Show OUR BEST SOCIETY Fashions rlnklinr Amnt Ward off Wickw Flries flings on her IID erS Bells n i her tae 6heha1 h vc mnsc Wbcreversr goes She shall have music wherever she goes wherever she goes wherever she oestt Bow tbesenursfor day rhymes jitacicil in my ears a few days ugo I cuuld not get rid of them And all because of n little informal call I made upon Mis Nougat who Hv s upon Clinton Avenue 1 dropped in for Ii careless chat and bad hardly bgan to talk of Ibis and that and whatnot before I heard the muffled tinkle tinkle of a tiny bell that seemed to cone from no place in particular partic-ular At Orst it did not disturb me but gradually as the muic continued without bible cause it gnnwdl not exactly to annoy rather say tease or pique me 1 soon discerned tbn t the jingling sound was regulated in volume bv the movements of Miss Nougat closely eyed her wristbands neckace finger rings but there was nothing at all resembling a bell I had read somewhere some-where that tbe darlings of fashion had taken to wearing these tinkling cymoals on their boot tops and so when it could be done with seeming delicacy I dropped my eyes to where the yojng ladys feet were most likely to be trust idg of course that they would not be bidden under her dress too they were quite open to view But my timid glance bad neither chance nor need of peering beyond a dainty ankle to convince con-vince me that I should not find there an explanation bf the puzzling belt rings The ladys feet were encased in a pair of low > hoes sandals I believe is the technical termthe tops of which I could tee as plainly as need be and there were no bells there The never ceasing ringing irritated me straugeh Several times I found myself stopping abruptly in the middle of a sentence to listen to the intrusive Unkm tink It actually made me Irv our and distrait Twice I was tempted to ask my companion the source of the malapropos music But her womanly intuition seemed to warn Her of what was in my thoughts and she cleverly turned the talk from what might prove a forbidden natb Yet she rather enjoyed my discomfiture discomfit-ure She moved about somewhat more than the quiet current of our converse demanded And she had a way of emphasizing em-phasizing many of her remarks by stamping her foot with much the same effect as tbe use of three or four exclamation excla-mation points whereupon the lift e bell emitted a perfect shower of tintinnabulations tintin-nabulations I began to wonderbut I stopped right there If I ever began to wonder there is no telling where I would pull up at Yes I had better go before my uneasy r uriosity led me to embarrassing embar-rassing queries Miss Nougatnoticed an apparent brusQueness in my manner and when she bade me good night at the parlor door there was just the quaintest twinkle imaginable in her eyes I heard he walk towards the library humming hum-ming a Casino waltz very softly with pjamssimo accompaniment of that same exasperating tink atink not quite unlike the mellowed notes that one catches on a summers day from far on fields and meadows The mysterious sound haunted me so persistently terleaving the house that I began to think that I was the victim of a delusion that if any ringing did exist it was only in my mind Still I I could not get nd of the tinnient sensation sensa-tion On the contrary every succeeding succeed-ing tinkle rung some new change on the nowfamiliar tune At first it was the tinkle from Mother Goose She shall have music wherever she goes wherever she goes wherever she goes until I found my head nodding in unconscious accord with the verbal rhyme Then I was engaged in a silent struggle to mould my thoughts in consonance with the T drmpTemepts tiC Poes Bells as I had heard diem reck l > yan amateur ama-teur elocutionist at o recent4 evening at hmeJiThenl Ihougfatof Matthias the wretch whose crime was visited uponihiat in the shape aoLbells wbfcht no eae theard bud hizxselt Lmean the char ff r wdr redlj1Inme1dlen be goesatbroughfhetplayiaia aortoLfivea stew waltz as iLmoved by elda striags to keep Use wjth t14e spasaodiejant ling But as I had Fever murdered any peddler who drove abqutthe country in an open sleigh TfeJt K eapedalnneasi ness tc r nSStin the ringing was the re IraWxd myean as if to drive away hepban onT seises JgtI oJ11 Deemed to ettbe belle rattling