OCR Text |
Show SOME CONSOLATION IN THAT . Growing Maiden Quick to Recognize and Announce That Conditions Might Be Much Worse. At the beginning of hot weather last summer's clothes always regain respect. re-spect. They are then buttoned hurriedly hur-riedly Into service. Dressmakers foresee fore-see this time, providing deep hems and convenient tucks; mothers dislike It for the proof it enforces of their growing grow-ing daughters' added Inches. Her mother was trying one of last summer's resurrected glories on Mary Jane. "Goodness gracious, Mary Jane, how you have grown I" she said, look- . ing despairingly at the short dress. "This hem will have to be let down at least three inches." Mary Jane was plainly troubled. "I don't see why I grow so much, It just makes you have to let out and let out. If I keep on growing tall I soon , won't be able to go through the doorways." door-ways." Suddenly her face brightened. "I'm not so tall as I might be, though," she added, "for just think how tall I would have been if there wasn't so much turned up for my feet." |