The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-29
az ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Il used to belong to Browning
club myself" said the cynic, lighting
a cigarette.
Have one Sal?" he asked.
Zone what?"
"Cigarette"
"Oh, thought you meant Brown
ing club" said Sal
Your attempts to be funny, Sal m
dear" said the cynic, sound like the
jokes you hear at the Chatauqua."
"Or the Elks club"
THAT certain was a hot one" re-
piled the cynic, but won't you have
a cigarette
Certainly not! How dare you!
I'm not one of those horrid women
who smoke"
And not SO horrid either" murmur-
ed the cynic.
"What'd you say?'
"Oh, nothing, Sal"
Il don't permit you to call me Sal
any more" said Sal. That's one re-
form you must institute the first OF
the year.
"Institute a REFORM You sound
like civic Identification
Once" said Sal, "a woman in this
town gave notice to me to have my
yard cleaned up on May first. Or I'd
get a prize"
II remember of riding by her house
afterward," went on Sal, and | give
you my word never saw worse look
ing place She raised chickens and
well-you know how they look"
"Why don't you allow me to call
you Sal any more Sal?" asked the
cynic.
"Oh-that. Why Sal is undignified
I'm old enough to be treated with
some consideration
Eyes. | agree with you"
Agree with me-whO asked you to:
It's not that I'm so old, you know
besides | think it was low down mean
of you to say you agreed with me-
II hate to hear such language from
a Observation-Disclosures come, Sarah, low
down meant! &
And Sarah is my name. It's a pref
ty name, too-don't you Think"
Sarah was Abraham's wife," inter
pOlated the cynic.
well what has that got to do with
it,"
"Nothing-on my soul-not thing.
Sometimes l thing you're crazy,
said Sal. "You talk so queer"
Anyway l did belong to Brown
ing club" began the cynic.
"Oh, so on" snapped Sal, Il see
you want to talk about it."
I'D never havethought Of mention
ing it il you hadn't said you hat
| been invited to join one and l want
ed to serve as a horrible example"
IF that's what's made you the way
you are" said Sal, "I'll certainly no
join l don't know of anything l wan
less than to be like you
But before you begin" she contin
ued, II want to show you l really hat
reason for asking you to swear of
on Sal You see l got book fol
Christmas and there was the mos
odious woman in it and when thu
heroine said to her-I don't know
what to call YOU and she said--'cal
me SAL it made me perfectly sick
saw just how l must seem to thu
others. And l refuse ever again t.
be called Sal"
believe me, SAL said the cynic
I'll never call you Sal again"
Eyes, once l belonged to Brown
ing club" reminsced the cynic. g
was the only man. They asked me be
cause they thought one man would adj
to the interest and | was invited be
cause l had a high forehead and wa
known to sit out in the back yard OF
summer days reading Bernard Shaw
1T was one of these round rObll
things, you know, everybody writing
letter and everybody else makin'
more or less offensive comments o.
the margin until you got clear round
then you began again.
In instance after you had torn
poem apart, thoroughly disinfected i
and hung it up to dry Mrs. Augusta
Allingham would write on the bacI
page
Il do not at all approve of your pc
sition on the sub-consciousncss OF tn
how. Your attitude is thoroughly ar
tagonistic to all the most advance
commentaries and hints of spirit O
levity that is not in the least consis
tent with our serious purpose in wish
ing to delve into the depths of Brown
ings subtle nature and apply to GU
own lives the lesson OF his beautiful
union with Elizabeth B. B."