Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-16
Such Is Life
In q
Big City
sY P. o. WoTroN.

Every time Mabel saw a scare head
IN a newspaper entitled "Beauti,ui
Girl Stabbed with Poisoned Needle
she became 0blivi0us to her surround
ings until the tale OF horror was fin.
ished.
She talked SO much about the dan
gers q beautiful girl an in going to
horrid business every day that her
mother told her she could stay ut
home and do the cooking. But Mabel
said she would rather take the
chance.
II she was invited to q house party
she entertained the other girls with
narrowing tales Of abducted maidens
rendered insensible by the skilled use
Of the impregnated stabber. She be-
came the most unpopular girl in her
set.
II any wielder OF the curare had &C.
cidentally stabbed Mabel. by mistake
he could have thrownfdown his needle
and taken refuge in flight.
Her face would haulted a runaway
automobile. Her figure was construc.
ted on the lines OF, = bean pole. Only
an expert needle artist could have
found her arm In less than six stabs.
But Mabel used to sit up nights
imagining herself q victim OF the aw-
full needle. She liked to picture her.
self 90 setzing the miscreant and turn
ing him over to the police. Some
times she could. almost see her pho
tograph on the first page OF the pa.
pei. over the Inscription. Lovely Ste
nographer Who Captured Needle
Wielder and Foiled Abduction.
She ordered q dozen photographs 50
that the reporters wouldn't have to
. GsAhOrrid flashlight when the ex-
pected came to pass:
II q man crowded her In the six
fifteen car on her way home she
wouid boiler for help and pull the
emergency brake.
When she went to the theatre she
always manouvered to obtain q seat
next to q man who looked as much
like the villain a. possible.
She always placed her arm where 1t
would tempt the abductor to practice
his heinous deviltry. But the villains
refused to bite.
She carried q hypodermic syringe
to slip into the pocket OF any likely
appearing miscreant just before her
shrek for aid should thrill the aud
fence, but she did not have the nerve
to put up the job.
She had suspicious Of her boss.
There was no telling about these mar.
rfed men, she told her chum. II he
spoke pleasantly to her or asked her
to stay after hours she hoped the
mystic moment had arrived.
Young men did not dare to tango
with her, fearing that she would pick
them as victims and hand them over
to the police.
One Sunday night she was leaving
church with her mother when at Las:
she felt the fatal stab In her arm
SEEKING the we'll dressed old villain
who was trying to escape she set up
. cry that was heard four blocks. Her
mother helped her hold the aged sin.
ner until the policeman came. He
was q deacon of the church.
While Mabel was telling her story
to the detectives and the reporters
in the police station she began to
scratch and a blank look appeared on
her cOuntenance.
When they asked her what the mat.
ter was she said something was prick
ing her all owe just like the poison
ed needle.
At this stage mother interfered and
said: 1T wasn't no poisoned needle.
Mabel; It's your new winter under
clothes" 4~sa.
Which seems to prove that every
thing comes to her who waits, but
that the symptoms are sometimes
wrong.