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Show A ComSo OF EfmORS. ftupldltjr Jlixed With Carelenett ThaJ drought Mortification to Lovely Womaa. "Talk of a 'Comedy of Errors 1' " ei3 ft woman of society the other day. "X had an experience lately that might Ljttve been called by that name, although It was anything but a comedy to poor tne. You know that I am rather an old fashioned housekeeper and pride myself on my cako, which I make myself from time to time, and of which, when it turns out particularly well, I like to 6end a specimen to some friend. So ths other day, when I hart very good -luck with a new recipe, I arranged my best looking cake, all daintily frosted, ia a cardboard box, and telling my maid to bid the ocachruan take it to Mrs. 3., with my card, I went out to do some shopping. " 'Did you send the cake?' I asked on my return. 'Oh, ma'am, 'exclaimed tha Abigail, 'Jirmes made such a mistake! I told hiia to take the box iu the hall, and wheu I came down stairs I found he had taken the big- case that you brought home yesterday. ' "Well, of course it was a pieca of Stupidity, but I did not really mind, for the ease contained a fine copy of an antique an-tique flying 'Victory,' and as Mrs. SI ia a woman of rare appreciation I fell really pleased that she should have It, and that I, for my part, should have tha credit of remembering her tastes ftud making what I knew would be an acceptable ac-ceptable present. But I was not so well pleased when Mary, the overzealou continued, 'So, as soon a3 I found ou ma'am, what he had done, I told him to go straight back and say that it was a mistake and that you would lika the case back, ma'am!' "You may imagine how I folt! 1 was then too late to do anything, but all night the affair weighed on my mind like an incubus, and the very next morning I wrote Mrs. &. a long explanatory explan-atory note, apologizing for the double mistake of maa and maid and trying to explain how the confusion had arisen. It sounded awkwardly enough, but it was the "best I could do, so I sent it off with the cake, which in the meanwhile had been left waiting in the halL When Jhe man came back, I asked him what fee had done with the case. 'What case?' he said stupidly. 'Why, tho case Mary told you to fetch back from Mrs. S. 'a 'Shure, an I niver got it back at all, was his most unexpected answer, which put the finishing touch to the altogether trying situation, for if I had never written writ-ten my note of explanation it would have been all right When, that afternoon, after-noon, the expressman brought back ths unfortunate 'Victory, ' together with a polite but puzzled note from Mrs. S. returning re-turning the unlucky present (which I afterward learned through a mutual friend had been received with much pleasure and given a conspicuous place in the lib? . t my mortification was complete. jl jourse there was uothing else to be done about it, but I could not bear tho sight of the unlucky statuette and sent it to a distant relative, hoping never to see or hear of it agaia New Tcri Tribur? |