The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-01
Tea Table EtiQU8ft6.
Oriental Parties Are All the Go in New York-Story OF
DoIIy's Picture Hat.
DoIIy's Picture Hat

fact that during the holiday shoppin
the average woman becomes frightfully
nervous. Consequently the polite floor
walker is quite accustomed 10 speaking
to women who are in tears, ana nine
times out Of ten can guess the reason OF
their grief. y specially civil chap saw
a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, retinedlookins
woman crying bitterly. He asked if she
were i'll and if he should get her a glass
of water. No, nothing was the matter
VITA her so far ae illness was concerned
Had she lost her purse? 1t was safe u.
the shopping bag. Had she lost her
way! No, she lived in the city and
knew her way about Had sh
friends or children wandered from her?
No. had zone out alone.
At last. suddenly inspired. he asked,
"Haye YOU lost your memorandum
book? She looked up in his face and
answered, NO. I've got it; but | can't
make out what one word of it means.
And eventually she cried 50 long ana
so hard that she had an attack Of hyS-
terra. and a doctor had to be called III
and a carriage got, and her loss Of mem
DRY cost her husband $50. The moral
is. Write out your memorandum list -
you VIII know what it means" y very
sensible Judge has decided that the prop
rietor of a theater will have to pay 70
a frock torn by Il nail on the seat engag-
ed; for the performance. Now comes
the opportunity Of the dDWntrOdden
worm. How about the hats crushed by
men going out between the acts: How
about the cloaks injured When one IS IN
duced to check thcm? How about the
backs Of b0diccS stained by the accG-
INFLATED dust and grease on the nasty
plush upholsttry? Will the manag have
to pay for these? Men are always woE-
dering why the women won't leave their
hats and cloaks i'll her dressing room
| will tell % why. Because nobody
likes to have the maids in charge trying
them on or holding them in their hands
and criticizing them. No woman who
wears good clothes likes to know that
her cloak is at the bottom of q heap of
cl0aks poked into Il cubhy hole. and that
is about the way that things are cared
for when they are checked. The woman
Who has the wisdom of the serpent keeps
Il very Ordinady cloak for thcatcr wear
and swaths her head in an enormous lace
scarf. The scarf can be wrapped in the
cloak and pat under the seat. and the
gentleman behind can put his feet on it
or even poke a hole iii it with his UNI
hrelIa, and there will be no great grief.
But to see an ermine-lined. ace-trimmel
cloak and a beautiful chapcan receive
such treatment is enough to bring tears
to the eyes of q rhinoceros, an anima
which is said not to weep easily.
FUNNY THINGS Bah SEES.
Personally 1 glory in a warm cloak of
Irish frieze and Il lace scarf four yards
long, which are my standh., $. while the
man who o~ftenest is my escort invariably
Won. to tho tha9tpr Il hnt which in thA
order of service is known as No. ). l
must confess that the hat is getting to
look q little as if it were time for it t.
sink into %innocuous desuetude. 1t has
got to be one of the funny things, and
there are so many funny things.
Did you ever see a little dog in a Ham
let cloak and Il three-cornered hat?
That's funny.
Did you ever see a kitten in Il long
white dress, with Il pink mob cap:
That's funny.
Dld you ever see an old woman with
bleached hair wearing a sailor hat:
That's funny.
Did You ever see an old man dressed
Ike Il young dude? That's funny.
Did YOU ever notice how a man can
concentrate all the soul he possesses
in his athletic get up? That's funny.
Did YOU ever see a woman who is lib
eral in her use of powder and rouge and
who believes nobody notices it? That's
funny.
Did YOU ever see a man who believed
that he could deceive Il woman? That's
funny. but it is q lot funnier to see how
a woman Goes deceive a man, especially
when she does it for his own good. By
the by, it's funny weather we are hay-
ing, isn't it? Fun's Il good thing. and You
can seldom have toa much. provided it is
innocent fun. But the fun that hurts
oh. that ceases to be fun and becomes
malice, and against the name of every
malicious person there is a black mar
in the book of individuals owned by
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