The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-09-09

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en- jostled each other to get in their
places for the seventh. Mrs. sparrow
glared at her lev partner, Mrs. Gray
Owl, who played sleepily, and Mrs.
Hawk wore the look Of q martyr when
she found herself for the third time
opposite Mrs. Bluejay, who, 1t trans
PRED, had never played euchre before.
and had come innocently expecting to |
be shown how. She was.
At last Taps sounded, and then
the real excitement began; what had
gone before was merely preliminary.
Before the last note of the bugle had
died away the prize table looked like
a bargain counter. No third-rate de-
partment store aver held a more ex-
cited, Observation-Disclosures
to-get-left crowd than that collection
Of ~gorgeously gowned women wearing
jewels enough to have decked an In
dian temple. And the Only Man was
in the thick of the fray. In vain the
prize committee and the hotel attend
ants who had been called in to help
preserve order tried to keep the wom-
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though there would be a wholesale run
on the prizes; but at the crucial mo-
ment Mrs. Catbird's commanding voice
made itself heard.
Ladies, ladies', remember you are
ladies!'
The throng fell back an inch or
two, slightly disheveled and less than
slightly ashamed.
Once under control, the crowd was
managed, though with no little diff
Guilty, and the prizes were finally dis
tributed. While they waited the i'm
patient ones RECALLED another with
their woes.
MY dear, l dislike quarreling, espe.
cially over cards, but you can't lot
people walk v you"
mo, of course you can't" This
was from my dear little bluebird, who
looked worn out.
The last prize left was a case of
mineral water.
ooh, | don't want that" said the
woman who was entitled to 1t, in a dis
appointed tone.
I'll take it, them" says the next n
on the list, and up she steps and
claims the case. My, wasn't the first
woman mad as a wet hen, though!
The Only Man won the silk stock
ings, and the old maid got the smok-
ing set. Perhaps, who knows, 1t
proved a mascot?
At last it vas all over, and a nice
condition those m were in to go
home to their families. Drunk as
lords, all Of them. Not with liquor,
oh, dear, no. There hadn't been a
drop of anything but water at the
Kindness clubs euchre. They were
drunk with excitement and bad air
and the mad riot of color they made.
And more than all, they were drunk
and drugged with WEAKNESS.
watched the Only Man buy tickets
for six other euchrss.
On the way to the cloakroom Mrs.
!, Catbird stopped me.
| Nov deal gently with is, won't you,
sweetheart?" she entreated. Some of
, these women acted shamefully about
the prizes, but you know euchres are
r given to raise money, so we can't be
; too particular about the people to
+ whom tickets are sold. But you will
= be kind to us, won't you?"
: l smiled. Oh, I meant to be kind
all right, as a surgeon is or a dentist
meant to give each n of those
women a chance to see herself as she
\ looked to the only M person there
when the game broke up.
My, how good the fresh air felt
when l got outside!
Still, that euchre was a great
+ achievement. l heard afterward thai
= it netted 5000 for the orphans and II
certainly won me a regular position
q on the paper.
The world wouldn't move quite al
> fast if it depended OF some people VI
. know to push it along.