The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-08-25
Her Stroke Of
Business

the two met in down town store.
I'VE arrived day before yesterday"
said the new Mrs. Latour. gazing alb
stractedly into space and speaking
with marked absence of her accus-
toned vivacity.
you seem different, somehow" OBJ
served her friend. II hope you are
happy"
"of course am happy" flyvhed Mrs.
Latour. Phil is a perfect dear and I
am absolutely blissful"
You don't look It." averred her
friend, bluntly.
10 tell the truth, I am terribly an
noyed at this moment" confessed Hrs.
Latour. You know that we had a
grca, many handsome wedding pres
ents. but there was one article that
perfectly detested II was silver
Ice pitcher with goblets to match"
81 remember IT," said the friend.
1T was decorated with Bacchus
dancing with nymphs. 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
or 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 I wouldn't have invited
II mother had not insisted upon 1t, for
don't like her. and never did. I
thought about that ice pitcher at in
tervals during our wedding journey.
and made up my mind that | would
sell II If possible and with the pro.
ceeds buy something l really wanted"
That was sensible" said her friend.
81 am sure you will never regret It,"
wait and hear the rest. found a
place where they would consider the
purchase of It and have just come
from there. The pitcher and the COB
lets we're 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
Browne!"
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. 81 turned my
back squarely to the counter, hoping
to conceal that towering pitcher from
Mrs. Merle-Brown, whom greeted
effusively.
s 81 am 80 glad to see you told
her. 7 was thinking q moment ago
that you would admire those lovely
lampshades on the other side of the
room. Come and see them took her
arm, hoping to get her over there and
eventually to Shoe her out, sho to
speak, before she could discover what
I was about. But 1t was not to be-
I'm a moment, dear she said
There is something want to see in
this department frst!' 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
|
to say that there isn't another ice
water set decorated with a grinniae
Bacchus anywhere on the face Of the
globe.
"'Ah!' she remarked with pecul
lar expression. That is the pitcher
gave you, isn't it?'
Eyes, | answered boldly. I have
brought it down to have my name en-
graved on It,
"How thoughtless of me not t.
have had 1t done myself she purred
Don't say a word. insist upon hav
ing the bill for the engraving sent t.
; me. / shall have your whole name
put on, your new name
"'No, Just put "E N. L. said t.
the salesman. For was wild Il
get away before the proprietor came
back.
Nonsense objected Mrs. Merle
Teton Latour, and there is room To-
It under that cunning Bacchus.
"The salesman blundered over tn,
spelling of the name and he hadn'
finished writing 1t on a card, when thu
proprietor returned and blurted out
! Your price for that water set is to-
high, madam. will give you $12
= which is liberal. considering the plat
/, ing and the fact that nobody is buy
I ing that sort of thing at the presen
: time as
: THE salesman stared and Mrs
Z Merle Browns lips were set as sh
8 said: Y perceive have interrupte,
; a business transaction Then befor
could find my tongue she ha'
I marched out OF the store"
e what did you do about the waite
n set7" asked the friend.
D 81 accepted the sum the man Of
fered me and would have taken II
1t had been 80 cents" replied Mri
Latour. savagely.