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ways had n Gravity feeling up and down
her spine when children were about, for
she never knew what they might pick up
and say. says Dorothy Maddox in the
Philadelphia Inquirer"
1 thought at the time, what an old fuss
budget! l know more about children now
than I did then and I must confess I
have qualms, too, when one of the inno-
cent dears comes sliding around.
The fact that children and fools tell the
truth does not seem to help out an em-
barrassing situation much. The fool who
tells an unpleasant truth is forgiven, but
when a ~youngster opens its mouth and
makes revelation then we begin to prick
up our ears TO listen.
l went TO a breakfast last winter where
a very funny thing happened. The break
fast was in Boston. The grand dame who
gave it had a six-year-old daughter. She
came dancing into the dressing room
where a lot of early arrivals stood talk
ing. A lady wearing a very pretty violet
bonnet asked a friend if bonnets were not
in order2
The query was put because on the bed
lay half a dozen or more hats. AT this
the tot OF six, in a shrill little voice. said:
Il heard mamma say she hoped all the
ladies would take off their bcnnets, for
She wanted it to be as grand as possible"
We looked at one another and nearly
suffocated with laughter and the way our
bonnets and hats came off was a caution.
And wouldn't mamma nave given
daughter a nice, healthy shaking if she
had happened to overhear the hand
over of her hearts desires. Poor hit
tie thing, she had caught parrot fashion
the remark, and seemed delighted that
She could help out the puzzled ladies.
Some of the most startling family Sc
crets are let out of the bag by the small
fry of the household, Matters of greatest
Importance leak out and everybody Won
ders where on earth people got hold OF
family affairs that should have been hid
den.
Why. from the big-eyed innocents who
sit about and drink in family secrets as II
they were nectar, and sometime when one
of the little folk is aching to become the
centre of observation he or she searches
through his brain or tries for something
interesting to say, and the mischief is
done.
My grandmother was always quoting
'.little pitchers" I used to puzzle over
this and wondered why, after she made
the remark, such a deathlike hush fell up
on everybody.
Poor little onesi how hard they try to
secure a crumb of attention. and what
dreadful consequences result from the
small ambitions that insist upon being
heard as well as seen.
An observant person claims that while
none of the gentler sex has to stand very
much in the street cars of Baltimore, the
other conditions being equal, a short wo-
man is much more apt to be offered a
seat in a crowded tram than a tall one,
says the Baltimore Sum- He claims
that the reason for this is men admire
tiny women most. and being a man he
ought to know something about the sex,
but the chances are that the average per
son is moved to pity rather than admir-
alton at seeing a short woman standing
on tip toes the better to clutch a strap,
which threatens each moment to pull
her arms from their sockets 1t is a sight
to move even an inhuman heart, and the
average man is not inhuman-
A few years ago the star of the short
woman reached its zenith. The heroine of
a novel who was over five feet in height
did not meet with appreciation from either
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girl who was sung in verse and told in
story. her plump little figure was used to
illustrate fashion plates. and in real life
it was she who could say audacious
things, do undignifed ones. be saucy or
pert or kittenish, as the spirit moved, and
still not be considered anything worse
than audacious. She was very attractive,
was the coy little woman. and popular
~r;tb l@afh covor. H1rf-hor 1ay has naSSed
If you don't believe it, look at the
daughters of the gods. divinely tall if not
diyinely fair. who books and
fashion designs; pick up the latest novel
and make a note of the number of inches
the heroine measures, or notice on the
street the subterfuges to which the sex
is resorting to increase in apparent
height.
The short woman has been discovered
to be not stylish, not imposing, and not a
good many other things OF that sort. Her
audacity and her kittenish ways are left
her-that is all. But she has the best Of
it In one place, at least; she gets a seat
in a crowded car nine times where the tall
girl does once, an advantage that should
be sufficient to repay her for her loss of
prestige in other directions. 1t doesn't
make any difference which men like the
better, it is the tiny girl who cannot
reach who moves them to pity and TO
offer her their cherished place next the
end.
basting the skirt breadths together
thelining and outside should be firmly
basted Oh both sides of the CORES, as well
as top and bottom. and an extra line of
basting run through the center. all of
Which should remain intact until the
seams have been well pressed. says the
ttWoman's Home Companion Always
begin at the top and haste downward,
allowing any unevenness to come out at
the lower edge of the skirt. Do not run
several stitches at one lime on the needle
as you are almost sure in that way to
make the side next to you fuller than the
under side. Pin the breadths together at
intervals, with the pins running across
the seams rather than up and down, and
haste straight and firm, taking but one
stitch at a time. When all seams are
basted together, try on. and be sure of
the fit before stitching. A medium stitch
should always be used in sewing up skirt
seams. as too small a one causes them to
draw, and when too large they are likely
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