Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-04-12
fairer woman. and his heart knev !.

= ssohOu JOu last u1Qn1
whether you intended to 20 to Ladv
Burnham's breakfast at that rural Wills
Of theirs. or course if YOU 90 I will
accompany you, but otherwise I have
some business l should like to attend
to on Thursday"
IL can CO." answered Selma 81
have nothing to wear"
Nothing to wearp"
Nothing on earth"
now can you say SOP"
~ did think of ordering a suitable
toilette Tor it, and was at Damereau' $
about it yesterday. But after what YOU
sa1d last night
Selma stopped, pouted and looked
half inclined to cry.
my dear, what do you mean? what
did say? Only that you seemed to
me never to appear in the same dress,
whether at home or out; and begged
you to remember that our income was
limited. You know, though it is NOM
inaily two thousand year. out of
You said 1 changed my dresses four
times day, Oscar" she interrupted,
cutting short his argument.
swell. Don't you?"
''But everybody else does. Some
five times. You would not like me to
come down in the morning and 60 to
bed at night in the same dress, woul
your"
Il suppose not. It's of no use ask
ing me about dress, Selma. 1 scarcely
know one gown from another. But it
does strike mo that you have a mo.
extraordinary number of new things.
Go out or come in when l will, there's
sure to be the milliners porter and
basket at the door,
jectP'
lyon never do look an object"
"Qf course don't. | guard again
It, Ia give the world to go to this
fete ut the Burnham's. Every soul will
be there, but me-
'And why not yous if your heart
so set upon itP I think all such affairs
a stupid bore; but that's nothing"
Would you wish me to go there in a
petticoatp"
mo. suppose not. tell you 4
am no judge of ladies' dress. 1 don't
think should know a petticoat from a
gown. Those are gowns, are they not,
hanging in rows round the walls in the
rooms above, and covered up with
sheets and table-clothsp"
''Sheets and table-cloths! Oscar!"
"My dear, they look like !t.''
"Weu-N they are gowns, there's
not one can wear"
They are all new recently" said
1 Mr.; D 9aya whats the matter
sisted his wife.
at can't be the color. For Tn sure
there's gown of every shade of every
color under the sun. What is itp''
"What is it?' repeated Mrs. Dali
rymple. in quite a contcmptuous tone,
for she had no patience with such ic-
noranee; You ought to know what
it Is"
"My dear, I really don't II you
wish me to know, you must tell me-
Il haze woraa them once" angrily
answered Mrs. Dalrymple. 'And
some twice, and some three times.
And one-Oscar." she broke off, ..yol
remember that lovely one. q SLY blue
shot with white, a dfspo$,tion?"
What is "a dispositionP' int
rupted he.
"O-a silk, flounoed, and the flounces
have some design upon them, en-
bossed, or raised, sometimes of diff
ferent color. That one dress I have
worn five times. have, Oscar. Five
tin.es''
II wear my coats fifty times five,"
said Mr. Dalrymple.
The idea of my being seen at Lady
Burnham s in a dress I have worn be-
tore!' uttered Selma, passing by his
remark with the scorn it deserved.
mo! I'd rather 60 in a petticoat, of
the two evils, and hide my head forev-
er afterward."
Mr.. Dalrymple was puzzled. "Why
could you not be seen there, or any
where else. in dress you have worn
beforep''
"Why couldn't I!' exclaimed Mrs.
Dalrymple, In tone of suppressed ex-
asperation,
"Solina, only ask to know"
Because nobody else ever does"
"Then what becomes of all the new
gownsP" inquired the wondering man.
For goodness sake don't keep O
calling them gowns
dresses, then. What becomes of
themp'
''Oh-they do for the country. And
under-robes, glace slips and that, we
can wear again here, ever so many
times, because they are not seen, only
the color show ing through; or the lit.
tie piece in front, if the upper dress is
left flying. and that can be altered to
look different by means of trimming"
She might as we'll have talked to him
in Madamc's French, which was a
sealed language to Oscar Da.rymple,
for all the sense he could make of the
speech. He looked perplexed, And
she cross.
''Do you not understand mep"
''That do not, Selma"
sit is not to be expected. Ahusband
who can, and docs push his nose into
his wife's toilette. is only fit for man.
milliner: am not saying this at you,
Oscar; am saying you don't. We
never worry our heads to interfere be-
tween you and your tailors, and pry
into the shape and make of your waist
coats and buttons and thin gs, and we
do not expect to have it done by u.s."
''Selina, let your grievance come to
an onH do nat 1il-n to boar