Show ON THE QUIET By THE TATTLER IJ season of holly and mistletoe if is drawing near ear and every T- T TIlE THE afternoon finds the shops filled with the Christmas shoppers believe in H preparedness and who dislike the rush rush and scramble of the last few days before Oh Christmas It It Ii would be well for the young barrister to order his roses lilies earlier arlier this season and to buy perhaps more Last year attractive matrons and maids alike were the recipients of his thoughtfulness One matron received a cluster of pink Killarney Killarney Kil- Kil larney y buds tied with tulle in the same tint the maid who is noted for or h hr r clever repartee received on Christmas morning an immense im int- immense im- im mense box of American Beauties It chanced that at one of the informal afternoon festivities that prevail in the holiday season they met for 2 o'clock bridge Mrs l X X was telling a group of frie friends ds about the beautiful presents present good old 1 Saint Nick had left her and among them mentioned the sheaf of pink roses f from rom Mr Blank Now Nowr the maid chanced to tell the players play play- ers at her table about the beauties she also had received from the same source The matron overheard and biff the biff the very holiday air was charged with Mith electricity Mrs X hurried over to Miss E. E Estable Estable Es E.'s s 's 1 ta table le Do ODo you mean to tell me Blank sent you your American Beauties Beautie 1 II and me 14 lie He He certainly did replied Miss E. E and to tol l prove her assertion she pulled a couple of rosy petals from her belt The he players put down their cards al and d listened to to-q dissertation on the fickleness of men and lawyers in particular until the unengaged l e gag d girls inwardly vowed they would never be interested in in lawAnd law And fAntl- think how I have wined and dined him moaned the matron 1 l q and then you to receive the beauties and me and her herI I nose w was s on a level Jevel with the church steeples I Moral 1 If you send women flowers this year order clusters of i violets ts for far all and peace will prevail U 1 fl sat before the window frankly en dishabille Her hair w was s S S the yellow of ripe corn her eyes the bh blue e of a summer sea her herI herskin herskin I skin kin the smooth luster of a ripe peach One leg rested on the knee n c pf of the other j both were a vision i in black silk sUk hosiery Between th the fingers of one white hand rested an unlighted Turkish cigarette ant an her crimson lips were curved in a little enigmatical smile fixed J but bit fascinating I Those passing gasped at the picture she made and well wen they might A cascade of ruffles and ribbons fell almost to her knees knees- airy iry chiffon through which a hint lint of pink skin was faintly visible I Her fer eyes stared haughtily o out olit t over the heads of the fast last lasta a assembling s crowds crowd She smiled and would continue to smile at them 1 I until mtH 6 0 o'clock in the evening Then some unimaginative clerk lower the green shade in the window and drape a dust prot protecting sheet h t about her Such is the life of a wax model The modeL The e VE AL years ago Charles Dana Gibson published in an Life a S SEVERAL series ri s of very interesting pictures The Widow and Her Friends Some of the scenes pictured might apply locally these days to a n certain fascinating young widow who since the Charity ball has been the center of attra attraction tion at a number of informal affairs I t e Friends are wondering if her intentions are serious with the I r s Bachelor ac elor who ho was withstood d Cupids Cupid's advances for several I I seas seasons s I |