| Show an joke one of the society papers prints an all elaborate story concerning the unhappy adventures of an alleged chicago pork packer in her efforts to enter the inner set act at marlborough house As the story goes this ambitious woman was very rich and had an endl endless ess amount of diamonds diamond ii and pocket poe I 1 e money it to is said that ab she e b began egan operations by braking aking direct overtures to g a titled young matron prow abo marborough ag hobs 40 V entertainments 40 and st sanding sand ipg high on tho the list of dl pf af the abw club this society matron malron was known in the story as aa lady 1 31 lady B received endless invitations vi to dinner from mrs chica chicago 0 but bat all of these invitations were ae declined atter alter a time lady B made a wager a L very high personage understood der stood to be the prince of wales that she would put an end to the invitations and at the same time rid herself of the importunities of mrs chicago the next invitation mrs chicago sent to lady B was accepted on the day before tile the dinner mrs Chi cagos cook left her but a new cook applied for the place and as she was recommended by an intimate friend of lady Bs was accepted the day of the dinner came but with it there did not come the honored I 1 guest after waiting for over half an hour the mortified hostess sat down to a delicious dinner with her expectant and disappointed friends friend at the fhe close of the dinner there bame came tile the startling news that the cook had bad disappeared and had lett upon the dressing room table a note which read as follows ladya B presents her compliments t to 0 mrs chicago and hopes the ane dinner gave satisfaction it was then discovered that it had been beh part art of the wager ana and joke oke of jd lady 1 B to play the part cart of the cook for mrs chicago and to display the culinary education repe received ived by her at the south kensington school oi of cookery this UIS is s regarded As aa a very clever joke hut hat it would appear from the story that vulgarity was not all on the side of the self seeking mrs chicago new york fork world |
