Foster, the State news paragrapher of the Cleveland _Press_,
published a paragraph to this effect: “A Marion girl started
her graduating essay as follows: ‘I am fairly worried out with
the incessant pratings of the lords of creation on the duties
and sphere of woman.’” The paragraph closed with the somewhat
dangerous assertion that the editor would bet a new spring hat
that the author of that discourse on woman’s sphere could not
bake a loaf of bread. Two days later Mr. Foster received from
Marion a large box. It contained sundry light loaves of bread
and cake marvelously toothsome. An accompanying affidavit bore
the solemn oath of the sweet girl graduate (who possesses the
pretty name of May Williams) that she had, unaided, made the
wheat-bread marked “Exhibit A,” the two specimens of cornbread
marked “Exhibit B,” and the chocolate, “Exhibit C.” The notary’s
seal of office was affixt to the affidavit, and it was settled
beyond a doubt in Mr. Foster’s mind that his wager had been
accepted. He therefore went out and lavished his week’s salary
on a new spring hat.
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