Show SAVED HER REPUTATION Quick Wit and a Neighbors Key Helped a PlatDweller I The day was warm and she was In deshabille she hod been sewing and the room was llltcrfd l It was Thursday I and the maid was ont For all of these reasons she caught her breath and kept quiet when the door bell rang with a resolve that she would not press tho button The bell rang again under prolonged pressure this lime and she had her customary apprehension that It might be a telegram After she pressed the button she bent over the banisters LuckIIyY she was on the top floor and It look a long lime for anyone to mount to It When she raw a handsomely dressed woman coming up she decided on a plan of action The neighbor on her for who was away had left her keys I with her The apartment was In peifecl order By the time the caller had reached the top floor the hostess had thrown open her neighbors apartment apart-ment and with n bcomlnl ncgllRee hastily donned was mendaciously apologizing I urn alone today and was just about to get Into the bath but Im so glad to see you The caller was from Boston and a perfect housekeeper I wouldnt have had her see my disorderly dis-orderly apartment for worlds asserted the woman afterward As It was I saw her looking about crlllcally but Mrs Is I a superb housekeeper and sho had left everything In applepic order or-der My friend will GO back to Boslon with a high opinion of my domestic qualities Kansas City Journal |