The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-23

efforts OF the family, assisted by the
cook. TO fasten 1t on her, she has to warn
the dressmaker that unless 1t rs an easy
fit she won't pay her bill. Then she has
to endure being told that her figure is
bad that she doesn't wear the right kind
OF lingerie. and to be sympathized with
In an insulting way and given TO UNDER
stand that ii Is pity she doesn't let those
people chose her clothes who really I'M
derstand dress. Nine times out OF ten the
dressmaker objects TO the kind of stays
you wear. and one particularly swell one
had the impudence TO tell a new customer,
You are the first lady ever fitted who
ala not wear satin corsets." Fortunately
the woman to whom this remark was
made had the courage OF her convictions
and responded. Probably I am the first
respectable woman you ever made a dsess
ieF III you are long-waisted they object
10 that. II you are short-waisted, they
object to that. II you are slender, they
speak or you as ''bony." and IL you are
plump they say. Fat is SO vulgar" The
good Lord ought 10 make a.faw women
TO order 10 please the dressmakers. AS
1t is, although most OF them grow rich,
they seem to regard the average woman
as most undesirable, as a sort of human
pincushion. and something that is always
TO be snubbed.
/ once had n tender-hearted dressmak-
err who wept over my shoulder so syste-
matically that got the rheumatism from
II. She cried about brother who had
been killed by an accident, The first time
/ was deeply sympathetic. for, of course.
i thought the accident had taken place
within the year, but IL turned cut that he
had been dead for seven years. and that
there never would have been an accident
IL he had been sober. She used to talk af-
ter this fashion: "Shaii l fit the skirt
smooth, ma'am?-he was me own brother,
a bright young fellow. that might bur for
his troubie-would you rather have a
hook. ma arrf-have got on in the world,
and been a credit--I'll face THE sides with
siik-to all of his people on both sides of
the water He was a beautiful corpse.
and we gave him-of course you could
button IL down the front--a wakeN that
was the talk of the neighborhooi for
months afIerwarG, and il took three
well, ribbon might do. bu, / never liked
those loose efTects-dispensarv doctors 10
straighten the rhen up so that thew could
show their proper respects for the re-
mains" After this she would break down
utterly and weep on my bare shoulder
and excuse the fact that IL was in the
rain by saying that she didn't want N
stain the stun. She was woman who
really enjoyed herself. She knew the all
soiute bliss OF sorrow. and she compre-
hended thoroughly how sublime n thing
~ was ~ SAtitE AtfsSH ana 10 make her
customers suffer with her. I was forced
70 give her up. NOT because she was not
good dressmsker but because from
constant sympathy my nose was getting
SO red that | was afraid some ternDer
ance society would come down upon me-
acting. of course. under a Ynlsaupreheu-
sion. But there was no doubt that woman
vas nne. She put a pocket IN your skirt.
and IN Cloth skirt she always Put two
pockets. Pockets and Independence are a
natural combination. and giving two mock
cts to worank!nd. and these two mock
ets near the front. where she can reach
them. makes her feel IL this were in
deed free country. With the possession
az pockets have discovered that woman
Is an accumlulattva animal In one Of my
pockets al the presen; time there are a
handkerchief. q watch. a calendar n LET
ter. two newspaper clippings, three gum
drops. four cloves. and the Picture of a
baby. In ths other one ara four l0-cen,
pieces o. am keeping them 90 put in a fc-
cent bank. a LOT Of pennies, a bunch a.
Keys. a glove huttoneF. a torn veil two
hafvpias. a religious pocm and A recipe
for making chicken gravy. Who can beat
that had safety pin. bat I lost H.
However. yHu cannot put confidence In a
safety pin. for - has 4 way az being So Il.
or unsafe. according 20 rs fancy. Bet
yeu can always rely on a hairpln. I 30
rot kasw 90 anything 20 which a hair
pan - not q valuable assistant
I have seen 3 Iock opened with . ha.<-
9ir,