Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — HER LITTLE TRICK A FAILURE [ARTICLE]

HER LITTLE TRICK A FAILURE

Situation That Rather Mortified IndL i ana Mias Saved by Sense and Tact of Her Companion. He had come all the way from Chicago, so the Terre Haute young woman was anxious to entertain him tn style. Clad in her best dress she accompanied him to a hotel for dinner and then afterward to a picture house for the afternoon. But her joy had one rap when just before she started away from the home mother commissioned her to buy a pound of cheese while she was downtown. And after she saw the very modish costume of the young man she hated that errand worse than ever. “He’d be provoked if I carried a greasy package along the street home." she thought, “but, still I have to get the cheese or mother will be angry." They left the moving picture house and the young woman told of her next errand —a visit to one of the large department stores. “I have to get some eream and other toilet goods," she said, when they had reached the store. “You wait here and I’ll be back in a minute.” " So while the young man strolled up and down in front of the store, she bought the cheese, having it put into a fancy sack so that the package would resemble beauty preparations. Then, happy over her own ingenuity, she tripped out to meet the gallant “We’ll stop at the drug store for a soda and then we’ll go home,” he suggested. They stopped at the drug store. Carefully the young woman deposited the sack of cheese on the empty chair opposite the young man so that he would not obtain a whiff of Its contents. Placidly she went on with her conversation until some one touched her on the shoulder. “Lady,” a man’s voice said, “that cat has got your cheese out in the middle of the floor.” Horrorstricken, she turned to see a large cat happily eating the large wedge of cheese. She also noticed that her companion had heard and seen the man and the cat. She moistened her lips to speak but he spoke first: ’lf more girls would use such beauty preparations as that,” he said, smilingly, “they wouldn’t find husbands so hard to get”—lndianapolis News.