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Show NOTE HAD PERSONAL FLAVOR. Directions Considerably Astonished Good Man in Pulpit. The minister had just finished a lib j tie opening talk to the children, pre-; pre-; paratory to the morning service, when : Mrs. Berkeley suddenly realized, with j all the agony of a careful housewife, that she had forgotten to turn the gas ; off from the oven in which she had l left a nicely-cooked roast, all ready ' for the final reheating. Visions of a ! ruined dinner and a smoky kitchen ! roused her to immediate effort, and. j borrowing a pencil from the young man in front, she scribbled a note. Just then her husband, an usher in I the church, passed her pew. With a murmured "Hurry!" she thrust the note into his hand, and he. with an ' understanding nod, turned, passed up I the aisle, and handed the note to the : minister. Mrs. Berkeley saw the act in speechless horror, and shuddered as I she saw the minister smilingly open ! the note and begin to read. But her expression of dismay was fully equaled , by the look of amazement and wrath on the good man's face as he read the words: "Go home anti turn off the gas ! " Lippincot t's. |
