The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-20

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the-century fashion that would adapl
ilself easily to the style al the end oi
the century. Indeed. little AIRS. Vim
ing, knecling on the floor in her attic
storeroom and spreading the lustrous
fabric across the top Of the big Noah's
Ark trunk. WIS already-in fancy, Al
ieast-"taking ia" here and "letting
out' there. with a certainty 81 success.
born 0f long experience.
For eighteen years Mrs Vining had
been making over for a family Of three
pretty daughters. and as she said to
herself, she could almost do it with
her eyes shut" To-day, however. Mrs
Ainlng WIS planning for meme OF these
pretty daughters. Once. indeed when
she heard the sound Of a girls voice
% the room below she started ard
crumpled the folds Of the silk together
almost guiltIly.
4 don't care" she said to herself.
when the voice died away. Il don't
care. Im going TO have this silk for
my very own. It viii make over as
good as new without bit Of trimming
except what I've got in tie house ana
DO SO want something that's pretty
and in stylew
The last words came with she rush
Of a long pent-up stream Not since
The girls bad outgrown their baby
clothes had Mrs. yining owned a gown
tnat even remotely approached that
ideal.
The Winnings lived In a pretty cottage
IA popular suburb. kept trim maid
of-ail work, gave tcas ann provided
music and dancing lessons for their
daughters ~ addkion to lhe regular
COURSES al fAe pubIiS schools. In fact.
they had enough for the comforts 81
'ifc with a little left over for the lux
uries; Int that little. either in whole
on part, mover fell 10 Mrs. Vining.
One month It went for n tca.table FOR
Ellen. Tie eldest, VINO had social as.
pirations; another month It was alb
sorbcd by o subscription to the boat
club for Bertha. the athletic daughter.
or BY dancing lessons for fifteen. year
old Edith.
Then there were always the gowns --
gowns for Ellen's whist parties AMI /
Bertha's tennis clul and Edlth's dane
ing class; gowns Of cotton anG crepon
and silk and muslin, gowns that even
when manufactured at home and made
over from material that was Gin the
house, IN some way ate up every pen.
my that the little mother had laid by
FOR her own modest OUTFIT
In The end, Mrs. vininr always either
attended Dawton teas and church So
ciables arraycd in a prehistoric black
silk, or stayed away altogether. or /
late She had always stayed away. and /
the three girls said that st really was
not worth while for mother to have
good clothes. for she never wen, any.
where and didn't care.
Being really amlable and sweet-na.
lured girls they probably believed
what they said Indeed. it's quite
likely that it never occurred to their
that mother didn't care to 90 anywhere
because she had no suitable clothes
Meantime, Mrs vining said nothing
af all
But just within the last week Mrs.
F'ning had come to care very much.
both about clothes and abont "goine
somewhere" In two weeks there was
10 be a reunion OF the Avery family at
the old place in Averytown. New
Hampshire. and snc had been asked
a. write the poem.
-You see haven't forgotten the love
~ poetry you used to write IN the days
when you were Grace Avery and the
Ayerytown poet. belle and glass Of
fashion, an IN one wrote the home.
staying cousin who had sent out the
invitations. "and count on you as ms
chief attraction Which letter goes
far toward explaining the special dis
favor with which Mrs Yining had
eyed the prehistoric black silk when
she took It down that morning for the
sixteenth course 81 alteration
Mrs Fniug was the mother OF
grown daughters; but she was such
brighteyed. pink-cheeked aud alto
eeihef youthful little mother that r. ls
not 70 De wondered II that she shrank
from ile ordeal of returning to what
thc newspapers woulG cal "the scene
~ her girlish tfiumphs- gowned in
black six that was shiny where it
ought 70 have been lustreless. narrow
where it ought 70 have Been broad.
and broad where il should have been
uarrcw-a gown. ia fact. that exhibit
50 all the known depraviiy OF clothes
iiat have 0utlifud their allotted period
oi service
u suppose I'm horribly selfish and
uofidly-minded.- iie little mother hail
>ad TO herself that morning. as she
>af in the study trying to read tile
Woman's page in ihe Boston World.
.3u, & does seem as u ] c0uidn't bear
s. St way wasn't opened for ne to
harn r ncU gown f0r ihai reunion.
insI then something in TIE fashion
poses caught hcr attention and Set