An Odd Trick

"Women play odd trieks on one another sometimes," said a lady of fashion, "but the queerest I everheard of was perpetrated by one social leader in a western city upon another. They were rivals and hated each other accordingly. though outwardly they preserved the semblance of pleasant relations. Every chance that either got to erive a dig at the other was eagerly seized. But the final and most effective stroke, after which no calis were exchanged, was delivered by Mrs. L. She sent out cards for a grand entertainment and then took pains to find out what Mrs. F., her competitor, was going to wear. A g-orgeous pink brocaded satiu was the material of Mrs. F.'s gown, it was ascertained. Accordingly, Mrs. L. , whose husband was in the dry goods business, obtained several hundred yards oí the same identical stuff and draped the walls of all the rooms on the lower floor of her house with it. You may imagine the feelings of Mrs. F. on arriving in her superb new frock, which she expeoted to make a sensation. Naturally she ordered a carriage and drove away in tears."