Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-15
WORE HIS SHIRTS.
AA0 Who Followed the New Custom
Found That She Had Taken
His Wardrobe.

The Chicago man who figured as the
in r~elated-was a shirt waist enthusi-
asst from the beginning of the excite
ment and discussion anent the mascu-
line shirt waist. Nowadays, however
but thereby hangs a story, says the
Tribune.
The man, who is inclined to be diff
dent and lacking in self-confidence, is
happy in the possession of a sister
whose character is just the reverse
of his own. To this sister he some
time ago submitted the difficult prob
lem of: Shirt waist this summer or
next? Is it best to lead a fashion or
follow it? and announced his inten-
ton of abiding by her decision.
Lead, by all MEANS" ran the sis
ter's verdict.
Then, as the man had small conf
dence in his W taste, she selected
the materials for the new garments
from the samples he submitted to her,
decreed o they should be construct
ed, and pronounced them admirable
when finished and sent home. But
her decision Of character seemed to
desert her suddenly when the brother
passed into the throes of that agony
known as the 'shirt waist indecision."
The brother pinned to wear the new
waists and be comfortable-and coat
less-but he dreaded to seem too early
in the field. The sister no longer en-
couraged and upheld him as she had
formerly done. and the new shirt
waists were placed in a darkened
closet and utterly intellectually their
owner-for several weeks.
Then, suddenly, all the other men
in the office seemed to have blossomed
out in the new garments, and the
mar who blushed to think of the new
waists he had lacked the courage to
wear hurried home to assume one.
And, to his surprise and establishment,
not a single shirt waist could he
find.
Every member Of the family pro-
fessed utter ignorance Of the mys-
ferrous happening every member,
that is, but the sister, who happened
to be away from home. She came
back, however, while her brother was
still storming about his loss, and her
guilty look betrayed her to the man
who might never have suspected her
enormities otherwise. The sister, be
it explained, is tall and finely fash
toned, while her brother is small and
slender. For a long moment they
looked steadily at each other, and
then:
rs that n of my new shirt waists
you have on?" querled the brother,
sternly, and the sister laughed.
"Yes," she answered, presently, still
smiling, sit is. They were so pretty,
you see," she explained, subsequent
ly, "that | just couldn't help trying
them on, Archie, and then-well, they
just exactly fitted me, and they were
so much prettier than my W that
well, you might as we'll know it!
I haven't had a single waist of my
own on since I took to wearing yours,
Archie. and you might as we'll give
them to me-, for you'll never get them
back in the world"
And now the brother is pretty Dad
ly divided in his own mind" He
know whether to give up the
waist problem entirely for this
summer, to replevin the garments
which his sister persists in refusing
% return, or to order a fresh dozen
Of shirt waists, 80 hideous in shape
and color that no temptation to petty
will be thrown in her way.
And the sister, meanwhile, is triumph
.ntly wearing the waists.