Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-20
Their Dinner
 Party
Ry RosaIIe c. MendeI.

 3ory as she burst into the room, throw. ing her hat on the table, her coat on the chair and her gloves on the couch.
 The B. A. C." sewing circle pre- pared to listen.
 Well" the boys of the X. Y. Z.' have been so perfectly lovely to us that I thought it would be nice for the B. A C.. to give them a dinner party. What do you think. girls?"
 "SpIendid!" "Fine!" Just dear!" "Good!" 'DelightfusT were the re plies
 But let us make this a progressive dinner party" suggested Mariory.
 Never heard of a progressive din ner." put in Lulu.
 "A progressive dinner progresses- that's all!" explained the instigator of the plan. You see, we all start at one girls home and partake of the first course of a dinner. They we proceed to another's for the second course. and so on until we finish with the dessert at the last house. Seer
 "A perfect inspiration!" "Jolly!" "Simply wonderful!" 'Marjory, you are a geniusl" declared her friends.
 I'm glad it's going to be dinner, because Dan is so fond of good things to eat" said Louise. ''I'll take the dessert course. Our cook makes splen, did meringues."
 Indeed not!" dissented Marjory. Each girl must prepare her allotted dish without any assistance whatso- ever. No mother, sister, sister-in- law, aunt, friend or servant will be allowed to help the hostess in prepar. ing our dinner. Those K Y. z. boys think we can do nothing but golf and dance. Let us show them that we also know something about the culinary art!'
 "Yes. Remember what the poet said about reaching a mans heart through his stomach" sighed the romantic Irma.
 After much lively discussion in as signing the dinner course to the mem hers. naming the escorts and, issuing the official invitations to the X. Y. z club, the B. A. c. adjourned its week ly meeting.
 The following Tuesday evening ai the K Y. Z.'s and the B. A. C.'s en tered Lulu's house they found her ir tears. She explained between sobs: 'I just feel perfectly terriblei It'' most embarrassing But they nevei camel The artichokes, meani I've been telephonlng frantically. Can ge no satisfactionl Ohi it's dreadful!"
 Never mind!" said George sooth ingly. We can live without arti chokes. Don't worry, little girl. Lett proceed to the soup"
 So with one accord they started fol Irma's home.
 The bouillon was brought in anC the bouillon was taken out-tasted and only tasted.
 q don't see how it happened! It. a mystery! Don't be polite and tr! | to drink it, I beg of you. It's burnt 1 frTevocably burnt. The gas range | to blame. I'm mortified"
 The guests consoled Irma as bes i they could. -.ar Forward! Onward! was the watch word.
 I'm getting kind of nervous" whis pered Marjory to Lulu. "I hope m ducks are all right They ought L be. haven't thought of anything els for week! I've seen ducks runnin around even in my dreams!"
 Marjory's expression was a stud as the crisp and brown fowls wer placed before her at the dinner table My goodness! Impossible! HoI awful What made me do it? I con pletely forgot to draw my ducks bt fore placing them in the oven!"
 4 hungry crowd left Marjory' ducks and started for Louise's dei ert.
 ''It was meant for ice cream mel ingue, but the ice cream just wouldn' get hard" apologized Louise. If 70 drink it like frappe it won't taste s bad, Our cooks meringues are a ways dreams!"
 Say, fellows, I'm beastly hungryi declared Bob. Let's go down tow and give the girls a real dinner They're all right, even If they don know how to cook Come on, befor ve perish with hunger"
 As the B. A. c's and K Y. g. entered the restaurant the head wal CT overheard Marjory suggest to he friends:
 Girls, suppose we change our sev ] ing club into a cooking class?" ; And the answer quickly came. @Sul pose we do."