A Celebration of Women Writers  "Chapter XI: The Dinner." by
Enid Yandell (1870-), Jean Loughborough, and Laura Hayes
Editor: Mary Mark Ockerbloom  [Page 126]     WHEN the second
session of the World's Columbian Commission was almost ended we
invited a few of our particular friends to dine with us. There
was the courtly Commissioner from Tennessee, the gallant Colonel
from Texas, the genial representative from Arkansas, and the
eloquent Kentuckian. We put our heads together and arranged an
elaborate bill of fare, congratulating ourselves upon the fact
that it was absolutely no trouble to give a dinner when we had
so excellent a cook as Katie. Alas when we met at luncheon, we
were told that Katie had received news of an accident in her
family, and had left suddenly for the country. However, being a
faithful creature she promised to send us a friend who could
even rival her in the serving of a meal. Marjorie seemed a
little nervous over this friend, and her appearance–for she
arrived before we left the house–d