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AN IGNoMINIous RETREAT.
The Determined Woman Met Her Match
In Her Dressmaker.

The Determined Woman Met Her Match
in Her Dressmaker.
Most persons who attempt to emanci-
pate themselves from established Gus
tom have periods of falling back into
the old way again. baffied reformers.
The real reformers are those who per-
sist. The New York Tribune tells
story In which a woman who thought
she had conquered was, after all, de-
feated. She considered herself strong
minded woman, and had determined
that she would have no more trailing
skirts. She told her dressmaker Of her
decision in tone which seemed to her
not to admit Of question or protest;
but she did not know that the dress
maker too, was strong-minded wom-
an, though In different way,
."Ohg" said the dressmaker, In tone
of mild preplexity. There was so much
behind that "0h!' that the woman felt
moved to assert herself.
81 will not" she exclaimed, "brlng
home a choice assortment of microbes.
but you needn't get a long skirt
soiled." said the dressmaker. "You
hold 1t up, you know"
"It tires me to hold ii up. l want to
step out freely"
"Oh! said the dressmaker again. 1t
was her favorite argument, and it was
apt to make her opponent wilt without
knowing why. She had worked for
that particular woman for several
years, and had exercised over her a
mild but invincible. depositism.
"They are all made long" ventured
the dressmaker, except the heavy
stitched wallSing-skirts.
81 don't care" said the woman. II
will defy fashion"
This time the dressmaker's "Oh" i'm
piled that to defy fashion was to In
woke death or disgrace. The woman
felt herself weakening before the mex
orable judgment of the zone who
knows"
you're very tall" said the dressmak-
er, softly. "And SLENDER" she added,
after an effective pause. Her power
lay in the fact that she never became
excited and never gave way. A vision
rose before the woman of her long,
thin, lanky self, clad girlishly in skirt
that escaped the ground, with pair
of very substantial feet peeping in and
out like anything rather than little
mice" But pride came to her aid.
"Cut 1t short" she ordered, sternly.
II mean," she added, ''cut it about half
an inch above the ground"
"The edge will cut out and collect
dirt" said the dressmaker, sadly.
"Let itv' said the desperate woman.
"It's light material, easily held up"
The tone grew more melancholy, as If |
the dressmaker were fighting with ad-
verse fate.
The woman was at bay. "I'll have 1t |
shortw she snapped, and the dressmak-
er relapsed into silence and depression. |
When the skirt was nearly finished she
tried 1t on with a look of mute despair.
"The circular fiounce is only basted on"
the dressmaker said, finally. "It-it |
can be let down."
whats all this length Of stuff under
the flounce?" aswed the owner Of the
skirt.
"Well, didn't cut 1t of, you know.
The fiounce can be let down. thought
you might change your mind"
at looks very straight up and down"
"Yes; If you have it long 1t will fare
out better. You're SO tall and slen-
der"
Let It DOWN. suddenly exclaimed
the woman. In the tone of general
who orders a retreat
very WELL" said the dressmaker, as
as If she were asserting to an
act Of self-sacrifice.