Show The Baron Promises to Startle Society b I With Announcement I t i l I IJ A. A BOUT a week fro from today I think I may may tell you ol oT ail l ABOUT that will be a out knock-out for socie society y A few cl se frien friends s of the lady 1 have haie e ay-e suspected for some time tl that al she fhe would have bave some n news ws of the kind for them but bu the man in case case is not at all aU whom they think it is He Re is the best friend of the other man and is being willingly used until the he arrangements 11 are perfected and the relatives are assembled for for a n t ton on the subject Now rumor rumor has it that some objections h have ve B tn n overcome and that Oc October ober will win s see se e one more inter interesting w Tved 1 First she wrote me a little note denying it and then a vo I twenty twenty-t twenty three ree pages to be accurate telling the whole story a exacting the p promise that it would not be used until s1 she gyes the word vord And there ther you are Its It's a shame to k keep ep the secret i the story is important eno enough gh to go on the wires when it br break ak That's ono one disadvantage of o occasionally having a good two and being unable betray to a confidence But those have the heart to occasionally wade through trough this page win i r I the story first a n f r OCAL society is ag agape pe at the yarns from a mei g L LOCAL where the fair la lady y wl who o presides at the dinner table married a bit below her station The breaks that he is making makin Pi not only mortifying to her and her family b but lt i in some instances ooS appalling They have his Ilia inability t to master th the Queen English and keep his balance on the polished q floors jut but ut fh th thare are objecting strenuously to some somo of the breaks he j is makin making 1 before their guests and also to the fact that h he is taking a pj of or rolling up a Turkish rug and anti departing with it ds a gift t to a relative whenever er the spirit moves Recently he was performing with a tray full of cor cor coil glasses after a dinner instead of trusting them to the maid and audi striking the c of a rug took a long slide for second anUil g T Tin in a heap at the feet of the reminded guests It me mc of a S std ar Wilson Mizner told me shortly after Wilson took week a or t two to o off and I marri married d Mrs Irs Yerkes in New Y York ork the he widow of the of-the the t Chicago traction magnate It was one in which an old darky toe The l 1 I whom h he had taken from rom San Francisco to New York Y ark Ii figured 1 quite extensively and read about as follows J I took Joe up to the house on Fifth avenue and he was LJ a scared to dea death h. h He had never seen such m magnificence nce TIji was vas a lackey at every t turn rn and corner all aU decked out in ill ill 1 cent livery and anti all aU the trimmings gs No No matter in what par part o of iKe i I house we would there would be cluster of Ot go a these dignified f statues moving automatically whenever a door was WitS to be op opened or a curtain rai raised ed As s I said said Joe was scared stiff and I T was wa's 8 ya laughing my head off y v r Joe had attended to my mr per personal onal wants for some time n i I knew I should miss miss' him J 1 was a little worried about th the f odI od too for there was no telling what kind of a a game would b be put pdt U up on me nie And so when bed time came caine and Joe was sent downstairs down down- l I stairs to the servants' servants quarters he whisp whispered to me How is is' I t I. I gwine Swing to tOl bring yo Mizner 7 1 I 1 th thought a a a- amo mo nw merit ment and said Well Joe you just tell teU them that you OU h haver n e served my meals meals' personally for twenty years rearS and that r T V would not allow anybody else to bring pring me anything to eat cat 0 That was satisfactory to Joe But I had omitted some som thing thing thing-I I had forgotten to show him my new be bedroom which wasa was was- as a most magnificent affair furnished with a splendor a-splendor almost brI bar r I baric bane The itself bed bed itself had belonged to the Mad Iad King of Bavaria M and the Mr Yerkes who preceded me had paid for it jt In the morning when I announced that I 1 was ready fo breakfast and a little later latel was made aware that breakfast w was ts ready for me mt I was sitting up in the Mad Iad Kings King's bed a. a cigarette There was a powdered lackey on each side of the fold foid ing doors and on a signal from others on the outside that Jie had arrived with the tray the doors suddenly opened the e lackeys s 's bowed and in stepped Joe t Then Bing J Joe and the gold plate and the glass and the breakfast went down with a a crash For Ol a moment everyone everyone- was was- stunned Then I sufficiently gained my composure to l O Cy 4 and loud The fhe crestfallen Joe gathered himself the up furious lackey Y began to help g gather ther the fragments of the dishes and breakfast on the floor Then Joe took a step forward and with his J liand to his poor old head said Hones Rones to l o l lI have fallen down even if I nevah had no tra tray I never seen an 1 thing like 1 e th this thia b eo f f H |