The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
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 dld you think when you trled
to hook up that dress, and found that
you couidn't get it around you into ten
" thought should die. 1 thought
my time had come, and that dropsy had
set It's seal on me- But what did yo"
THINK when you put on the dress sent TO
You, and found that it Tapped over almost
enough to make a new dress 2"
., thought 1 was falling away aw,
fully, and 1t almost scared me to death.
8 Well, don't let's say anything about
go, Nor
That was all of the conversation that
anybody but the attendants heard, but II
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 1t, under the seal OF secrecy:
1t seems that the two ladies ordered
dresses IN Chicago for party, ana they
were 10 arrive on an evening tram, Ihe
night OF the party, by express Inc
husbands OF the two ladies were at the
tram, with orders to the messenger 10
deliver the packages. The packages
were both alike, and the dresses were
very nearly alike. AS soon as the pack
ages were delivered thehusbands jumped
into carriages and drovehome 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 a large, splen-
I .lfl harlaFp1a Z ..frTr-aI TDllv
man, who weighs over two hundred
pound. and the other i n sweet little
/ pink-eheeked, hright-eyed woman that
never has brought down the scales at
over one 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
a pain in the side. She turned pale,
and tried the top hook That hook
went clear to her shoulder. She looked
Mt herself in the glass 10 see if she had
fallen away much. Then she called in
her husband, who was IN an adjoining
room, wrestling witha number fifteen
collar, trying to make it lit a number
/ sixteen shirt He looked at his forlorn
looking little wife, and told her he never
saw woman that seemed to shrink SO.
He suggested n numbei of things that
could be put in to make the dress fit,
but she scorned any foreign interference.
After bothering her for little while he,
being statesman, saw where the trouble
was, and ordering the dress packed he
took it in n carriage to the house of the
lady to whom it belonged. There was a
scene also at that house. The goodly
proportional lady hadput on the wrong
dress and found that il would not go
around into about seven inches. She
felt that she was becoming too large for
any kind of use, and cdld her husband
who was trying to get number eight
foot into a seven boot. lie was joker,
too, and he had a good cal Of fun with
her, and then the other ashland arrived
with the right dress, and a exchange was
made, and when the riht women got
into the right dresses, and all the hooks
we're hooked, and the desses fitted like
the paper on the wall, two of the hand
soonest and happiest womn in Milwaukee
felt better than they did hour before,
and they went to the arty and had a
splendid time. But it ooked dark fo1
them up to about nine o'clock. Pcck's