartier, Clarcke and Jenkynes had
read the Merryville Monitor on the
virtues of the Honorable Mr.. Sher-
man. Likewise Count Antonio
Fragfoletti, who owed huge debts,
had learned of the golden glory of
Miss Murray.
"Say, do you know I always liked
Iawyers!" observed Nellie Carter
alias Cartier. Misses clark and Jenk-
ms. who were neighboring clerks and
sold ribbons at the counter next to
Miss Carter, looked luringly at young
Sherman and said with sigh. TELL
me about all your clubs. Mr.. Sher-