The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-09
TIRE DUSEEDEUUYS IN SOCIETY
NTu, 90 THE DOW AGERS CLUB
>ItRTS 'EM GOING.

FEwH "f I'D" NllrFiAueiIy fanny Aucss
.s,srrl red set visitors yesterday. They
bav, received one OF two temporary guests
tsr...Yirrr. 10 il true, aud the wedding
.ffIar Welsh monitor. Cwm. was largely
Ate. ai hut these social incursiOns
ser .poradiC-unpremeditatCd art. az
II ayr. The events u Yesterday we're
tfs .t'rome II long planning. More
,han that. they were the first skirmishss
in Che ioNager Mrs. Dusenherrys social
onpmgn
;, rmshcs is the only word for what
E,pt gaing 90 all day long. Some Of the
other residents 81 Flatbush said in bitter
aclra's 10 one another over the telephone
thai to-ays was filter appellation.
T. lu began with BegOnia Dusenberry.
Who heard her childish peers referring
% the Dowagers Club. She asked her
mother what a dOWager was. Her mother
toll her that GrandmOther Dussnberry
vas a doWager. Up stairs sped BegOnia.
Her grandmother was informed Of the
existence u the DOwagers Club and for
fhe first time in her quadrennial ex-
sisnce Begunia got her grandmother
Undivided attention.
The senior Mrs. Dussnberry investi-
gated and found that the DOwagers'
Club - composed Of Flathush matrona
who commingle recipes and all the re-
Rned forms of the New Thought. and who
bid fair therefore to effect that harmony
" science and religion for which the
world is waitingi Within two hours she
had acquired a list Of the members. and
that night Mrs. Oan Omngomery. the
president II the Dowagers. received
an invitation 90 tea al tho Dusenberrys'
which she accepted for yesterday.
Summonses, In addition 10 the routine
complaints. were served on the grocer.
the butcher. the baker on saturday, with
the result that many delicacies. tinctures.
spices. olntments and cigarettes were
conveyed to the Dusenberry homestead.
The two little Dusenberrys were washed
and brushed. In the general hustle they
ESCAPED out doors. where they aired them
selves and let loose the dogs
The Dusenherrys have always bad one
dog the FOX terrier Deuce, but recently
Or D,senberry has employed bis time
a from the police force TO purchase
several more. A home for them has
been fitted mp in the back yard under
meath the hack porch. There are seven
dogs ranging IN size from Doom, a 81
Bernard. 10 Oui. a WhippersnappinR
black and tan. The dOghouss has
seven doors. each allowing one dog TO
pass through. These doors are worked
by p,Ishbuttons. II you push the button
for door Z the fox terrier can 20 IN and
out. but none Of the others Il is much
hke a slot machine where a nickel will
not work the aperture for two bits.
In succession BsEonia and Pe,unia
Dusenherry opened all the doors. admit
ting all the dogs TO the yard a. once.
a condition not contemplated hy Mr.
The dogs in their glee
ielled both BeEOnia and Fetinia 20 earth.
covering them with dirt and oaress.s.
Arising. tho youngsters rushed INTO the
kitchen. where their mother spanked
them with the new electric span Ser
alternating current and put them To-
bed
Night fell Saturday night The mounted
noliceman rode spiritedy up 10 the candy
store on the corner lie dismounted and
entering ate a strawberry sundae on ths
house All the children surrounded him
and admired him He was taciturn
Duty was In every hneament 81 his
countenanoe. He mounted and rode
away. He had not gone far when
o-o-opppppeeeeel Ah-yough
youghl youEh-.-'
The horss sat down on his launches
and waved protesting. stunning foreleg'
in the AIR. The policeman, unable "a
adhere TO a perpendicular back. sat down
in the mud. He got up and burned 20 the
Dussnberry house. Il il not uncommon
for the dowager Mrs Dusenberry 20 h.
afflicted with nightmare. II II far from
rare for Begonia and Petunia 10 awaken
and mournfully calculate. This time al
three had chanced 10 chorrs together
The policeman was quite mad by the
time be had forced his way through ths
crowd which surrounded the Dusen.
berry house He wanted 20 arrest all ths
family. He referred 20 them a. inmates
and Rot severely called down by Oh,
Younger Mrs.. Dlsenberry. who told him
that every one knew they owned the
house
-On what charge added the young
mother. can you arrest Va: The only
thing any ones guilty Of Is UNCONSCIOUS
cerebratiOn.'
me diEmOuntsd policeman sat right
down on the doorstep and pored over ths
Penal Code. Ne could not nnd what he
wanted He waited forty-hye minute,
Or the elder Mrn- Dusenberry b. dress.
Bot ike Penelope. ~ soon 40 she had
put anything on she oTaftly mrayellod u
ard took Il OH and patched. Finally
after he had been threatened with tbs
Vengeance % Mr.. Dtisenberry. brOthel
N the fOros. he went away declaring thai
Il tlsrs was any more unconscious oele'
bra, on he would lOck them up willy nilly
The night passed slowly because Re
gGI.a aud Pstlnia woke mp every two
hours and demanded ios cream from thf
csntv store. The propristor, In COZ
VdsratI0n % this extra and regular
demand. kept Opsn all night. a. A. ~
Yesterday BeRnnia and Petunia formally
auns. and announced the day chantsciel
iasllu Al 0nco the two Mrs. Duesn'
1errv- heGAn preparatiops Tor the day
NJ toys. who had been shut up les
ths- .av in concert. were Teleased. IN
~ Nkuma caught a fresh rat Tor break
.aV 'ha parrot and Ne canary bard
-sn1a.-i sacred and proRane music and
ir' g.af permitted BeEOnia % trim IN
vfs.ar- With the garden shears. Break
'a-' was bad. all hands went 90 church
.sa rhe new servant. the Man1 woman
ut ..m-s from the islet Calf Of Ma
.far... t'aiiairss. a. o'clock III
N.-...rrry- got home from church az
a...- and -st around expectant.