Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-03

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Now, which do you think is best?"
she queried, excitedly.
took mental survey of Perss
type of beauty.
This" | asserted, picking it I'D.
| plide myself upon being a 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. I
liked it better than mine.
Cor this-here's perfect dream!"
So it was. | admitted Ito myself
that Persis' taste was, after all, the
superior.
Any of these three will do" sug,
gested.
But which is the most becoming?"
she persisted.
The last-yes, | should say the
last" | hazarded. critically.
IT'S $3.50 a yard-the most ex-
pensive in the whole lot" she an.
nounced triumphantly.
might have foreseen that such
would have been the case.
The one you chose-the first one.
| mean-is only 49," she added,
I inspected the tags and made a dis.
covery.
But the So one is only forty-eight
inches wide and the $3.50 one Is fifty,
two inches" exclaimed. How
many yards less of the nfty-two inch
stun would YOU have to get than of
the fortyeight inch?"
1T Is such little difference that I'd
have to order Just the same of either"
she ayowed, six yards"
"Of course not then what's the
sense in having different widths?"
corrected, out of my masculine praC.
ticalness. Lets see" demon
strated upon paper for moment, six
yards forty-eight inches wide would
be 2SS inches in width for SIS; six
yards OF the tfty-twoinch stuff, at
$3.50 would be 312 inches for s21.
Here's twenty-four extra inches for
which you're paying at the rate of
$3.50 yard. Five and half yards OF
the llfty.twoinch stuff make 2Sh
inches of width. and the difference be
tween 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 he paying S19.25 for suit pat
tern of the $3.50 cloth. whereas you
would have to pay only 1928 less for a
suit OF the So cloth, See?"
Persis looked puzZled-even be
wildered She is not a good hand at
rSrlG figuring,
"But-but a few inches Of width
don't count. in SUIT pattern" she
responded. The length is what we
so by"
Then you say that just as many
strips forty-eight inches wide are used
by the tailor as tifV-two inches
wido?" | questioned, aghast,
Certainly" she replied.
reflected that among a woman's
curry and baggy effects when attired
for inspection twenty-four inches
might, after all, be very handily ex.
pended.
You know. the cloth has to be cut
into and gored SO. to fit the form
where" Persis.
But | though you were going to
have plaits," | interrupted, spying a
flaw in her argument, "Of course. il
you're to have the gored split then l
understand. ] figured with an eye to
plaits
So | am going to have the plaits--
but the cloth has got to be gored,
hasn't it?"
went to business. Women are
funny creatures.
When l came home at noon ap,
parently Persis was still just as had
left her, rapturously gloating over the
array of samples; but in the interval
of my absence she had moved, for she
had employed tailor. He was the
first one whom she had interviewed
upon her previous rounds.
He says that have a fine figure
for The new-style coats, and that
because of that. you know-he will
charge but s25 instead of $50. for he
expects that I'll be a good advertise
ment for him. Very few women. he
says, can look so we'll as in the