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Show Weren't the Mothers Surprised? Some time ago there was a dance in a Canadian settlement for the benefit of the settlers and their wives. Most of the married ladies had babies with them, whose noisy perversity required too much attention to allow the ladies the full swing of their souls' pleasure in the dance. So a number of young men present gallantly volunteered to watch over the refractory infants, so that their mothers could indulge without let or hindrance in the sweets of the "light fantastic" exercise. The gallant offer was readily and confidingly accepts, but no sooner had the women left their dear charges to the care of thoso mischievous young rascals ras-cals than they commenced stuffing the infants, changing the clothing and giving giv-ing one the apparel of another, till all were transmogrified. The dance and the music continued into the"wesma' hours," and then it was time to go home. The lights were lowered, and each mother hurriedly took a baby, in the dress of her own, and started for home, which, in many instances, was 10 or 15 miles away. The following morning there was a prodigious row in the settlement Mothers Moth-ers discovered what had occurred, and then commenced some of the tallest female fe-male pedestrianism on record. Living as they did miles apart, it required two full days to unmix the babies and as many months to restore the mothers to their naturally sweet dispositions. Those young men never venture into that settlement now. It wouldn't be afe. Montreal Star 0 |