The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-27
TRYING ON A DRESS.


-YOHteTS Statesman.
TRYING ON A DRESS.
"Thcre, =" said Miss Piping. the dress
maker, &" let me keteh it up little on
this side" Then fishing a pin out of
her mouth and sticking it into the cloth,
which she patted gently, as though
she were fashioning a biscuit, she con-
tinued:
There, now, that 3 Jest right-wait
minute pulling out a basting
thread there! Now look in the
glass, Mrs. HomespUn, and see how
you like it. 1 want you to tell me Jest
what you think. 4 think it fits you
splendid. -
Don't you think suggested Mrs.
Homespun, after going through a series
of twists and turns which would cause
n circus contortionist to grow green
with envy; don't you think the sleeves
@ are a little too tight?'
Not a particle" replied the dress
maker, with emphasis; ''yOu' q Oughter
seen Mrs. Showbody's sleeves, if you
think them tight
. Mrs. Showbody and I are different
persons" said Mrs. Homespun, still
looking at her sleeves. Il suppose she
doesn't care how tight they are 5 long
comfortable; and with my little arms,
I'd look nice, wouldn't /, with tight
.sleeves?"
''Oh, l can let them out, if you insist
upon it, said Miss Piping; ''but don't
think they are a bit too tight. What do
YOU think, Mary?" appealing to Mrs.
Homespun's niece.
s If anything, replied Mary, Il don't
think they are tight enough. - 90 $50
Il = II IL
Mary said Mrs. Homespun, raising
heRforetnger and dropping it into the
palm of the other hand to add force to
her remarks;- ." it viii do very well for
you to talk; you're young; but for an
old woman like me to try to make my
~ self like girl, it's perfectly ridiculous.
Is / amt a-going to make a ninny of my
self at my time of life. Anybody that
wants to Jest because it's Fashionable
can do so for all me; but l hope I've
got some sense left. What do you think
of them, Mrs. BrownP'
q l think they're just lovely" replied
Mrs Brown ''not a bit too tight. They
look so to you, Nancy, because you've
been wearing that bOmbazine you've
had SO long; but you'll get used to
them. Why, look at MINER
u know, Hannah; YOU always was a
stylish body. But i believe pd fly in
sleeves that / couldn't move my arms
in. DO you really think blook like n
fool in them? Come, tell me. 1 don t
want to be n laughing stock"
"eeaa The trio assured her that they
couldn't see anything -oHt-of the way;
that they were Just right, and they
never saw her Hook so well in anything
she ever had on.
Mrs. Homespun looked at the sleeves
with scowled' brOws, and finally said:
well" which, being interpreted
meant that she was not convinced, but
would let the sleeves pass for the pres
ent.
Is Don't You think it sticks out too
much bChind?h was her next criticism,
after nearly twisting her head off try
ing to look at her back.
why, auntn' exclaimed her niece.
"There! interrupted Mrs. Home
spun, II know what you're going to
say. But you don't get any hustle on
TO me don't want to look deformed.
When I see folks sticking out beh ind so
] wonder how they'd feel if they was
made 500
ooh, but that isn't too much,' said
Miss Piping, passing her hand down
the bacB~breadth. Il should have made
il different, only YOU said YOU didn' t
want il too full in the back. But it
would set so much better, now, if you' d
let nc sew in piece of wigan. Let
me chow YOU Aud Miss Piping took
49, n newspaper, and, tumbling it up in her
hands, inserted it beneath Mrs. Home
Spun'S overskirt. There! how much
E better that looksn' turning to Mrs.
Brown and Mary for their acquiescence.
oh, ever so much better, said Mrs
Brown.
WHY, Ruutie. YOU don't know how
"a ut
Take it out.' commanded Mrs.
Homespun. ut S ho.Tid.'
Miss Piping removed the offending
literature.
-" But you must have something in
-sr, she persisted; ''when the stiffening
gets cut of the goods, it will lie 5 fiat :
n pancake. Let me tack a piece of
wigan in it,snlf You don't like it, I'll
takesit right oot'
Not so much as THAR exclaimed
Mrs. Homespun. Not more'n half of
"Oh, dear, the whole of it won't be
too mueh.n
= tell YOU won't have so much; 1
should never be happy in it.
"Weu, then, said Miss Piping.
smiling; I'm tear it in halves"
After lacking and pinning and pulling
and pattng, the thing is again ready
That's better, SAYS the dressmaker.
a''a'.. Much better, " SAYS Mrs. Brown.
Mary again thinks her aunt never
looked 50 we'll in her life.
.s Il don't know, says Mrs Homespun.
hesitaungly. " Don't you think its too
muchg
Not bit. is the woman reply.
Well. don't know replied Mrs.
Homespun. adding, after a pause. ..TII
keep the rest, 50 if tights too Tat. Won
SNOW Then She takes another LOOK
.ssyat the background. .tMary,' She SAYS,
4 ~ wonder how one of them long busttes
Az Would-look- one of those like YOURS.
IS eall in a 3iunch-aIf Ididn' think hwould
make me look ike a fool, perhaps 1
&. might git one. -
u q sfLet me hitch il up. little here. .
said tics dressmal1er. ?. There, that's
.iE now yoU want TO have a bow
there"
mo. | won't have a bow. l hate