Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-21
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I tell you that made me sit up When
there's any fighting 10 do, no Iverson
turns his back upon the foe ] saw at
once that IL was time to take sides, and
that II was going to be terribly exciting.
hittle James was already in the enemy $
camp, with three of our friends. and
here was Maudie getting up an opposition
party. had to decide quickly and l did
II. The audience was convinced en- the
spot, and II got up and kissed Maudie and
told her so. My. but she was glad She
Just Rugged me, though usually she's very
undemonstrative. Then she said Now.
we've got to get Mabel Blossom on our
side. The three of us can sweep the girls
off their feet-but IL Mabel goes over 10
Kittie, you and 1 will have a hard battle
to hold our own" And she added gloom
lily: I'VE can never tell how Mabel Bios
som will act about anything"
/ knew that was so and / promised
Maudie l would appeal to MabeTs reason
and try TO make her join Us the very
minlte she got back. before the other girls
saw her. said Id meet Mabel at the
station ana ask her which she preferred
to associate with on an intellectual level
-ktttie James or US. l thought that
might fetch Mabel she is so proud of
her intellect. Maudie said IL was worth
trying, but she shook her head and said 1t
would be just like Mabel to join the other
side, so she could develop their intellects.
Then her face frightened and she jumped
so saw that she had another idea She
did, too. She said might tell Mabel she
could get a feeding tube and use II on
Maudie is she wanted to- Maudie said
she had wondered how a person felt when
she was fed through tube, and now she
was going to get one right off and find
out. She said she knew Mabel would be
simply delighted to try such an expert
ment. Mabel was going to he a doctor, so
she'd have to know about it sometime,
and II might as we'll be now
wasn't very enthusiastic at first. Il
seemed to me like what Sister Irmin-
garde calls ian irrelevant detail" But
I knew Mabel Blossom would join my
society in the world for the sake of trying
medical experiment on some one, so |
told Maudie the tube was surely the
quickest way Of getting to Mabel. Wasn't
that bright? Maudie laughed hard; she
doesn't always. We put Mabers name on
our list without waiting. So we had
three members-a president (Maudie. of
course), vice president (MabeD, and a
secretary (me). Just then Janet Tlelaw-
ney knocked at the door and came In, and
as soon as we mentioned our club she
Joined 1t without waiting for any details
because she liked us better than she did
Kittie. We We're glad she didn't Insist
on having an office. because there
weren't any left; but we gave her a glass
Of ginger ale and q cookie to celebrate
on There was really something to cele-
brate, for, you see. we had four members,
the same as Kittie had, and her club was
whole hour older than ours.
You'd better believe the next twenty
four hours were fevered ones Whenever
we saw a girl alone anywhere we APP
pealed to her reason and got her to join
st. GATHERINGS suffragettes Janet Ire
lawney caught one girl in bsthtub and
wouldn't leave her until she promised To
join; and Maudie Joyce gave her best
coral chain to a new girl to convince her
reason. 1t did too, though she had half
promised Kittie to join the ants. All
did was to appeal TO the girls reason and
read my stories to them and they were
so proud OF being seen seated beneath
the trees with a real author that they
Joined, mot single spies. but in batta-
one Saturday. so you can see how q
love for good literature is being fostered
in our convent school. Between times we
made banners with Votes for Women
on them. Mabel Blossom was with us by
this time. She Joined just as soon as we
mentioned feeding Maudie through the
tube Before that her mind seemed to be
"clouded with a doubt" like King Ar
thurs.
Perhaps you think Kittie James was
idle all this time. She was not The Yer!
moment Kitte heard about our club she
began to work like mad to make herr
bigger. She was unreasonable about 1t
too, and instead OF seeing that we had &
right 70 our sacred convictions, Kittl'
thought we got M our club TO kill hers
She hardly spoke to us on the campus
at first, but pretty soon she saw how
silly this was, especially as II made hel
miss lots OF fun that had nothing TO d.
with suffrage clubs. She began to drol
into my room again in the evening, th'
way she always had. but she wore suof
an impatient and busy look that It got
on Maudie's nerves.
l am broad-minded and Just, 50 / can't
help admitting that Kittie's club wa
really a success after all. Her sister
Mrs. George Morgan, sent her lots OF ad
vice and told Klttie everything the Chi
cago club did; and her brother-ln-law
George Morgan. was tremendously inter
ested and made heaps Of suggestions
Kittle took them. too. and made her clut
socially exclusive. and tad parties and
things TO eat, even II she couldn't cal