Friends in Council

— Friendship’s Question, propounded at the February meeting of the Club, set us all talking at once, and it was not easy for the clerk of the Club, in spite of that officer’s stenographicphonographic-type-writing-and-setting machine, to detach separate voices from the general buzz and make a neat record. Delay ensued, with the result that one energetic member went about canvassing for answers, various lovers quarreled, preachers took up the parable from their pulpits, and at the April meeting of the Club there was an unusually full attendance, as every one wished to hear the record. The autocratic clerk, without whose irresponsible authority the Club would become a polite Nervine Hospital, was found to have thrown out all but the following votes.