Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Hopelessly Embarrassed. [ARTICLE]

Hopelessly Embarrassed.

From time to time one reads of strange coincidental happenings. In an Episcopalian boarding-school the scholars and teachers were assembled for morning prayer. The prayers and singing were over, and all were resuming their seats when one of the young ladies, of a very short an<| thick stature, missing her chair, seated herself with a thud on the floor. Nobody smiled. All were too decorous for that. The fallen one, embarrassed Into the momentary loss of common sense, retained her lowly seat, opened her prayer book and appeared to be earnestly engaged in examing its contents. This was worse than what had gone before; it was almost too much for her companions, snd a smile began to struggle on many a fair countenance when the rector arose and began reading the first morning lesson. He read from the fifth chapter of Amos as follows: "The virgin of Israel has fallen. She shall no more rise. She is forsaken upon her land. There is none to raise her up.” This was too much. The voice of the rector trembled as he looked up and saw the fallen virgin. The scholars turn red in their fases, and the exercises were brought to a hasty close.