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Show WHY DID SHE WEAR APRON? Stylishly Dressed Woman Excites Curiosity by Outer Covering. A handsome street gown of the latest fall mode, the coat being of the long frock pattern so much the vogue: a new turban hat that must have made ' hubby-' either swear or sish when he got the bill: a tall, stylish woman, under un-der 40, and an ov erworked kin hen j apron created no liuie .liveryion on j Main street yesterday afti noon If the lady was una ware that she had failed to doff the apron before she left home, her action on the street did not Show it. Several inches of the kitchen garment hung below the modish coat, which was of a pearl grayish cast. j ; As the strangely attired woman j promenaded Slain street the eyes of her many listers were turned in startled gaze upon her. but she evidently sup-peed sup-peed it was a case of envy, admiration I or jealousy and her pretty head never j once sought the ground, it being the proper thing for women out for the I lirst time in new togs to look as "un-1 "un-1 conscious" as possible. Stopping in front of all the show windows, win-dows, going into the various marts for I the sale of female adornment, the wo- j man with the kitchen apron covered the ; entire length of Main street without a flicker of the eyelid. On her way back to the south end of the shopping. district the peculiar combination of dress attracted at-tracted some of the "horsey" men that . stand on Main and Second South. "Paying a bet, probably," ventured one. And he most likely hit the nail on the head, for when the pearl gray turned east on Fifth South she tore the apron from her waist and tucked it under the folds of her handsome co3t. Then she heaved a sigh of relief and went home. |