Show Whisky in Womans Temple Chicago Inter Ocean The national officers at the W C T U agreed with Mrs Matilda B Carse for flfteen minutes on CJld day last week They were all Bhockeddread fully shockedand they agreed on It One ofthe elevator men In the Temple building got tipsy Liquor found its way into the sacred precincts of thee the-e < There was no getting around that fact because the elevator man and his strange wild ways were as good proof as a champagne cork or an empty beer bottle Mrs Helen It Barker Bar-ker who used to be a Methodist preacher before she took charge of the W C T U funds got Into the lift about 9 oclock Her favorite eleator man took her breath away by remarking remark-ing In a confidential way Shay sh devlish cold In sh shanty shrnornin Mrs Barker did not deign to reply but she says it seemed as if she were walking along Clark street in front of Hlnky Dinks The elevator shot past the eleventh floaT and banged up against the twelfth with a thud Mrs Barker looked at the man inquiringly and remarked I said the eleventh 11001Satsh Satsh all right more fr yr money she was assured Mrs Carse her pretty secretary Mrs Grow and Irs Frye rode up together five minutes afterward Shay wy dont some 0 you laies get married 7 queried the man as he started the elevator at breakneck speW Too darn pretty go round pain yr own car fare see That settled it Inquiry was made I and the man was convicted of drinking I a pint and a half of whisky before 12 ocock That is too much said Miss Lucy Page Gaston meanIng of course that a glll would have been reprehensible Oh all too much I should say so chinned the ladies in chorus The elevator eleva-tor man put up the plea that on a cold morning if the ladies had torun elevators ele-vators they would take to the liquor habit themselves He moved to quash the indictment On account of his age It was finally decided tp put him on probation for a week |