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Show ANECDOTE OF MRS. WOOP. A'GcNztur living In tlie neighborhood of Philadelphia, who had become suddenly rici,fprjiisied;ltouso in a, costly manner, nnd gavo gay parlies, lie had little else but his wealth, however, to render them attractive; his wife beiug especially tin-tutored tin-tutored and unpolished, ug be. had married before 'he becumo rich, and both were elevated ele-vated ljtheir;.presciit.lmhoriance without the requUHe peroulqualiiieaiions to sustain sus-tain jt. .To .rcudcr one l their iarties inqro than usually popular, they iuvitcd Mrvand Mr. NV.ood among their guestsj thesojit first restcctruUy ilrclincd,,on,the ground of fattguo but they wero pressed wfth w piuch, carjiestnesi,- that they at length vrera subdued iota consent. When j the cptertn'mments of the evening were; fably commcocpd, and several ladies among the? visitors had sung, the bpfltcs iiiviiwl Mrs Wood to seat herself at the piano, as tho company would bo.deiighted ' to hour her beautiful voice; but Mrs. Wood bogged, witli a very serious countenance, coun-tenance, to be escufcil. At fiftt- the n-tpuiihiuept n-tpuiihiuept created by tlus refinwl wk evinced by a dead silence and a fixtal; glare; but at length, tho -disappointed! Wtciss Irokp forth: "What.l notsingl Mrs, AVwl; why.iL was' for tld that I invited you to ny! party, f should not havu thought of usk- "g y.otj but or this and 1 told all my guests; ihnif, you. Were coudog,jiud thatt tUey would hour you binti!'' ! "4'0hl" rcplitid Mrs. Wood, with great rcadineits, "tliut quite alter the case; I jwts uot at all aware of this, or 1 should 'uot have refuctd; but since you. have In- vited trie, iirofcssionnlly,!! shall. of course! sing imtnediA(dyl"-,,,J -' ' 'l'hat' a; jrood "crcathrt., rejoined, lite hostefs, "I thought you could not persist lH,refnsiiig-ineJ So Mr;?. .Wood stated herself- at the ipiartol' srtnjr delightfully', aud; to the.-entirQ gratlficaifQirof hostess and jgttestn, gave, tylthdutlteiltatioii, every tbiig sho was asked fo and some Were .erich'prcd., 4 - '' y 'On tfie follbflfing day( howettr, when the host and. liortcstVcre couflflpg up1 the1 cost . ofi tHelr tntcrtalament, '(for, rich pi the were .tUcy had not lost their former regard for econbmyVo.tlielrl'tittpr cod-stetnatibh cod-stetnatibh Jlhefe, camp In a.blfl rromtr. Wood of iwb htindrird. dollars: for' Mrs', Vioftfi "nhtfesslbnali scrvlcesf atJ'ihe ftirif -of, the, preceding; evening, occom-pnnied occom-pnnied by "a-tfote,' couched In term' which made, It quite certain that' -(lie, demand would. Ije legally enfbrcedjf - attempted to be.ressted;nui fibwever' much ,they,wert mortified by this unexpectctl'derantid they dremciLU moat prndent to pay it ud hold their tongues,-j-ittc.iH'Am' rtmtricaixz I |
