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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, All of us have heard about off the forehead hairdos, off the shoulder shoul-der dresses, and such as those things in women's fashions, but I and I suppose you, have never heard of off the hips for skirts as was shown lately by Marge Gardner. Gard-ner. It seems that Doc and Romania Bird, Dorothy Killpack and Marge Gardner went to Manti for Memorial Memor-ial Day, taking along a bunch of kids and all went well until the re turn trip home. It is reported that Doc was coming along in a good ly manner of speed and was approaching ap-proaching the standard of his son, Don, and it is supposed that the fast driving caused the trouble, uui mere are oiner scnoois or thought as well. Anyway when Marge stepped out of the car at her home in Delta she was minus her skirt. She had started the trip in a two-piece outfit and looked right stunning, but on the arrival home she had but one piece of the dress and caused quite a commotion among am-ong sightseers along that street. Now there are many conjectures as to what happened to her skirt: she may have lost it in the cemetery ceme-tery in Manti while they were there . If she did that there is no question but that those honest Manti people will find it, turn it into the paper office and Marge will get her skirt back. Also she may have lost it along the way as it could have blown out of the car and no one would have noticed notic-ed it because they were in a hurry and didn't want to stop for a minor min-or thing like a skirt. And too, she could have left it in the car where Doc will run across ac-ross it before long, as soon as he gets his sparrow problem settled. Where she 'lost the skirt is of little importance, but her appearance appear-ance at the family homestead gives one's imagination quite a working over. Her children, who ran to greet her, noticed nothing wrong, as they have been used to seeing her in various stages of undress. To Doc it was nothing new and all he did was think that they have certainly changed styles in a hurry hur-ry these days from the long skirts to nothing. his extended eyeballs, and Buss, who fainted. All the others took it in their stride. Arch, had he known the facts, but what polititican cares for facts WOU1U Jiui, nave uccji uystri aa lie was, as it was all passed off very neatly around here and even tho' Marge was slightly disrobed, she carried herself with aplomb and assurance into the house, But she is keeping a weather eye on that seed crop and I don't blame her. Because what wife gets a new outfit out-fit when a husband runs a farm? Toots. I Romania was looking across the street to see what the wind had don to her flowers, and Dorothy was looking back up the street, watching for her husband, Ward, local pill pusher, and so missed the fun. Ward, coming down the street, in a sedate and businesslike fashion fash-ion took one look and clipped three fence posts off in front of Clyde Underhills. He is wearing dark glasses these days for protect ion against any future upsetting sight. Bud Huff looked out the window win-dow and seeing Marge rather scantily scan-tily dresed from the waist down, thought Marge had taken up ten- nis wmcn reminaea nim mat tne fishing season was about to open and he hurried to the basement to tie a couple more flies. Nate and Chris Ward, sitting on their porch, both looked over, and Nate said, "Chris have you noticed what a pretty little girl Marge has. Hair like spun honey and she is losing her freckles. She is growing up to be a knockout." Chris looked at Nate and it is a good thing that Nate's eyes were on Marge's little girl, because Chris had a nasty look in her eye that, even though it wasn't a look that would kill Nate, it was one that would lay him up in the hospital for quite some time. Frank Law, across the street, slapped at a mosquito and looking look-ing at Marge thought, "I believe it would be more economical to buy a skirt than to have to cover about half our body with repellent. repell-ent. (Frank doesn't know a skirt is not much protection against mos-quitos, mos-quitos, because I don't think he has worn one as much as us girls have.) He yawned and drove out to see his tall wheat grass. Buss Shields looked put and seeing see-ing Marge remarked to his wife, "I knew I would be rewarded for the. work on the church building." And after saying that he promptly prompt-ly fainted. Evan chided his wife saying, "Marge Dear, we'll get a seed crop this year and I'll get you a new outfit, so don't worry about losing your skirt." Arch Gardner, hearing of the episode, sent a telegram to Marge saying, "Please keep everything under cover stop if the Democrats hear of this my political career is defunct stop didn't you have a coat along question mark stop have you considered suspenders question mark stop stop it stop stop at least while I am in the legislature stop what you should bear comma Marge comma is your testimony stop don't overdo it stop for hell's sake stop your loving father-in-law Arch stop." So we find after a canvass of all who happened to be looking that out of the many who saw poor Marge's predicament that only on-ly a few are concerned about such goings on and it takes more than losing your skirt to raise an eyebrow eye-brow around here. The only cads who looked and looked were Ward and he got a crumpled fender for |