The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-01

"rvo got four-nincty-nin granny,
Don't you think ! could do with that Il
I mako 10 mypeify
"um-.n. vetca.sctv ia w~srif thei
can spare. Tor l'd ll,o So 90 zoos well.
n1lv."
"Ill buy tt' stc, trrlorrow, 0rsnnv.
said Echa. cal ,-Cl sho woai 80 beg
story paper for q &c, cripiioa 90 the re-
f.lcndent rown ihas bad capiurcl the
prince. and IN lisAi loag little Della
saw herself at.ircd m piui, gown with
yellow roses. and everybody was csking
ner @ dance. hat vlilo tho music
throbhed and her ht,lo feet twitchcd
she refused them all. for there in n
corner stood tho prince in ghttering
splendor, "incognito, but looking ont Of
Larry's eyes.
Thero was but half day at the fac
tory the next dry, and Della went 70 buy
her ball gown. She hunted and searched
in dozens Of stores before she found
what she wanted in color. IL was cheap
and wide. so that she could get enough
10 make a double skirt to loop up with
yellow roses, and then there was another
long search for roses TO loop il up with
that were Of rich and deep enough
tint to satisfy the demands OF the gown
20 capture the prince. These cost 50
much that she could not buy gloves OF
clippers, il indeed she felt the need of
them, for Araminta apparently had not
worn any, as they had not been men
toned.
Larry called, and granny told him that
DAILY would be ready for the grand, etc,
on New Years eve, and he was obliged
10 go without having seen Della. She
was in such fever Of delight that she
was afraid he would see il, and that
would never do. Besides. she was sewing
ON her dress. Poor child She worked
hard all day and sewed ON that gown by
the light Of a little lamp. and the rosy
sunset clouds never looked lovelier TO
her than the deep pink folds Of her dress.
The waist did not 1t very well, but there
was great bunch of yellow roses on the
front. The skirt hing unequally, and
the gathers were fuller in the front than
back, but the overskirt was Topped in
two places with enormous sprays of roses
and foliage Her best white petticOat
had been starched as stiff as it would hold
by granny. and the whole outfit lay
spread on Delia's bed-a thing Of ravish-
ing beauty TO her and granny's eyes.
Della could scarcely eat or sleep dur
ing that last week, and now tho eventful
night had come. The alley was ablaze
with lights. and these fell on the white
surface Of the softly falling snow with q
grand effect. Men hustled about, and
from her window Della could SEQ the
brilliant hall, and then she put on her
FIRST ball gown. The light brought out
the color of the roses in full effect against
the deepened pink of the tarlatan, but
Delia's plump white neck and arms, her
glowing eyes, and the roseleaf color com
ing and going on her cheeks, and the
glints Of gold in the curling hair made
one forget the rest. She had no gloves,
and she wore her best buttoned boots.
but they looked coarse to dance in. Still
she did not know it.
She was ready, with granny's shawl
to throw around her, when Larry made
his appearance. He had been shaved and
had his brown mustache curled and his
hair plastered down TO his eyebrows in
two stiff scallops. He had a blue neck
tie and a diamond pin that must have
cost at least $1.25 in it. His vest was
black, his coat gray and his pants brown,