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M i r O I c y Q f e- e Cop rJ lt 1 1 by Ly the lie Ire Co iP u. u New I Yuri ln orld Mrs Jarr's Rich Uncle Does Some Soule E Starving g. g K T CLE iii Jg in who was wa used as ashe UJ he hc expressed It It to Mis three k r square meals a 3 day was almost r faint with hun hunger cr as the Mie noon of or an song at the Modern Modem Mothers Mothers' meeting in th time the Hyacinth Room toom o of the hotel Hole St. St t. t progressed K After t r Mr lr er had hall played his because c of Thistledown own own thwart Athwart th tit th-j Moon loon to the accompaniment f of of everybody's every body's con conversation aver acQ a very stout stoat la lady y recited 1 P Passes asses a u little thing Robert Hubert Browning dashed dallied oft off some ome years previous lIt to tn his demise L iL The Tho stout la lady y prefaced the thc recitation recitation tion ion J by by saying a ln gh she felt t Browning was WIS wasa a ii kindred r fI s soul ever since she trill had ac actually actually ac- ac beheld the palace In Venice in 11 which Browning 11 liedThe lied died 11 t The day I beheld that palace Is a i In m 1 iny memory said the tho cr very stout lt lady s This ml might ht be Je true She hal ha slipped sUpped on the tune 1 slimy steps of the ol old palace while getting out of the gondola and h had 11 fallen into the Grand Cana Canal whereby whereby where where- b by cau causing ln a new mark in Venice a mighty whispered Uncle Henry nr tugging at Mrs Irs Jarr's sieve serve j in Int t there no place around hero here h ro where a n dying man could get g 5 cents' cents worth orth o of crackers and cheese said III Mrs Jarr Jan elf snorted Uncle Henry could r eat cat a hull can of cove o oysters aLa ata gulp ull If J lm knew a place to get et en cm Mrs er on the tilt dais rapped for order with an hor Ivory gavel I an and trained trainel her lter gold lorgnette ol on the assemblage t tW fJ Ye Ve will now come to order she aim cried sharply And again aln she rapped tot to silence the tle gabble nb and argument r The secretary has letters to read I Mrs Giblett as secretary rO rose I i t l N The letters are arc not worth reading I take It tt that the women who desire I to toJu bo Ju Modern Mothers have h alrea already y P L 0 iJ oU I I espoused the Cause Causo Some of ot the com coln- communications 1 lu have received recel are arc from women who say a the they canot c not spare their time from their homes and children to become Modern Mothers Hisses were heard And th then n a violent violent vio vio- lent quarrel broke out in n the center of ot the th room between a n. w woman woman man wearing a 3 riding habit an and Mrs Clara l Smith mith it appeared that Mrs Ir cSmith c- c Smith had hall left her hea chair to carr carry something sonic some om that another lad lady thing thins mean to a C lady had said about her and when she he had returned to tell the first lal lady what hl had been said In reply she found an au an angular female In a riding costume in her chair This lady Indy was a spinster tr of or uncertain uncertain uncertain tain A age e who was wat president of the the the-j La Lady Centaurs Centaur a womans woman's riding club r The They rode all lI day In street cars and ami J th the Fifth Fifth avenue stage stac wearing man man-I costumes and riding bouts boots and anti carrying hunting crops crop I Th The officers of or the Iad Lady Centaurs could be Je told because us' they wore divide ei skirts The Lall Lady Centaurs had hall been founded CO by hy tho the lady in Mrs c- c Sm ith's Seat teat Her name namo was Ima Mann lann and she site came naturally by her love lore 10 of or equestrianism be because ause her father had amassed a competence manufacturing a patent folding clotheshorse for use in apartment houses Miss Mann lute many other members member of these sorts of ot riding Iding clubs fn rn New Newole NewYork York ole made malIc It a part of her duties to ride rille to tn other lither club meetings R always as alasIn in the open air By this ih they meant they the thea a always took a a n surface car and never ne the subway Then the they ran up UI the stairs so as asto asto s sto to be Jt able to say Well Yell theres there's nothing nothing noth noth- ing In like Ilk a a. good brisk canter to bring out ones one's color This was true enough h. h They always alway applied the color lolor as they canter cantered d up the stairs stall Ladles s called Mrs Irs Please cease the altercation You are arc not at home with your husbands husbands' I haven't IH any an thank goodness retorted retorted re re- Miss H Mann But nut I f submit that I am a member of this club in good standing I love lo-e all animals horses animals horses babies although h children make m me nervous But Ive I've just come comme from trio the Horse Show Show Show- Order Order Mrs Stry- Stry ver vcr Wheres heres a a. waitress to tape tale the order r murmured Uncle Henry Im dying fer for food And ho would have hac gone but Mrs Jarr held him back The Plan may max not be Practicable Practicable- but ANY Kind of ut a Plan Is Better Belter than None |