Evening star., 1902-05-31
HER NEW BATHING SUIT

NOW, there, Safd Mr.. JobSon, holding
out at arms length a page Of last Satur-
days Star containing a couple of illustra-
tions OF a buxon woman in a modish bath
ing suit, there's my idea exactly of the
way woman ought to look when she goes
into the salt water- It's wonder to me
that you wouldn't rig up one like that, or
get one like it alreaay made, or something
before We go off on our vacation to the sea-
shore this summer. You're about the same
build as the woman that posed as the model
for these bathingsuft pictures and yet you
never yet have had a bathing suit worth
| shucks to look at. now, have your
"Oh, don't AtouTsy replied Mrs. Jobson.
You know you'd never in the world let me
wear bathing suit like that?'
Il wouldn't, hey?" exlaimed Mr.. Jobson,
wouldn't? Where'd you get hold of such an
idea as that?"
why. don't you remember. said Mrs.
Jobson, how You always objected to my
wearing any bathing suit skirt that wasn't
away below by knees and how, when put
nice, stylish one on that had only last
summer, you almost went into panic, and
insisted on my not wearing 1T. and made me
put on an old rented fappy thing that COW
cred me up like Should and made it impos-
sible for me to even wade?'
Mr.. Jobson shook his head sadly over this
| unusually long speech Of Mrs. Jobson.s.
We'll, If that don't take my time, moth
ing does,' he at length said in a tone of ut
ter astonishment, apparently addressing the
wall paper and not SO much as even look
ing at Mrs. Jobson "If that wouldn't
make Cardiff giant sit up and rub his
eyes, I'd like to know what would! Here's
woman that for years past every time
I've taken her down to the seashore, has
been in the habit of going into the surf
looking sight, a hay-bag, sack of
cement. simply because she hasn't had
enough gumption and pride to get herself
suit of bathing togs that would make her
look like something in the water, and
now, by jng, if she doesn't come along at
this day and date and swear on a stack of
Bibles that it's been my fault, and that |
made her wear bathing suits that caused
her to look like q stranded Walrus!
Wouldn't 1t daZe you?" and Mr.. Jobson
shook his head at the wallpaper sadly and
shook his head as if nothing was any use
any more after Mrs. Jobson's behavior.
But said Mrs. Jobson, don't you re-
member saying about those women at our
hotel that wore the short bathing skirts last
summer that they ought to We
mo, madam, l don't remember anything
of the Sort" broke in Mr.. Jobson. 'To my
exact and certain knowledge, l never have
even mentioned the subject of bathing
suits to you since I've known you. Never.
I've endured 1t in silent misery when you've
made your appearance on the beach with
me In an old outfit of rags that made you
look like manatee clinging to basalt
rock, but 1 sOlemnly affirm that this is the
ever so much as opened my mouth on the
subject Of bathing suits to you"
Mrs Jobson didn't make any reply to this,
but she looked right thoughtful for the re-
mainder of the evening. On Monday morn
ing she went down town and got some taf-
feta and other materials, bought bathing
suit pattern and on the same afternoon
went to work to manufacture a a-bathing
suit for herself.
She worked very industriously on it. so
that it was all finished on Thursday even
ing. - O.
Along toward bedtime she slipped up
stairs and donned the, bathing suit, to show
MI Jobson hoy it looked and ''sprise"
him. She looked pretty scrumptious in the
bathing suit, which was modelled on the one
pictured in last Saturdays Star to a T.
With neat oilskin cap on her head, and
canvas shoes tied with sandal strings, she
quietly descended the stairs, a very hand
some and presentah'e picture of a woman
in bathing regalia. Mr.. Jobson was sunk
in his arm chair reading the paper, but
Mrs. Jobson gave a slight cough as she
stood in the doorwaypan Mr. Jobson look
ed up. 9r-l y
He stared with strained gaze at Mrs.
JObson for full minute before he said a
word. Then he rubbed his eyes and gasped
"Wha-what dye call this, anyhow-part
of stag variety show?"
It's my new bathing suit that I've made
myself to surprises tou," said Mrs Jobson.
1T Is, hey?" hparsely exclaimed Mr.. job
son. sitting straight up in his chair and
all right And what dye think you're going
to do with that thing you've got on, eh?''
Why. wear it when go in sea-bathing,
of course" said Mrs. Jobson.
'You do, eh?' said Mr.. Jobson. well,
you've got think coming on that subject
that'n be bigger than Rock Creek Park
that's what you've got. If you imagine
for one-eighteenth of a second that you're
going to prance alongside of me into the
salt water rugged ont in a Little Egypt,
Partisan Widows. Night Owls, Amazon
March soubrette outfit like that-if you
think I'm going to have myself written up
in the seashore correspondence as the salt
water companion of an elephantine gayety
girl in such a bathing suit-why, the quick
er you forget 1t. HEadam-absolutely forget
1.-THE better It's going to be for you!'
However Mrs. Jobson was prepared for
such contingency. She told him she would
let the skirt down about a foot. She let
1t down an eighth of an inch on the follow
ing day. and when she tried it on to show
Mr.. Jobson last night he didn't know any
better and told her she looked splendid in
It,