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Show ISOUBRETTES BY THE SCORE, AND PRETTY, TOO Army of Stately Blondes and Brunettes Bru-nettes Invade Legislative Sail. ' 4- WANTED ONE HUNDRED ?4- handsome young soubrcttes,- 4- blondes or brunottes, to join a new 4- vaudcvlllo company about to utart 4- upon tho road. Apply to Georso -f-4- Ruehl, Assembly Chamber, Albany, 4 N. Y., on Tuesday, April 6. Hef- 4 4 erences may be furnished if convc- 4 4 nient; wages $20 a week. 4 if 4 4 4 i LBANY, N. Y., April 9. An array A of more or less pretty soubrcttes jff and girls willing to become soubrcttes sou-brcttes stormed the assembly chamber today and put to rout one of the State's handsomest legislators, George Ruehl, of Buffalo, For half an hour the regular business of the. session was seriously interfered with while Mr. Ruehl reluctantly played the rolo of "manager." The soubretle invasion, it was learned later, was tho result of a practical joke played on Mr. Ruehl by Assemblyman , Brooks, another Erie county Republican, Republi-can, whose features are not as handsome hand-some to behold as are those of Mr. IRuehl. Mr. Brooks, presumably Inspired In-spired by jealousy, caused to be Insort-ed Insort-ed in a Troy newspaper a few days 030 the above advertisement: Mr. Ruehl was pondering over a letter let-ter in feminine handwriting and signed "Mersrlth" when Sergeant-at-Anns Frank "VV. Johnston approached his desk and told him that several good-looking good-looking young women were outside and desired to see him. Locking in his desk the scented epistle from "Meredith," Mr. Ruehl went forth to greet his visitors. vis-itors. He was all smiles as he rlsap-penred rlsap-penred through the swinging doors leading lead-ing to the lobby, and apparently ex-jpected ex-jpected to the see the wives or daughters of some of his Buffalo constituents. "It's so nice of you," all of the young women explained In chorus, "to offer , us such fine positions. "Wo have always wanted to go on the stage, and" "But there must be" "Of course, we'll all accept," continued con-tinued the young women, ' "And wc want to tell you, Mr. Ruehl, how thankful" thank-ful" "Some mistake," Ruehl finally broke In. "Mistake!" the fair visitors exclaimed. "Mistake, did you say? There can't be any mistake. You are Mr. Ruehl and here's the advertisement and hero we are. Now" Ruehl lied. |