The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-04-13

Now, which do you think Is the
best?" she queried excltedly.
took a mental survey of Persis'
type of beauty.
This" 1 asserted. picking it up. l
accurate judge of harmony in colora-
6on.
7 do you?" commented Persis. doubt
fully. How about this?" and she held
mother against her throat.
"Pretty good, too" agreed. I liked
It better than mine.
"Or this-here's perfect dream
So it was. l admitted Ito myself
that Persis' taste was, after all, the
Iuperior.
s"Any of the three will do" I sug-
gested.
"But which is the most becoming?"
she persisted.
'The last-yes, should say the last"
! hazarded. critically.
,'"It's $3.50 yard-the most expen-
sive in the whole lot" she announced.
triumphantly.
III might have foreseen that such
would be the case
"The one you chose-the first one,
mean-is only S3," she added.
, / inspected the tags and made dis
eovery.
But the S3 one is only forty-eight
inches wide and the $3.50 one is fifty
two inchesv' exclaimed. How many
Eards laso nf ha un.inch Sttlh
would You have to get than of the
orty-eight-inch:'
s'It is such little difference that I'd
have to order just the same of either"
she avowed. "Six yards
H"Of course not; then what's the sense
in having different widths?' l correct
ed, out of my masculine practicalness.
rLets see." l demonstrated upon
paper for moment. ''Six yards forty
eight inches wide would be 2SS inches
of width for SIS: six yards of the fifty
twO-inch stuff, at $780, would be 312
Inches for $21. Here's twenty four ex-
ira inches for which you're paying at
the rate of $3.50 a yard. Five and Il
half yards of the fifty-two-inch stuff
make 2S6 inches Of width, and the diff.
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
tern of the $3.50 cloth, whereas you
would have to pay only $1.25 less for q
suit of the So cloth! See?'
fkPersis looked puzzled even bewil
dered. She is not good hand at rapid
figuring.
t"But-but few inches of width dom
count in a suit pattern" she responded
1.-THE 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 wider
questioned, aghast.
"Certainly." she replied.
VI reflected that among woman.
curry and baggy effects when attiret
for inspection twenty-four inches
might. after all, be very handily ex
pended.
'You know the cloth has to be Gu
Into and gored so. to fit the form
where" attempted Persis, further.
But thought You were going t.
have pleats," l interrupted, spying
fiaw in her garment. "Of course,
you're to have the gored suit, then
understand. ! figured with an eye t
pleats."
$50 l am going to have the pleats-
but the cloth has to be gored. hasn'
atY"
Iwent to business. Womenare funn
ereatures.
When l came home at noon. appai
emily Persis was still just as I had lef
her, raptmously gloating over the al
ray Of samples, but in the interval @
my absence she had moved. for sh
Pad employed tailor. He was tn
FIRST one whom she had intervlewe
upon her previous rounds.
pn''He says that have fine figure 70
fhe new-style coats. and that-becaus
Iuf that, you know-he will charge m
but $25 instead of $50, for he expect
that I'll be good advertisement Il
bim. Very few women. he says. ca
Hook 80 well as In the latest exclusiv
model" Dragged Persis. Illustrated.
iYben you'd better order the o3.e