at a Iivalei ace f I would atot bed i4 steep > It would past away with good nights rest i Bat the veriest trifle eoaspired to further my uneasiness I jmshed a chair away ran the 6ryplace and each of the casterSSeaCopt a beJlUke uote pitched iqs i difiVeaf key JI took a glass of water frost the table and in doing so struck it aanU them plt berN ber-N ot1 ng very unusual abont thatf No but upon this occasion that goblet seemed called spoof to nag oat a high C until the surface of the water fairly bubbled with soundwaves Everything I touched with a trace of metal or glass about it began some manner of liar zrpoious vibration At my wits end for peace I threw jnyselton the bed But whereas that coach usually deported itself with the quiet that becomes a place of rest tonight every individual spring uttered a distinct and different note To my excited imagination it was no difficult task to fancy that these notes arraBged Uteuuehee IB systematic and baraoBienstseqBeee I thought l myself at a pertermaace ef the Swiss bell rim eta Kvery movement I tossed tos-sed bout uneasily oermrd to introduce iome new feature of tbe programme Now It was a tuarche miliUire now a Pklka nedwa v nit W apavoti newa funornLdlrxe > < UA orue nieajurefrta 11 IltfoTliiilflP mid when The lirr ipnc happened to fall auninst the and iron I m nine concluded tbat I was being treaieil tii tile usual piree tie rem brarridle Anvi i Cfcorus and the ntprtniumeiit being ver 1 went to step In my dreillll r ralher nIJhtt are I nureil us the clapper in Tie Curfew lllt Nt Ring loNicb 1 which I had heard a Mmiur lady in ray ninirr nnuque deer declaim at a con eration a few evenn us b fore I w s nwk ne < l m tha morninz by theuuiiit > of till chin11 io till Lurch Uiw r opM it but as I had frequency beanltli lulls I knew that they did brave tin Hciunl existence outside of my iiHunltrni Itrjln Still the unenMnes elf tli pre hiliiit I night was not die 1IIIt1 l Vtii the lmness if daylight llitrr dm IXMIH HII aiidniioim iilfA that + jiBKiiMl 1 HMIution of the mysterv Hut I was il tiriitiiieil to actrtain bijuiiil I H ilniiln whether ornnt durliiK nix u lUll I hlI N < > uiat I heard a viri Uible bell lOr whether I nuitt roiul nlc Inn I liml XHriHi el a wellknown aviiutuii f i iitfini SJHV Accortiiiiulynftera breakfast at which I was Hhui hf ail to toiiili if LHP or pun 1 lw i Uit again that awful jiiiule I scent to see nn M < rl fninl w ntiiiuii anil fold lien of the cborir gadfly I Unit had M > worm hd me My fntII I r < inril piizzli for n moment ami the n how she lunched attuned at-tuned 4 o you ever read the fashion journal jour-nal 1 she luirtllv asked Well no nut rvrxiurlv But pray tell me did I really bear a bell after ill 7 Why of course JOH lur Aid cant Jim l iluHuint whrrr the hell wai1 Nfl I ciniot HI lead it is i bet tool to-ol l anti iiiinuiiiation under a tight rein in ome uriiiiii tatire Wellyrtu dear iiii > plii > tlcntpd bar von ullllt hIS VP II nil to go far to find the source of our iiuirbul uneasiness Miss Noiivai wore the bell It Ye but where Oh her well on her garter if yo will know it And then toy friend told me of the very latest phase of fashion folly Nil o > e < > f the inner iitrliowl would think of going without one of thee tiny beN fatened to h r garb r And this gar ten Is bound by rertain coiiveniiondli ties In its choice fancy may not run not to color It mut not be black or white or blue tor red NmhiriK fact but yellow will do Ant u must be just so wide independent ot any illness to especial condition of comfort But what i this all for It is not expected to be seen A mere whim caprice Not at all not at all Tbe entire arrangement bell garter yellowness out coiaiilcl is deemed a taiUman of f fcCO1l ttgb lidw ufdl luck lo lose the bell would cause no little worry to the wearer bMnc thought a certain premonition of illfortune in love When the vojmi woman becomes engaged the bell is I men lo the unfortunate unfor-tunate knight who has won her hand Is he told where it comes from Bless you nothatb I suppose not until they have been engaged a very very long time That reminded me thatl had recently seen several fellows with minute sleigh charms hanging from their watch chains Oh if they only knew l But there are lets of things in this world it M just as well not to knowC Jb Nln New York World |