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Show A Complicated Case. bBHj Mrs. Mot timer seated herself with HHfl tbo air of nn offended goddess, and fl I removed her gloves with tho cxprcn- B slon ot ono who has suffered untold ! Indignities. BAflJ "Well, what's been going on nt your flHflJ club to-day?" asked Mr. Mortimer, HHfl who saw clearly what was expected of HH fllflj "Tho comtnlttco meeting," snld Mrs. fl Mortimer, bitterly, "and I must say I HflH think It 13 tlmo there was a change BHHl mndo In our presiding officer. When HflBj I was ln her position I Bhould havo Bj made I nhvnjs did a point of lmv- BHflJ Ing things plainly expressed, so no- HHfl body would bo left ln doubt." pHJ "Now, this afternoon," said his wife, HHfl her ludlgnntlon rising ns sho talked, flHflJ this afternocn thero wns a discussion HflH ns to whether we couldn't chnngo the HHfl tiny from Wednesday to Thursday, bo- HHfl causo Fome of us hnvo maids that pre- HHB for to go out Wednesday, because It's H so common Thursday. So many ot H them go then, and they feel It, they'd Hmfl rather go tho day before. It's a com- HBHj man feeling ameng them. HBH "Dut they said It couldn't be done HHB because they liked Thursday, and H when they hnvo two of course It H doesn't matter, for ono stnys nt home, H so cither would do for them, you see. H Uut It Bcoms somo ot them have a Hfl reading circle that day, so they don't Hflfl l.l.p to glvo them that aftcrncon. HmB "It seems ns If It would bo very H selfish If they don't, when so many BmB want It, but thoy talked back and H forth, and my head got to aching so I HBfl could not t'll whether thoy really HBj think they will or wont!" H "I don't wonder." said Mr. Mortl- HHfl mcr, co! "truly issrlng bis hand across H bis forehead. Youth's Companion. HHfl |