The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-08-07
THETIP WENT WRONG
SUI IT LOOKED LIKE a SURE
ENOUGH GOOD THING.
Woman Whose New Gown Dyed Her
Before the Race Tells Of "Hunch"
That Was MisieadIng-story Of q
= Tragedy.

The woman with the washed-out
polka.dot gown looked sadly. At her
friend in the fresh looking tan linen
trock who had called to see her.
What are you looking SO blue
about?" asked the tan lirAn girl. The
washed.out woman eyed her sharply.
Then she flushed.
Il suppose you mean my gown?"
she replied "No doubt you are sur
prised to see me wearing such raggy
looking thing-but I'm doing it as
punishment"
The tan linen girl looked the washy
gown over. Are your sins as bad
as that?" she said. Il can hardly
believe it." 4~
mo womanly woman should ever
bet on a horse race!" announced she
| who was being punished.
"Oh, l don't know!" said the tan
linen girl. Il won a hat and dozen
gloves and two pounds of bon bons
on the Suburban"
"Oh, pouf! don't mean bets like
that. You never have to pay ii you
lose. l mean real money
II never knew you were that sort
of girl!" said the tan linen one.
mo, am not; that's the trouble.
l don't know anything about 1t. 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 beautl-
| Gel Ii ID 1oI,y n
nails" ..
Gust 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
have the natural, Unborn antipathy for
purchasing goods that are marked In
windows, it fascinates you like a
Japanese crystal.
"In reality it is regularly cooked
up trap for catching feminine Holsters
and there is always lot more lobster
to a 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 ore no better
"You don't really think of getting
the gown, but you yield to the tempta
ton 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 then almos
carries you to the elevator When you
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 a young woman, feet high
with 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 cheap gown. Ere
uuently all they have 10 do is to brin:
out $50 or 500 gown at tni
stage and you order it,
eff 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, @
course, reduces their value, but tn
heavyweight girl tells you they are S
light for summer. Then with sor
of Japanese wrestling tactics they &c
one around you in some way before
tall mirror and pull it down in tn
back Just as Warfield does when h
sells coat in the play, and tell 20
that all it needs is little alteration
This is just what narpei-ed to M
/ will say that the Juno girl SCENE