The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-12

but made in the yOluminous middle-Of
the-ccntury fashion that would adapt
itself easily TO the style at the end U;
the century. Indeed little Mrs Vim
ing, kneellng ON the floor in her attic
stOrerOOm and spreading the lustrous
fabric across the top of the big Noahs
Ark trunk, was already-in fancy. at
least-"takins in here and Letting
out there. with certainty of success,
born of long experience.
For eighteen years Mrs V1nins had
been making over for Il family of three
pretty daughters, and as she said to
herself, she could almost do it with
her eyes shut" To-day. however Mrs.
Vining was planning for none of these
pretty daughters. Once. indeed. when
she heard the sound of girls voice
i'll tine room below she started ard
crumpled the folds of the silk together
almost guilty..
II don't care" she said to herself.
when the voice died away. 81 don't
care, I'm going to have this silk for
my very own. 1t will make over as
good as new without bit of trimming
except what I've got in t he house. and
and in Style"
The last words came with -he rush
of long pent-up stream Not since
the girls had outgrown their baby
clothes had Mrs. Winning owned a gown
that even remotely approached that
ideal
The Winnings lived in pretty cottage
in II popular suburb. kept a trim maid
of-ail work, gave teas and provided
music and dancing lessons for their
daughters III addition TO the regular
courses at the public schools. In fact
they had enough for the comforts of
life with little left over for the lux.
uries: but that little, either in whole
or part. never fell to Mrs Vininc
One month il went for IL tea table for
Ellen, the eldest. VINO had social as
pirations: another month it was alb
sOrbed by subscription to the boat
club for Bertha. the athletic daughter.
OF by dancing lessons for ffteen-ye year
old Edith.
linen there were always The gowns
gowns for Ellen's whist parties AMI
Bertha's tennis clul' and Edith'S dane
ing class: GOWNS of cotton am. crepCu
ana SILK and muslin, .ownS that even
when manEfa ctured at home and made
over from material that was sin the
house in some way ate up every pen
ny that the little mother mad laid BY
FOR her own modest outfit
In the end. Mrs. Tinins ALWAYS either
Dawron teas and church so.
clahleS arraycd III Il prehistoric blacl: |
SILK, or stayed away altogether OF !
late she had always stayed away: ana !
the three girls said that it really was |
not worth while for mother. to have !
good clothes. for she never went any
where and didn't care.
Being really amiable and Swert-ua-
tured girls, they probably believed |
what they said. Indeed. it's quit"
likely that il never occurred to then.
that mother didn't care 10 go anywhere
because she had no suitahl clothes
Meantime, Mrs. Viuing said nothiu.
At all.
But just within the last week Mrs
'inlpG had come to care very much |
BOTH about clothes and about ''"oin"
In two weeks there waS
to he a reunion OF the Avery family ut
the old place in AverytOwn. New
hampshire. and sue had been asked
to write the poem.
You see l haven't forgotten the love
y poetry you used to write III the DAYS
when you were Grace Avery and the
Averytown poet. belle and glass Of
fashion, all in one wrote the home
staying cousin who had sent out the
nHita lions. land count Oh YOU us my
,hief attraction Which letter goes
ar toward explaining the special dis
'avor with which Mrs Vining had
'yed the prehistoric black silk when
'oe TOOK 1t down that morning for the
iXtcenth COURSE Of alteration
MIS-. Nmip@ was tie mother of !
;rown daughters; but she was such
pink-cheeked and alto
'ether youthful little mother that ii is
lot to be wondered at that she shrank
rom the ordeal of returning to what
ne newspapers would call the scene
i her girlish triumphs'' gOwned in 81
rack silk that was shiny where it
uGht to have been lustreless. narrow
where it ought To have been broad
nd broad where it should have been
arrGw-a gown, in fact. that exhibit.
Il all the known depravity of clothes
nat have outlired their allotted period
4 service
supp1Te I'm horribly selfish and
kdiyy" co" the little mother had
self that morning, as she
study trying to read the
age i'll the Boston World. :
secnf as if | couldn't bear