Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-10-08
Her Stroke Of
Business

turned from your wedding journey"
said the friend of a June bride when
the two met In a down town store.
I'VE arrived day before yesterday"
said the new Mrs. Latour, gazing alb
stractedly into space and speaking
with a marked absence of her accus-
toned vivacity
You seem different, somehow" OBJ
served her friend. Il hope you are
happy"
"Of course am happy" flushed Mrs.
Latour. Phil is a perfect dear and l
am absolutely blissful"
You don't look it," averred her
friend, bluntly.
ITO tell the truth, am terribly an
noyed at this moment" confessed Hrs.
Latour. you know that we had
great many handsome wedding pres
ents, but there was one article that I
perfectly detested. 1t was a silver
ice pitcher with goblets to match"
Il remember IT," said the friend.
TT was decorated with Bacchus
dancing with nymphs. l heard some
one wondering what business Bacchus
| had on a receptacle for anything so
mild as ice water when he is supposed
to be particularly interested In strong
er liquids"
Precisely" agreed Mrs. Latour.
Nothing about the old thing was APP
propriate, and nobody's using ice pitch
ers now anyway.
THAT pitcher" continued the bride,
was given me by Mrs Wilbur Merle
Brown, whom wouldn't have invited
II mother had not insisted upon it, for
I don't like her, and never did.
thought about that ice pitcher at in
tervals during our wedding journey,
and | made up my mind that | would
sell It if possible and with the pro-
ceeds buy something | really wanted
That was sensible" said her friend
Il am sure you will never regret it,"
Wait and hear the rest. found a
place where they would consider the
purchase of 1t and I have just come
from there. The pitcher and the COB
lets were on the counter. The propri-
etor of the shop had examined them
and had mentioned my price, when
he was called to the telephone. Just
at that moment who should come sail
ing up the counter but Mrs. Merle
Browhei"
What a situation!" said her friend,
laughing.
You wouldn't feel like laughing II
| It had been YOU" declared Mrs. La
tour in aggrieved tones. Il turned my
back squarely to the counter, hoping
to conceal that towering pitcher from
Mrs. Merle-Brown, whom I greeted
.effusively.
81 am so glad to see you told
her ! was thinking a moment ago
that you would admire those lovely
lampshades on the other side of the
room Come and see them l took her
arm, hoping to get her over there and
eventually to shoe her out, sho to
speak before she could discover what
was about. But 1t was not to be"
I'm a moment, dear she said.
There is something want to see in
this department first!' Then she dis
| covered my pitcher!
My first thought was to pretend
that there had been duplicates and
this was the other one, but knew she
wouldn't believe it, for l will venture
to say that there isn't another ice
water set decorated with a grinning
/ Bacchus anywhere on the face of the
globe. a-4s@,4-
"'Ah!' she remarked with pecul-
lar expression. That is the pitcher
gave you, isn't it?'
! Yes | answered boldly. 4 have
brought It down to have my name en-
graved on IT,
"'How thoughtless of me not TO
have had 1t done myself. she purred
Don't say word. | insist upon hav-
ing the bill for the engraving sent to
me. | shall have your whole name
put on. your new name
No just put "E. N. L. said to
the salesman. For | was wild to
get away before the proprietor came
back
Nonsense. objected Mrs Merle
Brown. 1t shall be Evangellne Net.
Teton Latour, aud there is room for
II under that cunning Bacchus.
The salesman Numbered over the
spelling of the name and he hadn't
finished writing it on a card, when the
proprietor returned and blurted out:
Your price for that water set is too
high. madam. will give you $12,
which is liberal, considering the plat
ing and the fact that nobody is buy
ing that sort of thing at the present
time