| Show embarrassed THE CLERGYMAN N all unell the th ikid appod Appes App rd A distinguished episcopal clergy i man was once called on to adl officiate elate at a fashionable summer resort church and ceding only a short surplice and no cassock in the vestry was very much disturbed at the thought of hav ing to appear in a vestura that to the frivolous frivol would boax like a white shirt and trot aers ra duta but appy Ir inspiration came to him why act nc wear one of his wife black petticoats tho the por lion tion that would enow show below the surplice would look exactly like the regulation cassock and no one would ever le 10 the wiser so be he hurriedly sent orant one of the ushers with an explanatory note to hia his wife in the hotel and in chenick the nick of time the petticoat arrived the makeshift turned out to be a perfect success and no one at a distance could tell that he was not wearing a cassock after the close of the ser vice he de dot aided to go out to the body of the church without taking off his robes in order to greet some friends and he was soon the center ot of a group of fashionable women when a green irish maid from the hotel came up and in a lord voice said sald to him yer the missus sint me urther her that lye ye do be rn I 1 w z to wait till yo take it off new rew york tribune |
