The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-04
A Competent Customer.

"Is the gentleman who knows every-
thing, in?' stammered a vision of
golden hair and sea blue eyes, as size
stood timidly beside the managing
editors desk yesterday afternoon.
Everything about what9" asked the
editor, clawing around under his desk
for his shoes and trying to hide his
stocking feet under him. "Upon
which particular branch do you seek
informationr
81 don't know exactly what to do"
pointed the strawberry lips. "Pa says
and l don't know how to make it up.
| thought the gentleman who answers
questions could tell me-" 5.f
"H'm!" muttered the managing
editor, ale has gone up in Maine TO
find out why geese always walk in sin.
gle file. An Anxious Inquirer wants
to know. What kind of dress had
you thought ofgettingw
"That's what l want to know.
want something that will look we'll with
terra Gotta gloves"
eyes, yes" murmured the editor.
"Then you should get one of these
green things with beads that turn all
kinds of colors and some fringe and
fixings of that kind"
"Wouid you nave it cut princess or
wear it with polonaise ?' she inquired,
LOOKING at him searchingly.
"You-you might have it princess
around tho nnni, a..d sow vr pvIuualses
at the bottom," suggested the editor.
"Tha's going to be very fashionable,
and couple of hip pockets would set
it off royalty"
81 don't know" murmured the
beauty. 81 haven't seen anything of
that style. Do you know whether
paniers are worn bouffant this season,
Or whether the skirt is tight?"
"Oh, certainly" replied the editor.
'They arc made with all the bouffants
you can get on'em. Some have even
sixteen button boufIaats, and there was
lady in here yesterday who had a
panier that came clean up to her neck.
should have it pretty boufIant if it
was my dress"
"Wcll," stammered the blusbing
"would you box plate the skirt
,r shirr it?"
"Shirr it, by all mcans?" exclaimed
hn n1itar USh;-.- - -.--.-..s -..,--.-...,
iown, and fasten it with those loops of
black tape"
"You mean frogs?" asked the beauty.
"No, no. These big loops that slip
'ver two buttons. That set of the
'hirrs and gives sort of tout TO the
and the edition IeAood back
md smiled superior.
"Don't you think revers of higher
hadc would look pretty?" she inquir.
ID.
"They'll do TO fix upon the back, but
wouldn't put 'en on the 'front.'" all
wcred the editor sagely. "Revers are
'ery well to trim a hat with, but they
lon't set of n dress front"
GLOW would you like the corsage!'
81 would not have any at all. You
would look much better without one."
"Sir!" she exclaimed, rising.
"Oh. if you insist, you might have
mall one, certainly not over three
nches long, for short dresses are all the
tylo now."
"You-you don't seem to UNDER
she commenced.
"Oh, don't II" he retorted. "Thafs
What Pm here for. l think there is
'othing so lamentable as to see young
ady dragging her corsage through the
mud and dust. Still, if you want one,
on should have il SO you:can take 1t
fl when You go on the street, and only
year it at home. They are hard to
landle, and not one woman in hun.
lred can kick her corsage gracefully.
r-I am very much obliged to you"
he murmured. "You are very good,
IN sure"
"Don't mention it," replied the
ditor, politely, ~ think when you get
shirred and revered and polonaised
nd princessed you win like 1t very
much. You might get sash and some
ig buttons TO put on behind, or If you
Ike another style better, you might
rim the whole front with bouffants aud
year the panier for hat" .-
"Oh, thank you sir" exclaimed the
lushing bud, as she scuttled down
tairs. ....., arl sst
"Swipes !" roared the managing ed
or with complacent smile and glance
{ f.approval at himself in the glass,
Swipes. you may tell the foreman to
end me'a proof of the Fashion Notes
S soon as they come in. 1 have OBJ
erved that great many errors have
rcpt in lately."-[Brooklyn Eagle.
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