The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-03-21
IN THE NEXT CENTURY.
The Oracle Tells Story Of Things
That Are to Come.


up and down impatiently. She is in
the dress of the period. A tail coat of
blue silk, such as negro minstrels wear
now, low-cut vest of delicate shade,
with diamond buttons; a frilled lace
shirt front, white stand-up collar
edged with gold braid. white tie with
flower sprigs all over it; elegant silk
knee breeches, silk stockings and
delicately-tinted patent leather shoes.
She wears rose-colored silk crush
hat, and she puts an eyeglass to her
eye as she looks up the broad stairs.
"John!"
"Yes, dear"
Aren't you ready YETI"
I'll be down in minute"
"Sainted Cecilia! How long 1t takes
half an hour already
"Only ten minutes"
A tall, fne-looking girl IN livery
comes in.
IF you please, ma'am, the motors at
the door"
John! John! are you not ready yet?''
please come and button the back Of
my coat"
"Holy Saint Annel Amt you anv
further along than that?'
1.-THE buttoning machine broke down,
and left me only half buttoned."
She turns to the girl in livery.
''Go up and button the idiot. Do
hurry up, John, we'll miss the first act. "
"What's the play, dear?"
Don't you read the papers2 Don't
.Othello?"
II didn't know. You know never
get time to read the papers. What with
going visiting and men calling, never
get time to do anything"
''Oh, for heavens sake! Do come
along. l want to hear the great scene
where Desdemona sauces her father"
Before the duke?''
Before the duchess. This is the new
version, tell you"
''Maria.'
What is it, now?"
did leave my handkerchief down
there?"
(which handkerchief?'
''The one with the Strawberries en-
broidered on it.
upon my word. You men don't
know where you put anything"
The husband comes downstairs. He
is dressed in silk waist, with ruffles
at the wrists and around the neck, di-
vided skirts of similar shade and slip
pers with buckles.
Great Cleopatra! John, you are not
going without your hate"
.sOf op,rSa 7 a,p ,-or,, e,,,o11
you know
mo, John, that bald head would dis
grace me-"
II can't help that 1t isn't good form
to wear your hat at such a fashionable
first night
John, you look positively indecent
without your hat. Go and put it on. :"
81 know Jones is not going to wear
his. His wife told him she didn't want
him to-"
Jones, my dear, has head of hair.
Go and put on your hat"
"Why didn't you tell me before? I
would have worn my other dress l
went and had my head manicured this
afternoon Just for this affair"
John, you go and put on your hat.
won't take you to the theater if you
don't. That's all there is about it,
II think it's real mean"
LET me look at you. Why, you don't
mean to say you did not get your
whiskers curled?"
my dear, I've had them in papers all
night and all morning. They won't curl
worth cent"
Il cantstand this much longer, John.
I'll have to dispense with your services
as husband"
II tell you, Maria, If you don't have
some more consideration for me I'll go
home to my father"
"Go and put on your hat"
The husband goes meekly upstairs
and comes down with hat with wav-
ing plumes.
rs that all right?"
''Oh. yes, you'll have to do"
They enter the family coach, a coupe
run by electricity in q storage battery.
A handsome woman in livery is seated
behind; she turns a crank and away
they go at fifty miles an hour.
my dear" says the husband, you'll
really have to get me new valet. This
fellow doesn't know how to take care
of my dresses"
You're always growing, John
Don't you know that we've got to
economize, anyway? My gold mine
doesn't pan out as well as expected,
and that wheat deal nearly bursted me.
Oh. by the way, l forgot to give your
Christmas present. Here IL Is. Put II
on your finger, outside of your glove.
want Jones to see it. His wife never
gives him anything"
II is . beautiful ring. set with half Q
hundred gems Of various kinda