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Show MADE HER PROTEST STRONG. Wanted It Understood She -Was a Good Church Member. She was a member of a North Side church, and she was trying to Impress the fact upon tho mind of the friend who rodo out with her on a lato elevated ele-vated train tho other night. "I'm as good a church member as any one, and I don't cavo who knows It." she said in tho course of her talk. "Well, it's nothing to bo ashamed of," said the friend. "I was also once a church member, and I never was ashamed to own up to It." "Ashamed! Who says I am ashamed?" asham-ed?" shouted tho first woman, until every one In tho car turned to look. "Ashamed? Well, now, I rather guess not. I'm a good church member, and who dares say I am ashamed of it? Tho person who told you I am ashamed asham-ed of it is a liar. There!" "Why, no one told mo you were ashamed of it," said tho friend. "Well, then, why are you saying it?" "I didn't say It." "You did!" "Well, then, I suppose I did." "Well, I'm not ashamed, I'll give you to understand that, and you put It in your last summer's bonnet that I am not." And then as the train stopped she added, "Goodby, dear, I get off here." Chicago Record-Herald. i - |
