The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-04-20
IN THE NEXT CENTURY.
The Oracle Tells q Story Of Things
That Arc to Como.

The Oracle. who had been sitting
silent, not needing the conversation
that went on, suddenly broke out.
1t is the year 1945. The scene is IN
elegant mansion on Pacific Heights.
lady is in the wide open hall, walking
up and down impatiently. She is in
the dress of the period. tail coat Of
blue silk, such as negro Ministries wear
now, q low-cut vest of delicate shade,
with diamond buttons; a frilled lace
shirt front, n white stand-up collar
edged with gold braid, q 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 eycglass to her
eye as she looks up tho broad stairs.
''Joln!"
"Yes, dear"
"Aren't you ready YETI"
IN be down in a minute"
"Sainted Cecilia! How long it takes
YOU men to dress. I've been waiting
half an hour already.
"Only ten rninutes."
A tall, fne-lool1ins girl IN livery
comes in.
''If you please, ma'am, the motors at
the door,"
''John! John! are you not ready YETI"
.sPlease como and button the back of
my coat
'Holy Saint Anne! Amt you any
| 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. y
| "What's the play, dear?''
| Don't you read the papers? Don't
you know it's the new version OF
| 'Othello?'"
| ~ a;1p,+ Lno>v vo,, l.Do>v 7 never
get time to read the papers. What with
| going visiting and men calling, 1 never
get time to do anything."
| .'Oh, for heavens salSel Do como
along. I want to hear the great scene
! where Desdclnona sauces her father
before the dulke?'
"Bcfore the duchess This is the new
| version, tell YOU"
| "Maria!''
'.What is 1T, now?"
Ibid leave my handkerchief dow1
there2'
(which handkerchief
1.-THE ono with tho Strawberries EN-
broidered on It,"
| tUpon my word! You men don
know where you put anything."
The husband comes downstairs. II
is dressed in a silk waist, with rufIlc
at the wrists and around tho neck. di
vided skirts of a similar shade and slip
| pcrs with buckles.
"Great Cleopatra! John..yo arc no
going without your hat?''
"Of course am. Its very swell
you know"
..No, John, that bald head would dis
grace me-"
81 can't help that. It isn't good for1
to wear your hat at such a fashionabl
first night"
John, you look positively fndecen
without your hat. Go and put 1T on.
II know Jones is not going to vea
his. His wife told him she didn't wal
him to-"
.'Jones, my dear, has a head of hal
Go and put on your hat"
''Why didn't you tell me before?
| would have worn my other dress.
went and had my head manicured tn
afternoon just for this affair"
''John, you go and put on your hat.
won't take you to the theater if yc
\ don't. That's all there is about it."
II think it's real mean"
''Let mo look at you. Why, you don
neon to say you did not get yo'
vvhislsers curled?''
.sN1y dear, I've had them in papers q
night and all morning. They won't GU
worth a cent"
Il can't stand this much longer, job
I'll have to dispense with your servic
as q husband"
: II tell you, Maria, if you don't ha
some more consideration for me I'll [
homo to my father"
!. ''Go and put on your hat
a The husband goes mcekly upstai
: and comes down with q hat with wa
i ing plumes.
: us that all right?''
4 ..Oh, yes, you'll have to do"
= They enter the family coach, con-
run by electricity in a storage batter
l.. A handsome woman in livery is seat
behind; she turns a crank and aw
= they go at fifty miles IN hour
my DEAR" says the husband. you
really have to get me a new valet. II
fellow doesn't know how to take ca
of my dresses"
you're always growing. job
Don't you know that we've got
. economic, anyway? My gold mi
e doesn't pan out as we'll as I expecte
= aud that wheat deal nearly bursted n
Oh, by the way, 1 forgot to give 20
- Christmas present. Here it is. Put
on your finger, outside of your glove.
want Jones to sss it. His wife neS
gives him anythiz.."
a 1t is a beautiful ring, set with hall
<~f- ,.;A 1kin62.