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Show A Woman's Ingenuity. At a certain well-known hostelry in Baltimore there occurred a very amusing amus-ing incident lately, when the usual terrapin ter-rapin a la Maryland was supplanted I by an innocent-looking lemon pic. An : order was heard given to the bellboy by a feminine voice emanating from the reception room to secure her a lemon pie at once, as she wanted it for a sick man. Soon the boy returned, apologizing that there were only two in the hotel, and they must be reserved 'for guests and menu orders. With a scornful look she brushed by the bellboy bell-boy and summoned the head waiter, where even earnest persuasions and silver-lined oratory failed to secure the coveted lemon pie. Finally a happy inspiration in-spiration seized. her. "How many slices in a pie?" she blandly inquired. "Six, madam." "Then," shrieking again in the ear-trumpet; "come on; I'll go into the dining room andorder slice after slice until I've gotten that whole pie, for have it I will." And ten minutes later this amused page looked across to the table, where the two women sat surrounded by six slices of lemon pie which were being hastily tied up into the Inevitable shopping woman's package pack-age and carried triumphantly forth to the sick-man. |