Show DODGED A PEACE OFFERING pugnacious man refused to accept the loving cup VI ft are in a peculiar predicament said the man about town by we I 1 mean the members of a club that meets once a month for dinner just to promote good fellowship our pres ident who founded the club is sort of a crank he s a good fellow in a way but ants to run things to suit himself and sometimes we have brou trou ble with him not long ago we had a row that nearly d erupted the club we all thought he was to blame and told him so but after a while the out burst died down and then we thought we d like to show him there was no permanent hard feeling so we decided to give him a loving cup as he Is a valuable man to all of us by an accident he heard of the se cret and at once wrote us that no man or men on earth could give him a lov ing cup that be wouldn t accept one least of all from us after the scrap we just had we all went to him or wrote to him urging him to let the presentation take place but he stead lly refused then we told him bed have to accept it that it was all ready and it would break up the club it he take it he said he was will ing to resign but have a losing cup he would not that if we attempted to present it to him he not only would leave the club but cut every one of us off his list of acquaintances he won out W e can t afford to lose him so we are trying to cancel the order tor the cup |