| Show 0 ay iy as SORROWS ORB SEASON I 1 0 by GRACE SPARROW 0 thank you said the girl who likes to talk no chocolates tor for me it you have any lemon juice handy however id ha be obliged the idea now everybody demanded ive been down to the spring opening explained the girl who likes to talk and everything Is designed tor for fragile ghosts and attenuated bean poles A perfect lady this season will be able to take lake shelter behind a lath in case of storm the rest of femininity to 18 cast into outer darkness 0 so o far as clothes are concerned whatever Is to become of any one who weighs more than ninety eight pounds I 1 cant Ima Imag gloel luel there Is abdol absolutely ute nothing tor for the poor creatures to put on having drawn down the blinds and retired to inner chambers they will probably pass a hideous and secluded life until some millionaire endows a foundation that shall design clothes such as may be worn by real human beings the first garment that met my eye looked like an explosion la in a ruffis raffle factory starting at the middle it was a vigorous young ruffle that began winding around in a diagonal manner it continued until it hit the ground still traveling diagonally one side was up and the other down but nob odys skirt hangs straight these days so that apparent difficulty dlan count A little cousin to that ruffle started from the middle and ran diagonally upward wreathing around the shoulders and sleeves and flopping in all directions ions this dress lust just splashed looked her square in the tha eye ruffles the i saleswoman said it htwa wait the latest thing I 1 looked her square in the eye anil and ased her it if elie ehe could 1 conjure up a vision of me in it no one would over ever I 1 weighed less than the tha 10 that I 1 do I 1 dont think that the saleswoman had been long in this wicked soulless city tor for her eyes faltered and she turned pale she said that she had some other modes she would like to show me that of course every one could not wear vear tho the extremes just then I 1 paused horror stricken in my tracks before a mirror pivoted a strange sight it was composed of pale blue taffeta all bunched up around the h alpa alps lik ilka a a washerwoman a skirt there was IL million yards in that bunch streaming over it were garlands of little roses mid and fluffs fluffy of tulle ud and above lt a res of tulle and puffs lad and roses roes and rosebud silk with mor or blu blue it looked somewhat ilke ilka a broad expanse of aunt sky and t then ben I 1 saw that there was 9 a w woman oma n inside it she had a red taco face and double rolls rolli on her neck beak 1 and eb was waa exactly tour four feet broad be before fore her a hardened young slip of a salee salesgirl girL without the hint of a blush was cao cooing that it was BO 00 chic and became her marvelously 1 I fled from that pool of iniquity I 1 felt that nothing less than flight could save me from a like horrible fate 1 I wish said the girl who likes to talk in a voice positively shaken with emot emotion lon 1 I wish that you could have seen me in the dren dreffs they put on me in the next place gathered around the waist were exactly fifteen yards of green taffeta which on my heroic forrd form looked like thirty yards cut gep generously erous ly bulging over each hip was waa what w hat they called a pannier they acted really annoyed when ae n I 1 inquired just how I 1 was 8 going 19 to betl get from adne one raam to another they showed me a hat bat that reminded me of the old cellar door on the tha farm it tilted up in the back at sixty degrees and dipped down in front till it hit my nose perched pre precariously carl on it hit or miss were tight little bunches of undiscovered flowers why all the little dicky birds would have B at the sight right of that hat II if I 1 had worn it out and gone toba ganning down the slide somehow with it on I 1 reminded myself of a woman who had been in a fight and smashed over the tha head with a rolling pin it was what you might call a disheveled hat they p put U t a 0 wrap on me too and murmured that it had just been unpacked from its parts paris box that morning it was as ten feet in diameter when I 1 had it on but generally speaking I 1 was so depressed that I 1 gave up about then and came home im not going down again till I 1 get nice and thin please pass the lehoul chicago dally daily NW news |
