Sharp County record., 1911-12-22
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Excitement
for Two

From her upstairs sitting room win
dow Mrs. Winklespoon gazed down
into her neighbors back yard with ner
needle in the air.
MY goodness!" she remarked. Il
should think Mrs. Tilletts would sim
ply ruin her oriental rugs! The girl
is beating them! Still, maybe it's all
right"
81 guess she got 'em at bargain
SALE commented Mrs. Speecher,
peering out shrewdly, They look II.
do believe If that woman ran across
bargain sale of coflins she'd outfit
the family! Well, must be going!"
Out on the street Mrs Speecher re-
membered that she wanted cake
recipe from Mrs. Tilletts, so she
turned In at the gate,
81 know you're cleaning house." she
apologized, but thought you wouldn't
mind me! Oh, your girl is just bring
ing In the rugs How nice they look!
Ha! Ela! Excuse me, but just
thought Of something funny!"
what was it?" demanded Mrs. TIL
let's, sitting down on stepladder and
shaking out a dustcloth
ooh, 1t wasn't anything much" said
Mrs. Speecher. "Only 1t made me
laugh. was over next door this aft.
ernoon, at Mrs. Winkelspoon' and
she looked down into your back yard
and said it was too bad you didn't
know enough to know you couldn't
beat oriental rugs and that you were
simply spelling them!"
Mrs Tilletts dropped the dustcloth
and gave her hair an angry pat, She
surveyed her caller with indignant
eyes. Did she say that?" she demand
ed in the repressed tone that stage
heroines employ when making known
the fact that there are immense areas
OF bottled emotion within them. "Well,
If don't know as much about oriental
rugs In two miutes as Gertrude Win.
kiespoon does in two months III
cut EN- up into scraps and make rag
carpets Of EN-! The idea! I'd thank
her to stop prying into my affairs! |
guess II we haven't touring car that
Is mortgaged like some peoples we
aren't precisely benighted heather!
Oriental rugs, indeed! Why, was
brought up on oriental rugs!"
Now, you mustn't let It worry YOU"
said Mrs. Speecher, soothingly, u
wouldn't pay bit Of attention to any.
thing she said!"
well, | guess mott" said Mrs. TIL.
let's emphatically.
The day after that Mrsr, Speecher
dropped into Mrs. Winklespoon's again
"You really don't know how to take
some women" she mourned, II al.
ways thought Mrs. Tilletts such nice,
sensible person and yet when happen
to tell her In the kindest possible way
that we had seen her beating her rugs
and were afraid she would spoil them
she actually lost her temper! You
ought to have heard the things she
said! You couldn't bribe me to rs-
peat them!"
you tell me this minute!" com
manded Mrs. Winklespoon, excitedly,
What on earth was there for her TO
get mad aboutY"
mot q single solitary thlng'" az
serted Mrs. Speecher, aggrievedly
"She certainly has an awful temper
She said you couldn't tell an oriental
from homemade rag carpet and that
every one was talking about your nu'
tomobie being mortgaged'"
Mrs. Winklespoon sat down and
breathed hard "l'd never have be.
leyed It Of her." she got out, u never
thought she had such tongue' Just
let her say again that our car Is mort
gagged and I'm sue her! The idea!
She Ia green with Jealousy because
they haven't one, and goodness knows
I've taken her out In ours often
enoughl This Is my thanksl And
wasn't | on the committee to buy rugs
for the parsonage and doesn't that
prove that my judgment Is considered
good7 don't want anything more
TO do with herl"
Pm glad you have some spirit"
commended Mrs Spoechor, u
wouldn't stand IT, either'"
On her way down the street Mrs,
speecher met Mrs Tilletts, TITS Just
A shame" she said, that Mrs, Wlnkle.
spoon 10 30 touchy! just happened
to say that was In your house and
she burst right out and said you were
30 enyioug Of her ear II made her sick
and she'd never take you riding again
after hearing somewhere that you'd
said her car was moftgHgod' she
even threatened 70 sue you'll"
Sue mel" echoed Mrs 1lletts
eutehIng the fence, "Why-why that's
seandalous III tell my husband'"
Mrs, TIllotts Is going to sue you'll"
gNRped Mrs, Spooehor bursting into
Mre, Wlnklespoon's house ten minulea
later YOU'D better do something
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