Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-09-21


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Well. I vent into ,0~n. for ne lived
in the country. and -. 81 cours<. wAs
in pursuit a . bargain. hurri-f 10 a
CERTAIN milliners shop, famed for ITS
cheapness. Here i selected bonnet
suitable in shape and general appear
anee for q woman Of about seventy.
Ii was black velvet, with q coarse blue
flower in it, The latter offended even
nv taste, snd having heard that brown
xss fashionable, without stopping to
consider that brown and black ~ere the
ugliest Of all contrasts, Immediately
ordered the blue to be replaced by brown
| face trimmings.
NY husband, absorbed in tho prepar-
alton OF his lecture" thought no more
of the bonnet. The day We started we
were behind time, and we barely caught
the train, so that the full effect of my
appearance did not dawn upon his as
tonished gaze, until the cars were fairly
under way. 70 make matters worse, l
had mounted fur jacket, which had
also purchased at a bargain; and this
jacket being clumsily put together, and
much too large for me, gave me an ap-
pearance decidedly bearish.
Ny husband viewed me with aston.
ishment, and said, in an intense whis'
per,
"That bonnet Where did you get
it? Were it not for all these people,
would pitch it out of the car window.
And as for that jacket" Here words
failed him.
OF course, as usual, I was angry,
forgetting that my husbands aesthetic
sense made him suffer keenly, whenever
his eye rested upon me.
We reached our destination ct last.
All the professors were $50 delighted"
to meet my husband, etc., etc. But I
could not but see that they eyed me
askance, and in private they asked my
better-half, What part of England
did your wife come from?" They could
not understand how an American lady
could make such an "object" of her
self.
The eventful evening came, and all
my wifely pride was aroused. OF
course secured prominent place in
the audience, selecting one where my
husband could not fail to see me.
There was large and intellectual as
semblage, and my husband did re-
markedly we'll, at least at the COM
mencement. But suddenly his gaze
fell full upon me. He began to STAN.
mer and stutter. In vain he strove to
avert his gaze. A dreadful fascination
held him. He could not recover him.
self, and made failure of what ought
to have been, and would other wise have
been, the most learned lecture of the
season.
As the audience slowly moved out, I
had the modification of hearing one
say to the other, ''What was the matter
with the man? A truly remarkable lee
ture spoiled in the delivery"
And then, to cap the climax, heard
one of the professors, elegant in his
evening toilet, declare to the lady be-
side him, in vehement UNDERGONE,
"How can you wonder? If I had such
O shabby-looking woman for wife, and
saw her sitting there so conspicuously,
staring me out of countenance, should
have failed too"
My husband afterward confessed
to me, that the "swful bonnet" was
the cause of it all. He told me it had
pursued him like q nightmare, from
the moment he first beheld it; and as
sooI as he saw it in the lecturer room,
it had confused his utterance, and
tripped him up ali the way through his
lecture.
Since that fortunate evening-as l
now regard i'll am Q changed woman.
I buy no more "bargains. If my cap
offends my Petruchio, / abolish it.
l study the laws Of good taste-very
nearly akin to those Of good sense. I
get honest opinions from Trustworthy
friends. ! try to dress veil, for real
ise its importance. IN short, I hope
that the day will presently come. when
my husband. Who has long cea ed to
speak of me =. such, will TO longer
have occa~i"n even TO think of lae a..
NY Shabb, Wife"
The iutreauctioa within the last feu
years Of inpscved drying m@raises
has given impetus 30 brAsches of farm
ing hong p~glecsea- Pampkins veil
dried and pscked bring . good psiee.
and corn-6elfs gill this snusoa have the