The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-07-27
KIMONA KLUB SPREADS ITSELF

The K K. girls held their meeting
last night at the Bittinger home. Their
experiences are both pleasant and dis
appointing. The first part of the ev-
ening was spent at the Air Dome,
where Mrs. Bittinger chaperoned the
crowd, the club having with them their
dainty little mascot. Dorothy LyIes.
They enjoyed the talking pictures i'm
mensely.
They then returned to the Bittinger
home to spend the rest of the evening
in youthful enthusiasm and diversion.
Their first thought was to partake of
a spread it is the custom to prepare.
Each girl had brought her selected
fancy They had been carefully housed
in the pantry Judge Of their intense
surprise and chagrin to find the tooth
some packages all gone. Who took
them and how did the maurader gain
| entrance We're the questions on every
| pain of lips. \ committee Of inveSti
cation brought forth the sad intelli-
gence that the thief had pried out a
i screen in the rear porch leading to the
| dining room and carried same away.
After the surprise Of the theft had
| subsidized speculation became rife. The
girls had partaken of no supper and
were anticipating the spread with
great relish. The question was would
the kids, for they were suspected and
| accused Of the theft, after torturing
| the vivacious appetites Of the girls.
return the purloined food and thereby
| add gratitude to their acknowledged
skill as "cracksmen." The minutes
slowly dragged out and an hour had
passed and the hilarious kids had not
returns the spoils.
| Then they were Indignant, chagrined
and revenge filled their hearts, and
! had the bastard thief fallen into the
hands Of the thoroughly aroused X. X
life would no longer have been inter-
esting for him. Making the best Of
the unpleasant situation and with
hunger melting them to heroic deeds
of culinary thrift and skill. the girls
impressed into service half a dozen
kitchen aprons and the kitchen was
the scene of a busy struggle for half
an hour with the girls preparing
chicken sandwiches, hard boiled eggs,
fanked with stuffed olives. pickles and
SIGH, and then came the feast that last
ed several hours. with recesses taken
to pound the piano. perambulate the
block and create more appetite. sing
ing all manner of vaudeville songs
caught at the Air Dome, until tired
natures felt the want of sweet slum-
Der and about $50 this morning half
a dozen girls. the remnant of the Ka-
!mOna klub, crawled into bed to sleep
the sleep of the just. They We're Miss
les Helen Brown, Ellen ClarkSon, Hope
Robinson, Eleanor Crom Nellie Colt
lieb and Adele Bittinger.
Now this was delightful fun for the
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the KamOnas, who were received with
great impreSSiveneSS, but not until
they had been shown the third degree
and vowed they knew nothing of the
missing edibles. With them came ice
cream, Red Rock and assorted nuts
The honor conferred on them was to
uncork the bottles of ginger ale and
crack and pick out the nuts.
Oh. it was lovely; it was great. But
how about "Old Pop" and Nav Bit
finger. Well. 'Old Pop" took to the
woodshed and sent our proposals to
bunk with the old hen and her four
teen biddes, but this she plainly We
toed, and being attracted by Teddy
the cat, who was tuning his lutte tC
midnight notes, a friendly
light reckoning from n neiShbor's win
dow to a quiet rest, and We sought i,
and live to tell the tale of fearful
youthful dissipation, and the wreck
the robbers wrought.
While for Mother Bittinger. she evi
, IDENTIFY hung herself on a closet hook
for in the bright glare of the morn.
ing we found her as serene and self
r possessed as though her eyeIids hat
+ been loaded down on a fIowery bed OF
ease for at least twelve hours. She
| ed MI
to the girls have a good time ant
enjoy themselves, they would only
travel this pathway of youth once ant
as 1t was all innocent subterfuge, il
was great and good.