Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

he was an old and dear friend, ANA ons
whom DIR. Kendall was specially desir-
Gus to honor In the morning her hus-
band said to Helen:
Don't you think, dear, you had better
put on your pretty dress this morning
that one with the roses all over it,
mean-the one you look so beautiful in.
you know?'
She put it on, feeling half vexed and
half amused, but the visitor was wholly
charmed, and was never tired of telling
his friends afterwards what lovely wom-
an Mrs. Kendall was, and in what ex-
qulslte taste she dressed, hearing which
IN roundabout way, she was fain to
confess that the wrapper probably did
it all.
Mother said Phil, as he came in
one day before supper, George Benson
and Harry White are coming over this
evening"
care they? All right l shall be
glad to see them"
Phil wriggled about, and twisted him
sell into all sorts of shapes on the arms
and posts Of his mothers chair, until
she was convinced he had something
on his mind.
Can do any thing to help entertain
them? | can set out little spread of
apples and nuts and cookies, if YOU
would like. VIII that do?"
at isn't that" Phil burst out. cts
-its-say, mother, won't you wear your
rosy dress this EVENING""
EENhvy
for mornings. 1t will hardly do for an
evening"
"Oh, yes, it will! The boys won't
know the difference"
''But why would you like me to wear
it?'
Because, was over to George BEN
sons yesterday, and his mothers new
dress was on the sofa, and it was all
bows and lace and filings, and it was
green or blue or some color-I don't
know which; and George said wasn't it
the prettiest dress ever | saw, and | said
no, my mother had one ever so much
prettier; and he said he didn't believe it,
and said for him to come over and see
1t himself-so won't you please wear it
tonight, mOther?"
Here was a situation, but Helen was
equal to it. Her boy should not be put
to shame, and she promised him to
wear the wrapper. Attired in it. with
an extra bow or two pinned on. she did
the honors for the admiring guests, and
nobody but herself knew her secret
terror lest some of the session, or of
the sessions wives, should drop in and
find her triclled out in such unseemlv
hnery. But she had her reward.
George Benson was heard to declare
that the rosy dress was "a sumner"
and Phil was triumphant.
This incident gave her food for
farther thought, and resulted in the
purchase of deep ruby wool, which
she had made up as tastefullv as
possible for home afternoons and even
ings. The boys often importune her to
wear it to church or down town, but
here she draws the line and stands
firm. Her husband declares that she
has grown ten years younger since her
marriage, and she retorts that, if she is
made to dress like a girl of twenty, she
must be expected to act like one; but
that she will keep her gayety and
giddiness for the home circle, and not
eXpend it on the parish.
The rosy wrapper, like other mum
dane things, began to show signs of
wear, and Helen was anxiously con-
irving how she could renovate it.
when, upon the first anniversary of her
wedding day a package was put into
her hands containing material for an
other equally beautiful, and attached
to it was a card bearing the inscrip-
ton: ITO mother, from her boys. =
Mary H. Smith. in The Interior.