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Show A Dinner Dilemma. It was an awkward dilemma in which a minister found himself a day or so ago. He had accepted an invitation invita-tion to dine with a member of his church, and rack his brain as he might he could not fix the identity of the prospective hostess. At last, after much mental exercise, he concluded that the most likely person was Mrs. A , and at the proper hour he touched touch-ed the bell button at her door, was admitted, and hung up his hat, no! daring to ask if that was the house to which he had been invited. Dinner was announced in due time and was heartily enjoyed by the minister, who, after a couple of hours spent in conversation, con-versation, departed for his home, chuckling over his success in so happily hap-pily solving the dinner problem. The next afternoon" the minister chanced to meet Mrs. A and Mrs. B , another an-other of his parishioners, while taking a stroll. "Whs- happened to you last evening?" even-ing?" inquired Mrs. B . "AVe kept the dinner waiting for you an hour beyond be-yond the usual time, but you did not appear." Then and there the light broke in upon the minister. He had been invited in-vited by Mrs. B , but had dined with Mrs. A. He made a complete confession, confes-sion, then an apology, and promised that hereafter he will make every dinner din-ner invitatlci a matter of record. |