The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-09
AROUND THE TEA TABLE

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Chicago Daily News: HoweiH Van
Rensselaer, Gibbon wore pale, worried
look and his shoulders dropped discon-
solately. 81 can't decide" he said
sharply, between this and that" FUN
bling in his vest pocket.
Few people can In this l!fe." said
the girl In the frilly waist, with an evil
dent and amiable desire TO be agree
able. II was lost on Howell. He With
drew his hand from the pocket and dis
closed-samples.
One was blue serge, the other tan
covert. "Wh!ch?" he asked tersely.
The girl leaned back comfortably and
regarded him. THAT depends" She
said thouGhtful!y1 "Arc you going TO
make II up for a tea gown or a recep-
ton dress?"
Mr.. Glbbon restored the samples TO
his pocket and his mobile features ex-
pressed several shades OF disgust. II
thought you might help" he said with
erlnSly. Girls don't Know anything
about the bother OF clothes"
Fire flew to the eyes OF his hostess,
"Oh. no." she said. In swec. tones.
'They don't worry about them at all.
do they7 There are only two excuses
for girl not being driven raving in,
sane twenty times year In regard to
her warGrobe-one Is that she Is pau
per and the other that che Is dead, I
am neither and that Is why ! stood to-
day for solid hour and quarter on a
wood pedestal at my talior's, being
twisted around like one OF these wire
dummies. Galatea was not In It. There
was Il woman kneel!ng on the floor and
pinnlng UP the hem OF my skirt / sup
pose II Injured her dignity 10 llneel ut
another womaR's feet, for ! learned
from her II was hard TO get my skirt
even because was so, one-slded. There
was another assistant fussiny with the
jacket and jabblns pins Into me with
the most cheerful, absorbed devotion
10 her work have ever encountered.
Each time I ghr!ekcd happy little
smile III her face. The tailor himself
surveyed the scene and made remarks.
II was hard. he said, very hard, TO get
q good 1T when people were insane
enough 10 buy cloth that was bound to
sag and when they had one hip higher
than the other and wouldn't have n silk
l!nIng-bought OF him-uId refused his
suggestions as 10 cut, and who aD.
horred haircloth and who were always
in hurry, anyhow. Did ! think q
tailor gown was dressing jacket tnut
1t needed no care? What was on hour
standing, In comparison with IL gown
which would endure season? And
now would please get Into bicycle
skirt, which came EcSt?
'.Then / rebellcd fell on the pcdes-
tai Into chair. limp, shaking and faint.
4 will not!' vowed tcarfully. 4 Will
not try on another thing II never have
bicycle sult-l don't want bicycle
sult--talic 1t nwny-go away--any-
thing!'"
Good graclous!" snld Howell, In re-
spectfui awe. Fancy speaking In that
manner to ones tallor!"
"Oh. that's because you are man."
said the girl contempluously. II never
saw any allegiance SO slaVish as that
which the modern man gives the tailor
who makes his clothes. He acts as
though there were not anothc: tailor on
earth besides his particular own who
new cheese cloth from velvet and sub
mits 10 being bullicd into buying wa!st-
coats he Is TOO shamctaced TO wear and
necktlcs OF the moment which he has to
give to the man who takes caro- OF tho
furnace after he has tried them on the
PUBLIC Just once and nhIrts he cndures
because he can't afford to buy calmcr