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care you satisfed?" asked the
wife, wishing him to commit him
selfbefore she divulged the whole ORR
gin of the suit
"Of course !" cried Alex. warmly.
Satisfied? Why, its one of Acker-
mans best, that's what it is. See
the way it fits.
When he had raved for ten min
utes Minnie confessed the history of
the suit. $50 you see, after al" =" she
said at last, 1--WE woman do know
something"
Mr.. Blossom looked at the coat
more critically, trying to find blem-
ish but he could not.
care you still satisfied ?" asked
Minnie. He had to admit that he
was.
"Now, how much do you suppose
it cost ?" Mr.. Blossom couldn't tell.
"Now tailor" he began.
"Tailor n cried Minnie. "You
mean robber. 1 counted on just
$40, and out of that l have this suit,
and this dress of mine. You would
have paid S75 for the suit alone. To-
morrow I shall pay up, and 1 warn
you that every cent l have left out
of $40 l shall spend on candy, every
single cent. For Minnie had the
woman's love of extravaganza, after
all.
Not a gentleman at the club was
better dressed than her husband.
They were both in raptures. Alec.
especially, when he had convinced
himself that his suit did not pro-
claim to the world the disgraceful
truth that it had. been constructed
by a dressmaker.
The next evening, when Mr.. Bios
som came home and instituted the
search for Minnie, she did not leap
out at him from her old hidingplace.
She was in her room and crying.
"What's the matter ?" asked Alec.
She did not reply at first, and still
kept her head turned from him, but
when he had been wrought up to
proper state of sympathy and alarm
she cried a little more bitterly than
before, and quite unconsciously re-
laxed her grasp on a piece ofcrump-
led paper. Alexander OWNED that
this dingy scrap was the source of
her trouble, and picked it up. 1t
contained atrocious writing execut-
ed in red ink, and looked like the
work of dynamiter. But it was
was not SO brief. 1t began: "AIrs.
Blossom to Mrs. burden, mans
Dress Suite" and after eighteen or
twenty lines of trimmings, Innings,
buttons, extra cloth, making, &C.,
eliminated in "totle S39." Under
this "totle" Minnie had written in
trembling figures what she owed the
tailor, $33, and then she had made
a "totle" of her own. This dress suit
had cost her $72.
"You'll hate me-" she sobbed ;
you'll think you've married a sim
pleton."
Alexander was not distinguished
for keen insight into human ma
ture, but with so beautiful and APP
pealing a creature as Minnie in tears
who would not know the proper
chord ?
"Simpletonl" he cried and mis-
trusting the power of words alone,
he seized her by the waist, "see
jump" and gleefully whisked her
about the room, $50 you want a
compliment ON your financiering :?
You shall have it. You have got a
thing worth SIS for $72; made So
by simply turning over your some
what dimpled hand. Simpleton,
forsooth You are a money grub
ber Take me to the theatre-capi-
tai land 1 will give the supper az
terward. Eh? What do you think
of that ?"
When the story was related to
Minnie's father, he-knowing how
to strike the right chord
Immediately presented her with IL
large check as a guarantee that her
first charming futile efforts at econ
omy were properly appreciated
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