Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-06


shaking out q dustcloth.
"Oh. II wasn't anything much" said
Mrs. Speeoher. only II made me
laugh. l was over next door this aft
ernoon. at Mrs. winkelspoon's, 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 that7" she demand
I'd in the repressed tone that stage
heroines employ when making known
the fact that there are immense areas
Of bottled emotion within them. well.
IL don't know as much about oriental
rugs IN two miutes as Gertrude Win
klespoon does IN two months In
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 a touring car that
is mortgaged like some peoples we
aren't precisely benighted heather!
Oriental rugs, indeedI Why, was
brought up on oriental rugsl"
Now, you mustn't let 1t worry you"
said Mrs. Speecher, soothingly. 81
wouldn't pay bit OF attention to any
thing she saidl"
Well. l guess notl" said Mrs. Til
let's emphatically.
l., ~ -.
dropped into Mrs. Winklespoon's again
You really don't know how to take
some women" she mourned. Il al
ways thought Mrs. Tilletts such nice,
sensible person and yet when happen
to tell her in the hndest 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
saidl You couldn't bribe me to re-
peat them"
You tell mo this minuts!" com
manded Mrs. Winklespoon. eXcitedly.
What on earth was there for her to
get mad sbout7"
Not a single solitary thing!" as
serted Mrs. Speecher, aggrievedly.
She certainly has an awful temper.
She said you couldn't tell an oriental
from a homemade rag carpet and that
every one was talking about your au-
tomobile being mortgaged."
Mrs. Winklespoon sat down and
breathed hard. I'D never have be
lieved it OF her." she got out. 81 never
thought she had such q tonguel Just
let her say again that our car is mort
gagged and Ill sue herl The idea!
She is green with jealousy because
they haven't one. and goodness knows
I've taken her out in ours often
enoughl This is my thanks! And
wasn't on the committee to buy rugs
for the parsonage and doesn't that
prove that my Judgment is considered
good? / don't want anything more
to do with heri"
I'm glad you have some spirit.
commended Mrs. Speecher. u
wouldn't stand 1t, eitherl"
On her way down the street Mrs
Speecher met Mrs. Tilletts. TITS Just
a shame" she said, that Mrs. Wrinkle
spoon is so touchy! / just happened
to say that I was In your house and
she burst right out and said you were
SO envious Of her car It made her sick
and she'd never take you riding again
after hearing somewhere that you'd
said her car was mortgsged! She
even threatened to sue you'll"
Sue mel" echoed Mrs. Tilletts
clutching the fence. "why-why that's
scandalous. I'll tell my husband"
Mrs. Tilletts is going to sue you!'
gasped Mrs. Speecher, bursting into
Mrs. Winklespoon's house ten minutes
later. You'd better do something
quick! l thought I'd give you warn
ing!"