Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
THETIP WENI WRONG
GUT IT LOOKED LIKE A SURE
ENOUGH GOOD THING.
Woman Whose New Gown Dyed Her
Before the Race Tells Of a "Hunch"
That Was Misleading-story Of a
Tragedy.

The woman with the washed-out
polkadot gown looked sadly at her
friend in the fresh looking tan linen
frock who had called to see her.
What are you looking so blue
about?" asked the tan linen girl. The
washedout woman eyed her sharply.
Then she flushed.
Il suppose you mean my gown"
she replied. mo doubt you are sur
prised to see me wearing such raggy
looking thing-but I'm doing it as a
punishment"
The tan linen girl looked the washy
gown over. Are your sins as bad
as that?" she said. Il can hardly
believe it,"
No womanly woman should ever
bet on n horse race!" announced she
who was being punished.
"Oh, | don't know" said the tan
linen girl. Il won a hat and a dozen
gloves and two pounds of bon bons
on the Suburban"
"Oh, pouf! | don't mean bets like
that. You never have to pay if you
lose. ! mean real money
IL never knew you were that sort
of a grill" said the tan linen one.
mo, | am not: that's the trouble.
| don't know anything about it. But
there are worse things. 1t all began
with this gown-this limp, spotty look.
ing thing you see me wearing. This
Is one of those alluring creations that
you see in shop windows on beauti.
full blonde wax lady with red finger
nails
Just fancy" said the tan linen
girl.
You wouldn't notice the gown at
all except that you see it from the
street car. You wouldn't see it ex.
cept that it has big staring price
mark on the wax lady's chest or hang
ing from her elbow like theater bag
This holds you and although you may
purchasing goods that are marked in
windows, it fascinates you like a
Japanese crystal.
in reality il is a regularly cooked
up trap for catching feminine Holsters
and there is always a lot more lobster
to feminine one than the other kind
You stand staring at the gown and
say to yourself: Twenty-Five dollars
Goodness. That's how some women
manage to dress so cheaply. Now
should go to Chargem's and pay forty
five for one no better
You don't really think of getting
the gown, but you yield to the tempta
ton of going in shop that you've
never been in before. You are me-
inside the door by an imposing speci
men of masculnity, who smiles ant
bows with certain magnificent I'm
bending of dignity and tnen almost
carries you to the elevator. When yor
are projected on the floor designated
you are met by another man. He
usually looks as though he'd seen bet
ter days and has that straggly sort o.
whiskers that you might call near
whiskers.
This man scrapes before you ant
call out a young woman, feet high
with a As bust measure, who passe:
you on to another Juno. BY this time
they have you landed in the basket
You feel positively ashamed to have
come in for such a cheap gown. Ere
quently all they have to do is to brini
out a $50 or a 500 gown at thi!
stage and you order it,"
IF you have the money, you mean?'
And sometimes when you dom
nave it. You find the gowns are made
up without any silk lining. That, o
course, reduces their value, but tn,
heavyweight girl tells you they are 81
light for summer. Then with a sor
of Japanese wrestling tactics they ge
one around you in some way before ;
tall mirror and pull 1t down in thu
back just as Warfield does when h
sells a coat in the play, and tell yo,
that all it needs is a little alteration
This is just what narpeIed to me
l will say that the Juno girl seemed