| Show 1 A TRYING MOMENT A touts 1 comans womans needless AgIt agitation atlon about raise false hair wo are very apt at times to let our imaginations make sad cowards of us said a young american lady whose experiences perien ces h hatz te been manifold 11 1 do not ot t think ink that I 1 suf suffered feied more from abject fright than on one bilay day when ridin riding in rotten row during my first season in london ahad I 1 had had typhoid fever the autumn before which le left me rather delicate and the following winter ray my hair came out in such quantities that I 1 finally although very loath to do so concluded to have it shaved and const was waa obliged to make my debut in ia english society and my courtesy to the queen in a wigi wig it was wa savery a very clever one however and I 1 think that no 0 one suspected that it was not my own hair I 1 was absurdly sensitive about it considering consi derins it was waa simply the usual sequence of such a fever and I 1 concealed the fact of in my y shaved head from even my intimate timae in friends growing as red as a peony from r sheer heer consciousness whenever tho the word wig was even mentioned in my presence my chief pleasure in those days was to ride rida in the park for I 1 still felt the effects ofay of my illness it had so happened that somehow or other my wig ha had nd never troubled my mind when I 1 was equipped in hat and habit but suddenly one day a gala day I 1 remember when the prince and princess and no end of notables were in the th e r row ow I 1 s suddenly felt that my unfortunate head covering was slipping and in an instant I 1 saw myself in my minds eye riding with bald and shaven crown wildly down the crowded bridle path the cynosure of all atea royal and otherwise it was an awful sensation I 1 did not dare touch say jay elip clipping ping head headgear gear for fear of haite hastening 11 the catastrophe and besides my mj horse was somewhat skittish and it took bothof both of my hands bands to manage him I 1 assure you yon I 1 turned fairly sick eick with fright and felt ready to faint 1 I shall be disgraced forever 1 shall ishall be in the papers on both sides of the at antiel 1 thought and then aloud to my escort 11 1 I feel very ill indeed I 1 gasped pray call a cab and what can you do with the horses mr A a good natured young ED englishman gl ishman assured bred me that he be could manage and with profuse expressions of sympathy hailed a passing hansom at tha ilia entEa entrance uce to the park nod and put me in it are you sure cure you can go alonet alone he asked anxiously for I 1 must have hare looked really ill yes I 1 answered impatiently yes only tell him to drive quickly inich ly A few minutes later I 1 had bad reached the hotel and hastening to my room I 1 locked the door and with a great ligh of beliel turned to the glass to examine my headgear what was my surprise relief and self pity to find that everything was as tight and secure as possible poe sible abera wat and there had bad not been the slightest t possible danger of tho the dreadful mishap conjured up op entirely by my daive nov w york tl m |
