The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-04-06


What was IT," demanded Mrs Tn.
let's, sitting down OF step!aGder ana
shaking out dustclGth
"Oh. il wasn't anything much " said
Mrs Spoccbcr. Only II mada me
laugh was over next door hla AFT
ernoon a. Mrs Winkelspoons ane
she looked down into your back yard
ard said II was TOO bad you didn't
know enough to know You couldn't
peat oriental rngs and that VOW were
simply spollug themi"
Mrs Tilletts dropped the d,.stclorn
and gave her hair an angry Eat She
surveyed her caller with Indignant
eyes Did she say that" she dema=d.
ed in the rcpressed tone thar Stage
heroines employ when making known
the fact that there are immense areas
OF bottled emotion within them well.
II don't know as much about oriental
rugs in two miutes as Gertrude Win
kiespoon does In two months l-lll
cut EN- up into scraps and make rag
carpets Of EN-! The idea. Id thank
her 70 stop prying into my Affairs |
guess II we haven't a touring car that
is mortgaged Ike some peoples we
aren't precisely benighted heather!
Oriental rugs. indeed Why | was
brought up on oriental rugs!"
Now. you mustn't let II worry you"
said Mrs. Speecher. soothlngly -
wouldn't pay bit Of attention to any.
thing she said"
We'll, guess not" said Mrs Til.
ietts emphatically.
The day after that Mrsr. Speecher
dropped into Mrs WinklespooE's again
"You really don't know how to take
come women" she mouned II III.
ways thought Mrs. Tilleus such a nice.
sensible person and yet when happen
to tell her in the kindest possible way
that we had seen her beating her rugs
and We're afraid she would spoil them
She actually lost her temper, You
ought to have heard the things she
said You couldn't bride me 20 re.
peat them
you tell me this minute" com.
mauded Mrs Winklespoon. eNcitadIy.
What on earth was there FOR her 20
Sc mad about
"Not a single solitary thing" a%
serted Mrs Speecher, agsrleyediy
"Sic 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.
tom0biIe being mortgaged."
Mrs Winklcspoon sat down and
brca,hed hard. I'D never ha1a b.
Hesed il OF her" she got out u never
thought she had such tongue Just
let her sag again that our car IS mort.
gagged and I'm sue her! The IDEAL
She IS green with jealousy because
they haven't one. and goodness knows
I've taken her out In ours often
enough This IS my thanks Ane
wasn't on the committee 10 buy rugS
for The parsonage and doesn't that
prove that my judgment Is considered
gocds don't want anything more
10 do With iher!"
I'm glad you have some spirit"
commended Mrs. Speecher II
wouldn't stand II. either"
ON her way down the street Mrs.
Speecher met Mrs Tilletts "lss just
shame" she said. that Mrs Wake
spoon Is so touchy! ! just happened
TO say thar was in your house and
she burst right out and said YOU were
so enyious Of her car it made her sick
ard she'd never take you riding again
after hearing somewhere that you'd
said her car was mortgased She
eten threatened to sue you!"
sue me-" echoed Mrs Tilletts
chtching tho fence. "Why--why that's
scandalous I'll tell my husband"
Mrs 1'illetts Is going TO sue you'll"
gasped Mrs. Speecher. bursting into
Mrs. Winklespoon' house ten minutes
later You'd better do something
quick thought I'd give you warn
lagl"