Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-23
A WRONG ASSIGNMENT.



with Rather Cloudy Results.
II say said the police reporter, tip
ping his hatroVer his eyes and scratch
ing the back of his head, 81 don't know
whether this is right"
Don know whether what is rightw
demanded the managing editor.
"This wedding. Invent II re last and
they gave me heap of rot about their
frocks, but l don't know whether it
comes out straight or not. Now here is
Mrs. Isaac Belden, 1--WE got her in q
pannier silk, trimmed la gros grain,
with black point lace underskirt and box
plated hair. Does that's naturalp"
WHO sent you TO a wedding? asked
the managing editor contemptuously.
Don't you know that gros grain is color
That was gros grain, box plated dress,
trimmed la black point lace, and her
hair was combed in pannier. You ought
to know better than to get things mixed
that way. Who else did you get? How
was the bride dressed?n
"Iv'e got her all right, replied the po-
lice reporter. She wore awhite boNftInt
with a princess of thule vail; the under
skirt cut decoIlete around the bottom, and
trimmed with basque at the Sides
That's better said the managing edi-
tor, encouragingly. That sounds some
thing like it. How was her harp
Her hair was shirred, replied the
police reporter. Shirred at the sides
and corsaged on top"
~ don't believe that's right, observed
the managing editor. Read that again"
at was cOrsaged on the side and
shlrred on top" said the police reporter,
referring to his notes.
''Of course, smiled the managing edi-
tor. 1t makes all the difference in the
world. You never saw woman with
her hair corsaged on, in your life. Who
else have you got?''
miss Jennie Smith was the brides
maid. She wore silk socks, with a
streak of yellow tapestry up the side.
Her hair was bumped.
''How do you mean?n
at was plastered down in front and
stuck up behind, Ikea hens tall
Banged, you mean. How was the
dress cut?n
well, it was an even stretch from
the back of her neck half way up the
front stairs. That was one piece. She
had on petticoat that showed the whole
front and was trimmed with some cloudy
stuff that had dropped down at one end.
That backpart was energy, though, and
she called it train with some kind Of
a law term in front oft
"Was it revised statutes?" asked the
editor.
mo, that wasn't it,
Ibid it have anything to do with ali
mony and the custody of the children?"
That wasn'tit. 1t was train with
something legal in front of it. / tried
to remember, because they have it in the
City Hall" &.
Couldn't have been anything about
contempt of court, could it?''
That's 1t exclaimed the police re-
porter? 10 rer part train, and up part Of
the-of where it hooked on the body part,
you know"
1.-The bustle?"
"Yes. she had it tied up with a broad,
white tape, and the darndest big bow
knot you ever saw"
Certainly, that's right; said the
editor, you want to say that
she had court train looped back with
a delicate tape so as to show the contour
Of the petticoat which was deliberately
finished with loops of linen"
81 see, replied the police reporter,
memorandum. Her cousin
was Miss Mears of Qouge. l only got
her hair. 1t was poached on top with
revers, and had a big pair of silver tongs
stuck through the hind part. Better not
say anything about that"
Certainly. You've gotit right. Did
they have big superb
"They had boned head cheese and
candy and lobster and some shaky stuff.
Lots of wine"
"Ehr'
"You bet!'
Then, just give the caterers name
and say that on this occasion the table
fairly groaned under such a weight of
his excellent provisions, and even the
most fastidious appetites suceumbed to
the charms of his delicacies. How are
you going to wind it up?"
81 say that the guests danced until
late, or rather an early hour in the
That's business, smiled the manag-
ing editor If you do it all as the last
part, you've got magazine article"