The Jennings daily record., 1902-08-06

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What are you looking SO blue
tlbout?" asked the tan lirAn girl. The
wsdeed puts wdtAadf ga Aer sharply.
TheA ssJ ush6
T siupose gDaS nen 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!
Y The tan linen girl looked the washy
4 gownssOver.s fare yOurMsins as bad
as ithaf 2" she said. go cln hardiy
believe it, 49, s"~%HH
mo womanly woman should ever
bet on horsegraceAs announced she
who was being punished.
"Oh, don't known" said the tan
4 linen girl. Il won a hat and dozen
gloves and two pounds Of bon bons
on the Suburban." 4
"Oh, pouf! I don't mean bets like
that. You never have to pay II you
| lose. l mean real money"
Il never knew you were that sort
of grill" said the tan linen one.
| NO.. am not; that's the trouble.
l 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" q .,z. az,e., .4ssss N~
Gust fancy" said the tan linen
girl. sfsT@ F xt s@t Z,
"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 a big staring price
mark on the wax lady's chester hang
ing from her elbow like theater bag.
This holds you and although you may
have the natural, Unborn antipathy for
purchasing goods that are marked in
windows, it fascinates you like q
Japanese crystal.
''In reality it is a regularly cooked
up trap for catching feminine Holsters
and there is always 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 womer
manage to dress so cheaply. Now
should go to Chargem's and pay forty
five for ore no better ...
you don't really think of getting
the gown, but you yield to the tempta
tion of going in a shop that you've
never been in before You are me-
inside the door by an imposing speci
men of masculinity, who smiles ant
bows with a certain magnificent un
bending of dignity and tnep almos
carries you to the elevator. When yol
are projected on the floor designated
you are met by another man. Ht
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 young woman, feet higl
with a 4S 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 cheap gown. Ere
quently all they have TO do is to bring
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 don
have it. You find the gowns are mad
up without any silk lining. That. o
course, reduces their value, but tn
heavyweight girl tells you they are S
light for summer. Then with a sor
of Japanese wrestling tactics they ge
one around you in some way before
tall mirror and pull it down in tn
back just as Wartield does when h
sells a coat in the play, and tell yo
that all it needs is little alteration
This is just what narpe:ed to M
/, I will say that the Juno girl SCENE