OCR Text |
Show Forever Shut Out of Society. (New York Tribune.) A friend of Frank B. Stockton tells of an occasion when the humorist, who waa as a rule extremely averse to social functions func-tions of any nature, was induced to attend at-tend a "literary" dinner in Washington, given by a certain western senator in honor of a well known Indiana novelist. Mr. Stockton had taken into dinner tha sister-in-law of his host. She was an excellent woman, but anything but "literary." "lite-rary." The conversation touching upon the beauties of Omar Khayyam, a spirited discussion of the Persian poet ensued, during which the bewildered woman from the west caught from time to time tha name of "Omar." Turning to Mr. Stockton, the sister-in-law asked: "Who is this Mr. Omar they're talking about? Very popular in society, I suppose?" sup-pose?" "Whv, madam," replied the humorist, gravely, "that man did something that forever shuts him out of society." "Gracious me!" exclaimed the worthy dame, "and what was that?" "He died some 800 years ago," replied Stockton, smilingly. |