Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-19
How the Dresses Didn't Fit.

Two ladies appeared very late at
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?"
II thought I should die. l 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?"
80, thought was falling away aw-
fully, and it almost scared me to death.
"Well, don't let's say anything about
80, Nor
That was all of the conversation that
anybody but the attendants heard, but 1t
was enough. Soon after the husbands
of the two ladies were seen together
laughing as though their hearts would
break, and they told newspaper man
all about it, under the seal of secrecy.
It seems that the two ladies ordered
dresses in Chicago for party, and they
| were to arrive on an evening train, the
night of the party, by express. 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 ladies is 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 tha'
never has brought down the scales a
over one hundred and thirty-six pounds
The little one got into her dress, anG
when she attempted to hook the bottom
hook, the dress Tapped over and the hool
went way around to where woman ha
q pain in the side. She turned pale
and tried the top hook. That hoo
went clear to her shoulder. She locke,
at herself in the glass to see If she hat
fallen away much. Then she called Il
} her husband, who was in an adjoining
! room, wrestling with number tifteel
collar, trying to make it fit a numbe
sixteen shirt. He looked at his forlor
looking little wife, and told her he neve
saw woman that seemed to shrink sc
, He suggested number of things th8
: could be put in to make the dress Fl
but she scorned any foreign interference
After bothering her for little while b,
3 being statesman, saw where the troubl
: was, and ordering the dress packed /
took it in carriage to the house OF tn
lady to whom it belonged. There was
scene also at that house. The good
d proportional lady had put on the wror
# dress and found that it would not
4 around into about seven inches. 81
: felt that she was becoming too large 4
> any kind of use, and called her HUSBAND
Q who was trying to get number egg
@ foot into a seven boot He was joke
if too. and he had good deal OF fun WI
! her. and then the other husband arrlv
u with the right dress, and an exchange W
n made. and when the right women
y into the right dresses, and ell the moo 70
B. we're hooked, and the dresses t1tted Ii
"a the paper on the wall, two OF the mar
:. soonest and happiest women IN Mllwaak
IL felt better than they did an hour befol
{, and they went to the party and nae
to splendid time. But it looked dark
them up to about nine o'cloek.-Pec
Sun.