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Show FEOD BETWEEN ASTORS ENDED AT LAST. Glory be! The feud of twenty years between the Astor families fami-lies is now a thing of the past. What do we care about the troubles of the Czar, the reasons for the resignation of Engineer Wallace of the Panama canal, or who struck '"Billy" Patterson, with this news ringing joyfully in our ears.' Whe the "glad tidings"''reached New York the other day things were doing. Strong men wept with joy, women fainted of pure delight and little children danced with glee. It was a great day. Many of those who received the news with enthusiasm, how ever, had all but forgotten the cause of the trouble. Tq begin with, it was a long time ago in 1885, to be exact. As The Telegram re- -members the incident, it was as follows: Early one morning one of the Mrs. Astors called over the back fence to another Mrs. Astor, asking, the loan of her washtub and a couple of flatirons for the day. The Mrs. ABtor addressed had spent a bad night with one of the children, who Ifad tried to break the green apple record the preceding pre-ceding day, and was not in a good humor.- As a result she asked , tbe other Mrs. Astor if she didn't want the clothes wringer, some sal soda and a little bluing, too. ' f "Oh, I don't know;" replied tbe other. Mrs. Astor. But I guess you haven't much room to cut up any didos with me, seeing that you have, returned the cup of sugar and the pinch of tea I loaned you last week." , . . ' "What," almost shrieked, the Mrs. Astor on the other side of the fence. "Well, of all the nerve! The idea of your throwing it in my face that I owe you a'pinch of tea and a spoonful of sugar and poor sugar it was, tOjO when you owe me two spools of thread, a half yird of bleaching and a whole dozen hooks and eyes!"' . . ! .,-'. - ., ' - Then followed a lotmore talk of the same kino: until the neighbors neigh-bors were compelled to take a hand. Each Mrs. Astor then told her husband and the husbands were soon at swords' points. Hat . now the old feud has been settled and peace reigns once jmore. To King Edward, it is said, is due the resumption of amicable relations rela-tions between the two families.. Belah. |