The Washington herald., 1909-02-14
SVELLOCKASHIOI
Miss Amelia Duessr, Our Raining
SasSistT Queen, Winds Up the
BingViIIs Social WhiT Season With
a BTiIBunt FunekShiun -Thisfs
Has Also PTsssnt-PartickIsrs
Below

The gay social function season Of
BIngvllle wound up last Wednesday evg
with one OF the most grsndeSt o.
cashions which has ever been oeroe-
trsted IN our midst sinst society v-7S
lrst disckovered in Bingville manv
years ago.
This oocaShion vas q swell party and
taftee pull gived By Miss Amelia Tucker
our reIning society queen and social
tunckuon leader. at her residence on
Main 81, Bingyille, date above ment-
shioned between the hours Of ! and II
r NJ You can make up your mind that
tins was d pretty bong tong affare 10
keep people IN Bingville I'D as late q
II r NJ, whereas most evg. parties
breaks up about g Miss Amelia sent
out SpeshIal invites week previus 70
~ ladies' and 10 gents in Bingville and
yIsIniiy and no regrets were sent, all
beng present to- the party IN person.
The gests arrived BY ! O'Clock and
assembled IN the parlor. where they set
around IN a circkie with their hands in
their laps, drest up in their Sunday best
and uncomfortable Now and then some
body would spunck Up cursge and break
the awful silence wich brooded over
the room, but most evrybody was afrsde
to say much being as the party was
such formal afare.
Things became a little more free and
easy when Amelia asked them as was
present to come out to the kitchen and
partlslp2te IN the taffee making. No
laSses was the medium used to make
the taffee with, and when It come time
TO pull the taffee. both ladies' and gents
participated Glenn Hines went to throw
a gob OF soft taffee at Sim Wilkins
Just for joke, but missed Sim and
hit Sally HoSkins on top the he'd. the
taffee adheaTing so firmly that Sally IS
still wearing It and II looks as If she
would hev to hcY hsT hair shingled TO
get shet OF il. Sally and Clem was
pretty sweet on each other until this
happened, but now It IS rumored that
there love Is waning.
When the taffee was so tuff that Il
eouldent be pulled no longer, It was
cut INTO sticks and placed on plates in
the snow outside the kitchen door 10
cool The young people repaired to the
parloT, where they INDUCED in varius /
games, such as orthurs, postoFice, drop
the hankercIif and Copenhagen-Copsn- |
hagen being the most popular. Bve and /
bye, Miss Amelia went Quito see II the
taffee was cooled enuff TO eat, and pres
emily she come back into the parlor and |
gasped:
The tafTee is stole!"
ConStcTnatShion reined sooDremc
among the assembled gests and there
was cast over the festivity wet blanket. /
as you mite say. Soon as the gests re
covered from their surprise, they rushed 4
from the house with great presents OF /
mind and endevOred to foller the tracks /
OF the feend in human form who had 1
stole the taffec, but in this they was IN
sucksessful being as there was 50 many
traks Of yarius kinds leading in al d.
rectshions.
Miss Amelia broke down and wept
She felt offul mortified to have the
taffee all stole with. no molasscs to make
any more and nothin else in the house
TO offer them to eat. The geStS dispersed
to their varius homes IN deep disgust
LATER-Seth Dewberrv. our lion
harted constable. was put on the case
OF the stolen taffce next morning after
the party. Seth has ben dom diIigent
detecktiye work, but has not yet dis