Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-05

| tapie at tIe neau OF WMcn SAT Vnelr
hostess.
"Ladiesw said Miss Cloots (who real
~ was remarkable wOman-the more
| reflect upon her the more / am i'm
pressed by this fact)," 81 have asked
You here to-day to discuss a very i'm
portant matter-very important to us.
Possibly you may have seen this para
graph in the newspaper" and she hand
ed rocnd the cutting which she had
taken from Genevieve's paper.
The II old maids read it and did
not seem to see much in it. Miss
Cloot's keen intuition perceived this.
II did not expect you to. We can't
all be of brilliant intellect, of course, !"
she said. "Pray don't think / blame
you for any deficiencies in that respect;
we none of us can radically alter the
intelligence-or want of (which has
been vouchsafed to u.s."
| "But this is hoax, of course, Cell
na?n said Miss Wheevyl. "Quite alb
surd and impossiblew
"Notin the least ~ replied Miss Cloot,
emphatically. "Neither absurd nor
impossible That's where you show
your ignorance, Jane. Pray under
stand, my friends, that L am not pro-
posing that you should all rush out to
that college in New York, (although
heaven knows you all need it's assist
ance); no, you will do better by remain
ing where you are. Now, concerning
this college. l know what you are 60
ing to say, 1T doesn't eXisti' Very
well what | have to say is, if it doesn't
exist, why"
AT this moment, unfortunately, the
door of the council chamber was sud-
denly shut and we heard no more.
"MOther ~ said Genevieve a week or
so after, "there's whole page of adj
vertisement of that College of Beauty
in New York Do listen: Ladies de-
sirous of enrolling themselves as stu
dents at the College of Beauty are re-
quested to send in their names at once
to the secretaries, Nine. Brown. The
first hundred ladies will be received at
the following reduced fees Facial
Beauty Curriculum Including Eye En-
larging, Gaze Softening, Dimple, Ethe-
real Expression, Piquancy and other
classes), 100 dolls. per term of IL months.
\ The system having now been
perfected and exclusively tested, testi-
monials from Ladies Well Known in
Society, who have been rescued from
various degrees of LONELINESS and devel-
oped into beauties of the first water, will
be sent to all applicants. The leading
transatlantic steamship companies have
made special arrangements for the con-
veyance of parties of ladies proceeding
to the College of Beauty, New York;
"Of course it can't be true, can it,
mother" said Genevieve.
ooh, dear, no, my love-" said mother.
''But we will go and have a look at
New York, won't WEI"
"Yes, | think we may as Wello
The booming of the College of Beauty
reechoed deafeningly from end to end
of the London press. The subject was
everything. 1t was the universal topic.
Some weeks after this Jenkinson
looked up Wif1ier in the evening and
threw himself down in chair with an
exclamation of disgust.
Hanged if they haven't gone ~ he
grunted.
Gone? Who?' said Wiffler passing
the tobacco jar.
"Why, Mrs. Jenkinson and Gene
We've have gone to New York-for a
change, they said but they can't hood
wink me. They've gone to that College
of Beauty-that's where they've gone
Nice state of things for me! Left all
alone, as if l didn't happen to have
such articles as wife and daughter.
Where's your wife? Theater-opera? ?"
"Not a bit of it J" replied Wiffier
gloomily. "Gone to New York, my
friend and now | see why they We're
so mad to go that way, although Matil-
da hates the sea and always gets fright
fully i'll. Now l see ~
AT that moment Bradbury burst in
mechanically, the image Of despair.
Ill Il L
two, "what's wrong with you?"
bury. "Nice game for a mans wife
and three daughters and niece to go off
all at once to-"
"New York ?" cried Wiffier and Jen-
kinson, in a breath.
"Ah that's the very place !" shrjeked
Bradbury. "And I'll tell you what
I've my suspicious that"
"Your suspicious are well founded"
said Jenkinson, in hollow voice.
''That was their object"
Then those three miserable men went
off to the club; and the hubbub as they
entered the smokeroom told them that
something was amiss. Frodwell was
standing on the hearthrug declaiming
about the right place for wife being
by husbands side, instead of frivoling
off to crack-brained colleges holding
out all manner of insane and imprac-
ticable-
About 20 other clubbites stood round
and grunted approval.
| Anger and gloom were the dominant
principles of that smokeroom.
"Your wife gone over? Oh, no, of
course, you haven't got wife," said
Jenl1inson to young Flabtree.
mo; and what's more, Pm not like
ly to have one now. My best girls gone
over to New York-for three years, she
thinks. Hanged if / know how she
can be improved by that fool of a col
lege, for that's where she's off to, you
bet! Her fringe keeps frizzy in wet
weather, and she has little dimple
each side of her nose; so what more can
she want?'
"All my best girls have gomez said
young Grownder, sinking into a settee
and covering his face with his hands.
1t was the same sad story at every
club you entered; bereaved married men
and deserted bachelors stood mopingly
on the hearthrugs or Topped in limp
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