Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1919 — HOW THE SCANDAL STARTED [ARTICLE]

HOW THE SCANDAL STARTED

Mrs. Dee, Convinced She Had a “Hot Lead,” Was Not the One to Waste Any Time. Tweedie’s literary predilections always irked his practical sister, Mrs. Dee. So it followed that amity ceased to dwell between them when he married a wife whose incessant converse was x>f literary celebrities and whose ecstatic ambition was to meet them face to face. Now Tweedie and his sister, Mrs. Dee, both were friends of the Diffident Young Man, who pne day received an invitation to a little party in Greenwich Village, which read facetiously and In part: “The Tweedies will be there, but H. G. Wells will not If Mrs. Tweedie mentions him we propose an immediate and rebuking silence.” Because of that and other scintillating lilts In the note, the Diffident Young Man showed it to Mrs. Dee. She read it and her lips compressed and then she went to the phone. And if you happen now to be a recipient of the whispered confidences of the Tweedie-Dee neighborhood, you’d hear something like this: “Have you heard —I hate to believe it—they say Mrs. Tweedie —no, I don’t know who he is, except his name is Wells —H. G. Wells, I believe. Poor Tweedie!”