Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — No Comedy for Her. [ARTICLE]

No Comedy for Her.

The church which Mr. and Mrs. Topnoody attend is getting up an entertainment to raise needed funds, and Topnoody was on the Committee of Arrangements. The committee met last night, and when he came home his •wife was anxious to know what had been done. “Well,” she said, “did you do anything ?” “O, yes, my dear, we outlined a program,” he said with an air of business. “What’s it like?” “Well, the chief feature is to be a play. ” “What play?” "Just the thing for amateurs, my dear; the pretty little three-act comedy, ‘Married 1 ife.’ ” “A comedy, Topnoody?” “Of course, and you are to be Mrs. Samuel Coddle, my dear.” “No, I ain’t, Topnoody,” she said, firing up till her cheeks looked like a pair of autumn leaves. “Amateur theatricals are bad enough any way you fix them, but when the amateurs are so raw that they call married life a comedy, you may count me out. I’m a professional in married life business, and I think I know tragedy from comedy when the curtain’s up. You hear my orchestra, Topnoody, and your committee may scratch my name off the list. A comedy? And with my experience ? Great heavens 1” Topnoody went to bed without giving further details of the committee’s •work.— Washington Critic.