Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25
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Excitement
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From -her7upstairs sitting room win
dow Mrs. Winklespoon gazed down
Into her neighbor's back yard with her
nesdle IN the SIR. ,
'"My. goodness" she remarked. y
should think Mrs. Tilletts would SIM
oily ruin her oriental rugs! The girl
lie beating them! Still. maybe IT'S sll
right"
n, guess ste got 'sm st bargain
SALE" commented Mrs. speecher
pteling out shrewdly. They look It.
I do believe II that woman ran ACROSS
a bargain sale OF eofans she'd outtt
the family! Well, | must be soins!"
Out on the street HRS. Speecher re-
nenbered that she wanted cake
recipe from Mrs. T1lletts. so che
turned In at the gate.
II know you're cleaning house" she
apologized, "but l thought YOU wouldn't
mind me! Oh, your girl Is just bring
ing in the rugs! How nice they look!
Ha. Ha! Excuse me. but just
thought OF something funny"
What was it?" demanded Mrs. TIL.
let's. sitting down on = ytepladdsr and
shaking out dustcloth.
"Oh, It wasn't anything much" said
Mrs. Speecher. only 1t made me
laugh. l was over next door this att
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 that?" she demand
ed in the depressed 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 az much about oriental
rugs in two miutes as Gertrude Win
klespoon does in two months I'LL
cut EN- up into scraps and make rag
carpets OF EN-! The idea! Id thank
her TO stop prying into my affairs!
guess s. 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!" Z.
Now, you mustn't let It worry you.
said Mrs. Speecher. soothingly. !
wouldn't pay bit Of attention to any
thing she said!"
well, ! guess not" said Mrs. I'll
isttg emphsticaily.
The day after that, Nrsr. SDeeche'
dropped into Mrs. Winklespoon's again
You really don't know how to take
some Women" she mourned. u al
ways thought Mrs. Tilletts such q 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! Yon couldn't brlbe me TO re-
peat them !"
,'."You tell me this mInute!" com.
manded; Mrs. Winklespoon. e1citedly,
What on earth was there for her TO
get mad about" 49,, >.
Not single solitary thing" as;
serted Mrs. Speecher. :, aggreVeoly'
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 au'
tomobile being mortsaged.
Mrs. Winklespoon sat down and
breathed hard. I'D never have be-
lieyed it Of her. she get out, y never
thought she had, such q tongue! Just
let her say again that our car Is mort.
gagged and I'LL sue her! The Idea!
She is greer with jealous! because
they haven't one. and goodness knows
I've taken her out In ours often
enough! This is my tbanhsl And
wasn't on the committee TO buy rugs
for the parsonage and doesn't that
prove that my Judgment Is considered
goci? | don't want anything more
TO- do with her"
I'm glad you have some spirit,
com ended Mrs. Speecher l
wouldn't stand it. either"
On her way down the street Mrs.
Speecher met Mrs. Tiiletts. It's just
a shame" she said. that Mrs. Wrinkle
spoon is 80 touchy! just happened
10 say that WAS in your house ana
she burst right out and said you we're
so envlous OK her, r it made her sick
and she'd never take you riding again
after hearing somewhere that you q
said her car was morsaged. She
even threatened to sue you!
Sue me-" echoed Mrs. Tilietts
clutching the fenee. "Wby-roy that
scandalous. I'll tell my husband.
Mrs. Tilletta 10 going &c sue you!
gasped Mrs. Speecher, bursting into
r. v1r;nL1oonnn1'a house ten mlnut ec