The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-04-20

Now, which do you think is the
best?" she Queried, eXcitedly.
took a mental survey of Persis'
type of beauty.
'This," I asserted. picking it up.
pride myself upon being quick and
accurate judge Of harmony in colora-
ton.
do you?" commented Persis, doubt
fully. How about this?" and she held
another against her throat.
pretty good, too," agreed. liked
It better than mine.
Cor this-here's perfect dream!'
: So It Tas>...I admitted Ito myself
that Persis' TASTE was after all, the
superior. ~
"Any of the three will do,' I sug-
gested.
But which is the most becoming?"
she persisted.
1.-The last-yes, l should say the last"
I hazarded, critically.
!, Its $3.50 a yard-the most expen-
/ siye in the whole lot" she announced,
triumphantly.
I might have foreseen that such
would be the case.
"The one you cLose-the first one, l
mean-is only $3," she added.
inspected the tags and made dis
covery.
But the S3 one is only forty-eight
Inches wide and the $3.50 one is fifty
two inchesr' exclaimed. How many
yards less of the fifty-two-inch stuff
would you have to get than of the
forty-eight-inch?
q. ,1It is such little difference that I'd
have to order just the same Of either"
she avowed six yards"
"Of course not; then what's the sense
In having different widths?" / correct
ed, out of my masculine pracicalness.
"Lets see." / demonstrated upon
paper for moment. six yards forty.
eight inches wide would be 2SS inches
of width for $1S; six yards of the fifty
two-inch stuff, at $3.50, would be 81
inches for S21. Here's twenty-four ex
ira inches for which you're paying al
the rate of $3.50 yard. Five and q
half yards of the fiftytwo-inch stuff
make 2S6 inches of width, and the df
ference between this and six yards OF
the forty -eight-inch stuff is only two
inches! Those two inches could easily
be saved, somehow, and you therefore
would be paying $19.25 for suit pat
% +lo wi
would have to pay only S1.25 less for {
suit of the So cloth! See?"
Persis looked puzzled - even bewil
dered. She is not a good hand at rapit
figuring.
"But-but few inches of width don
count in suit pattern" she responded
s4The length is what we go by"
Then you say that just as many
strips forty eight inches wide are uset
by the tailor as fifty-two inches wide"
II questioned, aghast.
Certainly she replied.
I reflected that among woman:
curvy and baggy effects when attiret
for inspection twenty-four inche!
might, after all, be very handily ex
r. pended.
"You know the cloth has to be Gu
into and gored so. to fit the form
where attempted Persis. further.
But 1 thought you were going It
have pleats," interrupted, spying ;
flaw in her garment. "Of course, j
you're to have the gored suit then
understand. l figured with an eye t
pleats."
$50 I am going to have the pleats-
but the cloth has to be gored hasn'
it,"
went to business. Women are funn.
creatures.
When I came home at noon. appaT
emily Persis was still just as had let
her, rapturously gloating over the al
ray Of samples. but in the interval 0
my absence she had moved. for sh
had employed q tailor. He was III
first one whom she had intervieweI
upon her previous rounds.
HE says that have fine figure 70
the new-style coats, and that-becaus
of that. you know-he will charge IN
but $50 instead of $50. for he expect
that III be good advertisement 70
him. Very few women, he says. ca
look so well as in the latest eSclusiv
nodev Dragged Persis, frustrated.
Then you'd better order the $S.5