Betty Is Punished

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Those who know Betty will not be surprised to hear that she has to move. If she lived in New York we doubt if any landlord would stand her in an apartment for 24 hours; in Paris they seem more lenient. She has, however, at last to move, and such an event, as may be imagined, gives her plenty of scope for the exercise of her peculiar talents, and under pretense of helping her father and mother in the arduous business of packing furniture, we find her causing numerous dire calamities. As a final stroke of genius, she locks her mother in a closet which is to be lowered through the window, and when the men come to effect the lowering by means of ropes, she lends them a willing hand. A sudden jerk, however, drags her and one man out of the window, and both, clinging desperately to the slackening rope, fall with a crash to the ground on top of the closet. The article is immediately shattered into pieces, and Betty's mother emerges from the ruins to vent her just anger on all and sundry. Several passersby stop to aid her, the furniture carriers lay about them vigorously and Betty retaliates, but Betty gets a severe drumming from them all that will make her remember this removal for a long time.