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Show A STRAY BILLET-DOUX. <br><br> The Pittsburg (Pa) [Pennsylvania] Dispatch says: Three ministers sat in the pulpit of East Liberty Church on Sunday evening. A rising young artist who has a comfortable studio - if studios are ever comfortable - on a street running from Water to Liberty, who is one of the workers in said church, walked bravely to the pulpit before service and gave one of the ministers a notice to read before benediction. The services were about being closed, when the young artist again went forward and reminded the minister that he must not forget the notice of the temperance meeting down town. The minister begged pardon for his remissness, took the slip of paper from his vest pocket, read it, looked dazed, rubbed his eyes, then smiled. He passed the note to a brother minister. He smiled. Then passed it to the other minister, and he smiled. Then all smiled. Then No. 1 remarked that he would like to speak to the young artist. The latter advanced to the pulpit, received the notice, looked at it, colored very red, and looked as though he would like to jump through the window. He had given the pastor a notice of a temperance meeting which read something like this: <br><br> DEAR JOHN. - I am sorry I can't let you come to see me as frequently as usual, but papa and mamma think I should not receive even my very dear friends during the Lenten season. It's awfully disagreeable, if not positively cruel; but then you know we Episcopalians can't go back on Lent. I shall see you oftener than usual, I hope, when the holy season is gone where the woodbine twineth. Yours, with friendship, ______. |