The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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See that woman" said the man in
| the Prince Albert coat and straw hat,
dragging that good dress through the
street Shouldn't you think she'd have
| more sonse?" The other man assent"d
wearly and the first speaker continued,
as they walked along behind two
| handsomely dressed women with
! fashionably trailing skirts. Nov
| there's one of 'em who holds hers up.
She seems to have some idea of neat
ness and decency, but just look at that
other one in the blue Can you im-
| agine any tidy person being so care
less"
Yes" replied the quiet looking man
in the gray suit II can. That's my
! wife in the blue dress. It cost her 1ifty-
eight dollars. I've seen the bill. She
knows il is more styleh to let it drag
She's neat enough at home Sometimes
| / think she's possessed Of a clean devil
If a newspaper happens to be cat-a-
cornered instead of straight in the
paper rack it gives her nervous head
ache, She is growing gray worrying
over the grocery boys who won't wipe
their feet at the kitchen door. and the
lVNl VI US ilN ~ltNlllS gray lbI lfdl We
may let a fly in. or forget the combina-
tiCn of the books on the parlor table.
I'd like to know what's the use of pay
ing five hundred dollars for three pieces
OF furniture that I've never seen since
the day they came home. They've been
in swaddling clothes of brown linen
! from that hour. | asked her one time
why we couldn't have had some ma
| 1,r,fr lrnNv nd .t,t ,,f
holstered in brown linen instead of
Empire brocade at S32 u yard which
has never been uncovered to view since
we had the chairs, but she received
my inquiries with such naughty scorn
that 1 dropped the matter only 1 was
really anxious to know. It may be q
source of feminine satisfaction to fee
conscious that the empire brocade Is
there. but the secret has never beer
specially attractive to me. However
never did pretend to understand wo'
, men,
The other men listened with Interest
and the gray coated one continued
: "She fuses because she says I'm Sc
untidy about dropping things on my
clothes when l eat, and the children
howl Gismally whenever they're beinl
row when they get grass stain or some
( thing else on their clothes, but she Ger
tainly is fixing her dress in great shap,
t today. She'll take more dirt into tn,
house this afternoon than the rest o
the family did in the past six months,
and he turned off Wyoming avenue
with smile of satisfaction on hi
I | Visage.
n Verify this summer fitting is a weari
ness to the flesh. l know it must be 70
t 1 heard three fair maids says so an,
with several trunks full of lovel,
/ things too Now it would seem that
few trunks well filed with chiffons ant
pretty clothes in general would max
= earth so bright that nothing short o
contracting the hay fever or losing al
+ ones teeth or ones fiance or sustaining
d some such calamity could darken j
even temporarily. But these girl
! walled in chorus: "Here we have guam
;. titles of thin things-organdies, dimi
ties. crinkled chiffon and net, and her
i our mothers have suddenly decided I
n go to Block Island where you can't Wea
q thin things and where if you take 'er
y out of your trunk they look like rag
and oh. dear" wound up the refrain
9 We haven't any new thick clothes a
r. all"
IS Then there is the difficulty in find
IS ing Just the place for the tlitting
e Wherever you go you probably wis
" it had been somewhere else. Even
u YOU have a heap of money and go fror
? a provincial town to some fashionabl
resort you find youself ignorant Of tn
pass word that admits to most Of tn
It shrines where you would enter. If 70
haven't plenty Of money-but what
'e the use of describing summer Wretched
ness!
A. II you have a country place or
- summer home your condition is anne
~ iorated i'm some respects, while i'm other
S. the misery is intensified You mus
e- entertain company ana therefore 50
little rest fpom the years routine, The
le you feel the necessity of going to IN
Z, same old place year after year, an
+ while it is pleasant and like ones oW
particular burdens, rather dear b'
Is cause II is ones own, il is just the leas
v bit monotOnOus.
G The only really sensible canny thin
as TO do Is TO make To Y0uself friends {
T. mammun, so that they win take you IN
va to their houses at the sea shore and III
4 | mountains Whero with a judiCiOl
to selection Of those friends you can maI
age to have a variety i'm the way
summer entertainment, II may mea
a great deal Of winter attentions an
e. considerable Inconvenience at tim
while in the city, hut it is worth II