The Portland daily press., 1882-02-20
brooklyn Eagle.l
About How it is Done.

81 say!' said the police reporter, tipping his
hat over his ewes and scratching the back Of
his head, "Idon't know whether this is right"
"Don't know whether what is right?" de-
manded the managing editor.
"This wedding. went there last night and
they gave me heap of rot about their frocks,
but 1 don't know whether it comes out straight
or not. Now here is Mrs. Isaac Belding. I've
got her in a pannier silk, trimmed Ia gros
grain, with black point lace underskirt and
box plated hair. Does that sound natural?"
"Who sent you to wedding?" asked the
managing editor contemptuously. Don't you
know that gros grain is color? That was a
gros grain, box plated dress, trimmed a Ia
black point lace, and her hair was combed en-
pannier. You ought to know better than to
get things mixed that way. Who else did you
get? How was the bride dressed?"
"I've got her all right" replied the police
reporter. "She wore white 5oufdnt with
Princess of Thule vail; the un6erskirt cut
tlecoHet6 around the bottom, and trimmed with
basque at the Sides
That's better" said the managing editor,
encouragingly. THAT sounds something like.
How was her hair?"
'Her hair was shirred," replied the police
reporter. "Shirred at the sides and corsaged
on top"
"I don't believe that's right" observed the
managing editor. "Read that again."
"It was corsaged at the sides and shirred on
top" said the police reporter, referring to his
| notes.
"Of course" smiled the managing editor.
''It makes all the difference in the world.
| You never saw woman with her hair cor
saged on top in your life. Who else have you
got?''
"Here's the brides mother. She pranced
| around in an iridescent bead, cut low-necked
| and hoisted up on the side with some kind OF q
| plant. I've forgotten the name OF II"
81 know that style," said the managing edi-
| tor resting his elbows on his desk and his chin
| on his hands. sit had a big rip down the
back, didn't it?'
That's it, like V and tied up with green
| shoe stringi'
| "Of coursel' grinned the managing editor.
| "You can't fool me on frock. You want to say
| that 1t was a-what color did you say the shoe
string was? Green? Then the frock must
| have been redp'
mo, it was the color of clam" said the pO-
| lice reporter.
"Oh, yesl Yes, yesl know. You want to
say that it was d gorgeous, deep sea pearl col
| ored business, trimmed with a gore e1l p0uf and
caught at the side with delicate floral design,
which was specially rich in its artistic effect.
| Did you get her hair?"
| "Her hair was French. had it somewhere
| but don't find it. 1t was either French or
| Spanish, and 1Orgot WHICH,. at.n .I
"You ought to be careful about such things,
| but we'll call it a Ia Pyrenees, and she can
| take her pick as to the side of the mountains
| she belongs to. Who else was there?
Miss Jennie Smith was the bridesmaid
| She wore silk socks, with streak OF yellow
| tapestry up the side. Her hair was bumped.i
"How do you mean?" demanded the man
| aging editor.
''II was plasteIed down IN front and stuck
| up behind, like a hens tail.
Banged! you mean How wss her dress
| cut?"
| "Wel, it was an even stretch from the back
| of her neck half way up the front stairs That
| was one piece. Then she had on petticoat
| that showed the whole front and was trimmed
| with some cloudy stuff that had dropped down
| at one end. That back part was the energy,
| though and she called it train, with some
| kind of law term in front of it."
| "Was it revised statutes?" asked the edi-
tor?''
| mo, that wasn't it."
"Did it have anything to do with alimony
| and the custody of the children"
THAT wasn't it. 1t was train with some
| thing legal in front of it. i tried to remember,
because they have it in the City Hall.
"Couldn't have been anything about con-
/ tempt OF court, could it?
| "That's i'll" exclaimed the police reporter;
| "a court train and up around the lower part
| of the top part of the-of where it hooked on
| to the body part, you knowF
'The bustle?"
ayes she had it tied up with broad, white
| tape and the darndest big bow knot you ever
saw"