Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-19
THE NEW SUIT.

Now" said Mrs. Mills, as she took
her semi-annual dividend from the en-
velope-" now / will have a spring suit;
it's high time, too, and | mean to have
it made by Furbelow. Once in my life
want dress that will fit like a glove
and look stylish. I'm dead tired of be-
ing dowdy. and running about in ready
made gowns that hang on me like bag,
and ravel apart if one looks at them.
think will have a gray Henrietta-cloth
and gray velvet. | saw one at an opening
that was too lovely for anything-but a
wedding. I'm so sick of black cashmere
and black silk; it seems to me I've never
worn anything else. To be sure, black
is more economical; your next neighbor
can't be certain whether you had your
black gown this spring or last, and it's
becoming and lady-like. | shouldn't
care to have Mrs. Brown say, There
goes Mrs. Mills in her everlasting gray
gown; when shall we see the last of it,
Perhaps | should get to be known as the
woman in gray; and then gray spots so
easily, and benzine isn't all that fancy
painted it. To be sure. it would dye
and shrink. Brown is durable color,
and not so pretentious. / could never
wear gray gown except on fete days
still that gray gown has haunted my
Imagination; it's like poem, like the
first sight of the silver catkins, the first
sound of the robin. However, I'll go in
to town, and get patterns, and see Furbe-
low
So Mrs. Mills went into town, and OBJ
tanned patterns at the best shop; patterns
of nf 20 III 9th Of
mere, of armure, of bourette, of bison
cloth and what not; patterns of gray, of
London smoke, of ashes of roses, OF clio
yer red. Then she proceeded to Furbe-
lows, and looked at fashion plates, and
asked questions. ''Here's gray we have
just finished for Mrs. Hyson, of Mount
Vernon street; it's thought to be very
chic, " said the assistant "Our price for
making is forty five dollars only Mrs
Mills sighed. 1t was plain she could not
have a gown made by Furbelow, fit her
never so wisely. Her check was but for
fifty dollars. When she reached home
with her patterns, in rather pleasant
frame of mind-for even the selection of
patterns is a kind of shopping which ex-
hilarates the feminine heart, more or less
she found Mrs. Armstrong waiting for
her.
sYou see,n explained Mrs. Armstrong,
1--WE are getting up testimonial for dear
Mr.. Glucose thirtieth birthday-and
we knew you would wish to add some
thing; all of our be t people have given
Miss Clapp gave fifty dollars; nobody
has given less than five except old Mrs.
Blunt, and you know how stingy she is.
She gave dollar =
Mrs. Mills gave five dollars. ssShe
couldn't do less, said Mrs. Armstrong
afterward. 81 was determined she should
not get off with dollar
That rather cuts into my spring suit, !"
said she; s'but can have it made with
out the velvet. / suppose.
She returned to her patterns next day,
and meditated upon them; it was so
hard to decide. II gray should b. open
to become her Brown might look old
womanish. Black was the safer, of
course. She consulted with her friends
and with several of her feminine relatives.
She made up her mind in favor of gray
on Monday, and chose brown on Tues
day. She found her attention wander
in church from the preachers text to the
parishioners' toilets. The woman who
hesitates IS lost, we are told, and Mrs.
Mills was still debating the subject
when letter arrived from her dearest
friend.
You win be glaslgo hear she wrote. chat
my wedding day IS Set for the 18th You
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