The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-09
How the Dresses Didn't Fit.

Two ladies appeared very late at q
party, and as they met in the dressing
room, the following conversation ensued:
what did you think when you tried
to hook up that dress, and found that
you couldn't get it around you into ten
inches?"
ST thought I should die. I thought
my time had come, and that dropsy had
set its seal on me. But what did you
think when you put on the dress sent to
you, and found that it Tapped over almost
enough to make a new dress Z"
go, 1 thought I was falling away aw-
fully, and it almost scared me to death"
"Well, don't let's say anything about
it p'
80, Nop
That was all of the conversation that
anybody but the attendants heard, but it
was enough. Soon after the husbands
of the two ladies were seen together
laughing as though their hearts would
break, and they told a newspaper man
all about it, under the seal of secrecy.
1t seems that the two ladies ordered
dresses in Chicago for a party, and they
were to arrive on an evening train, the
night of the party, by express. The
husbands of the two ladies were at the
train, with orders to the messenger to
deliver the packages. The packages
were both alike, and the dresses were
very nearly alike. As soon as the pack
ages were delivered the husbands jumped
into carriages and drove home real quick,
finding their better halves all ready to
put on the dresses. The messenger of
course gave each man the wrong pack
age. One of the ladiesis a large, splen-
did, handsome, good natured, jolly wo-
man, who weighs over two hundred
pound, and the other is a sweet little
pink-cheeked, bright-eyed woman that
never has brought down the scales at
over n hundred and thirty-six pounds.
The little one got into her dress, and
when she attempted to hook the bottom
hook, the dress Tapped over and the hook
went way around to where a woman has
q pain in the side. She turned pale,
and tried the top hook. That hook
went clear to her shoulder. She looked
at herself in the glass to see if she had
fallen away much. Then she called in
her husband, who was in an adjoining
room, wrestling with a number fifteen
collar, trying to make it fit a number
sixteen shirt. He looked at his 'forlor1
looking little wife, and told her he never
saw a woman that seemed to shrink So
He suggested a number of things thai
could be put In to make the dress fit
but she scorned any foreign interference
After bothering her for a little while he
being a statesman, saw where the trouble
was, and ordering the dress packed h
took it in a carriage to the house of the
lady to whom it belonged. There was
scene also at that house. The goodl,
proportioned lady had put on the wrenl
dress and found that it would not g
around into about seven inches. Sh,
felt that, she was becoming too large TO
any kind of use, and called her husband
who was trying to get a number eigh
foot into a seven boot. He was a joker
too, and he had a good deal of fun wit
her, and then the other husband arrive
with the rightdress, and an exchange wa
made, and when the right women &c
into the right dresses, and all the hook
we're hooked, and the dresses fitted Xix
the paper on the wall, two of the HAND
soonest and happiest women in milwaukee
felt better than they did an hour before
and they went to the party and had
splendid time. But it looked dark fc
them up to about nine o'clock.-Peck
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