The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-11-11

to have the daily paper come out and
not give them their proper share of
credit.
The society editor knows exactly
! how Norma and Joseph felt, and for
their benefit will tell a little story
that the readers of this paper can just
pass over.
J Once upon time, you see, it starts
off just like a regular fairy story
there was spelling match in Ard
more. OF course there had been spell
ing matches before, but this one was
unusual because it was grown folks
spelling instead of children, and
then instead of being at school, it
was in a literary club.
Now, Of course, Norma and Joseph
are a little bit small to understand
just how smart you must be to be-
long to literary club but they must
take my word for it, that you have
to be mighty smart, and that in this
particular literary club there were
some unusually smart people-if their
own opinion is to be accepted. Well,
the members agreed to have a spell.
,ng match from the old blue-back spell,
ing book.
Just to look at the book it is
harmless little thing-but it's just like
a bee-it's got a sting in its tail.
1t starts out with ba ba, and a be,
be, and you think it is just like sip
ping honey until the first thing you
know you run up on per-i-pa-tet-.-c SIN
before you fully recover from that,
some one has the nerve to ask you
to spell ich-thy-ol-o-gy, and tell what
it means. Well these smart ladies got
out their spelling books and studied
them just like little boys and girls
in fact, the society editor Gtudied hers
so laboriously that had you have beat
en- her in the back in the middle of
the night, she would have raised up in
bed and begun-''in pronounced in) |
com" pronounced conn, pre-" (pre), !
hen Chem, Isl" (si) and so contin-
ued until ncomprehensibility was out
of her system, and several others just |
as long The day of the spelling
match was lovely one and all the
smart ladies were there.
Two of them chose up. Now, there
was no particular scrambling for the
honor of having the socey editor on
either side, for she hasn't the reputa-
ton of being particularly smart (no
one knowing it, except herself, and
the captains didn't know that she had
been positively going to roost at
night with the blue-backed speller
But finally the lines were chosen,
and the fray began. The smart la
lies stood up pretty well for a while,
)ut when harmless little words like
iagitious, and schismatic and rhap-
,odic began to be hurled at them, sew
,ral of them very quietly and very un-
'btrusively took their seats.
At last one side was all gone ex- ,
.ept Mrs, Harry Lee Crockett who
lad been a side partner of the So {
iety editcr's in the spelling book epi-
ode, and who stood bravely at her Y
ost, until "weevil" proved her undo
ng. That left only Mrs. Henry Pot.
erf and the society editor on the
ther side, and they, together car
led off the palm of victory.
OF course, they really felt like con-
uering heroes. And you may know
nat the society editor gave it a grand
writeup"
But, bless your heart, do you know
hat happened? When the thing was
ublished, the printer or somebody
Sc had accidentally left out her name
the grand finale, and the whole
onor was bestowed upon Mrs. Pot +
rf. Mrs. Potterf called the editor 9
} to know why she had been left to @
'rry such a burden of honor unas- o
sted. The editor tearfully replied 7
at it was no fault of hers. And so, h
ON that day on the society editor p
Is known what it is to be robbed of g,
ur just deserts. And with Joseph a
id Norma she can realize that print l.
S sometimes don't know what i'm m
rtant things are left in their hands. II
lie knows what it is to study and to T
We the homer not recorded. But she u
il certainly see to it that the honor X
II is carefully handled in the fu. m
re. nj
OF
Mrs. W. P. Poland is visiting in ca
trshall, Texas.