Narrow social mishap in a delicate dinner party
Mrs Marshall seeks social ascent in L society but endures tight slippers. At a dinner Dabney helps her under the table to fetch a lost slipper. A reveling party misreads their absence while searching for them and the episode ends with a near disaster for the Marshall family.
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Huntington Dabney
Dabney
Mr. Marshall
Mr. Dabney
Mrs. Marshall
Mrs Marshall
Rand
Mr Dabney
FOR THE CHILDREN Play market tale with letters and traded objects
A narrated play game where a dealer buys a named object and players offer items for its letters. The buyer records offers, then explains the final trades and uses for each traded item, as in a market tale where eight players exchange goods and form a story.
The Body Parts Resolve to Serve Each Other
A fable where the feet refuse to walk and hands stop working but the body collapses. Seeing death, the body parts reconcile, agreeing to serve one another again, and the body becomes lively and strong as before.
A Plant That Coughs
A French botanist notes a tropical plant that can cough like a child. The fruit resembles a common bread bean and the plant’s dusty leaves trigger gas-filled air chambers to explode with a coughing sound. The cranky plant irritates observers with its dusty reaction.
Mermaids and Mermen in Dugong and Manatee Habits
The article notes that dugongs off northern Australia and manatees often hold their young on the flipper or rest a baby on it. When a strange object appears, the mother lifts her body and looks human, a behavior that may have inspired ancient tales of mermaids and mermen through striking resemblance.
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Australia
A Bright Boy and the diplomat joke
A classroom joke features Johnny explaining the earth axis as an imaginary line and wearing imaginary clothes. The dialogue shifts to a rebus about being too wise, then a closing joke where a father explains a diplomat as someone who means one thing while others think he means another.
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Johnny
Witness in court prompts witty age reply
A lawyer questioned a woman in the witness box about her age and she quipped that she was old enough to have sold milk for him to drink as a baby and had not yet received payment.
Youth sent to penitentiary for check-raising offense
Montesano reports a young man convicted last week of check-raising at the whaling station was sentenced to an indefinite term of not less than two years and began his trip to the Walla Walla penitentiary yesterday under state guard. The piece also notes local church services and a reading room, with details on Herald delivery and carrier issues.
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Montesano
A. Sandar
Walla Walla
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