The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-11-12
He Knew What He Wanted.

its a little time and attention.
The other day the woman was Just start
ing out to 60 to tea at one of the hotels,
when she met her cousin on the street.
"Hulloa! Mamie, said he, jovially, and
with all a relatives familiarity; ''you are
the very person wished to see. want
you to 80 to my tailor with me and help
me select the goods for spring suit 1
know exactly what | want but T like to
have your opinion on the matter-you
women are so sure you have better taste
than anyone else
"What time is it?' asked the young
woman, irrelevantly. "Four? Well, how
long will it take you to choose your goods,
for have an engagement at which |
must positively keep.
''It will take me, replied the man, eff
| have good luck, about ten minutes and
four seconds to order the best looking suit
you ever saw. could buy whole trous-
seau while you We're selecting handker-
chief -
perhaps you could, - said his compan-
ion, meekly, though she ism t meek, but
she had no idea of taking up the cudgels
for her sex when there was only cousin
to be downed.
All the way to the tailor shop the man
talked about the new suit he was going to
order and how he thought light gray was
both becoming and stylish; but once in
side the shop he merely said to the tailor,
in quite an abnormally dignifed tone, II
wish to see some styles, and then placed
a chair for his cousin, and waited The
tailor was very polite. He said Ger
tainly and also ''0fcourse, and brought
out and draped over the counter no less
than seven pieces of cloth. The man ex-
amined them leisurely.
This is a pretty thing, he said when
he reached the seventh piece.
so it is, said the woman.
1T Is indeed, remarked the tailor
perfectly impartial
But | prefer lighter gray.
1T would probably be more becoming,
assented the tailor, still impartially,
1T wouldn't at all, declared the wo-
man. you are entirely too fair for such
a light shade, you look better in dark blue
than anything.
Be hanged if tn look ike cross be-
tween a soldier and a street car conduc-
tor. protested the man. We had blue
suits since WAS 3 years old and wore sail
or collars and long eurls, and I'm not
going back to them now.
The woman sat down on her chair again,
aud the tailor brought forth seven more
bolts of cloth
What do you think of this one, asked
the man, taking hold, gingerly, of an end
Of cloth which combined in it's foreground
stripes of red with fecks of green.
Beautiful said the tailor.
"Hideousr declared the woman.
Il don believe you know much about
men clothes. remarked the man, some
what resentfuly.
why did you ask me to come with you
to help you choose suit?' demanded the
woman, with spirit.
L
pose Then the man hung over new
bolt Of goods that the tailor had brought
in exactly as a girl might hang ever her
wedding gown, and said, BY jove, that's
a dandy Why in thunder shouldn't
take that?r
The woman said nothing, for she was
furious, but she thought great deal.
Then the man made choice. He
chose three out of the 25 rolls of goods
which we're scattered about the room, and
implored the woman to cheer up and help
him select the most beautiful of the three
His adviser asked him to wrap them in
turn about his neck, and very sheepishly
the man obeyed and stood looking ike a
convicted criminal while the woman walked
around him gazing at him Finally, she
decided.
This is the prettiest, she said point
ing to a gray mixed goods; and do hurry,
for | see it Is quite ) o clock, and | shall
he late for my engagement.
II don care for that one, said the
man, carelessly; Il believe L Il take this, -
indicating a very good-looking piece of
blue, with a faint plaid in it.
Beautiful. said the tailor, ecstatic-
ally.
But thought you didn' ike blue,
exclaimed the woman. The man gave her
withering look. ''Why do you always
introduce unpleasant subjects?" he asked
Then his eye was caught by brown tweed,
which he pronounced deucedly goodlook
ing. and he tried 70 decide between it and
the blue for Is minutes.
Il think shall have to 90, said the
woman, drawing on her gloves.
Nonsense, replied her escort, gazing
at the brown with his head on one side;
what the use of being in such hot haste
always. Ill take you down to the hotel
after we get through here and buy you
whole dinner if you want it, just help me
decide between this brown and the blue -
They both very swell said the
tailor, softly.
Take the brown, said the woman, by
way VI ASiptuS AhdttSiS a4OhS' auu HOb bC-
cause she liked the brown best
Il reckon I'll take the blue, said the
man, as if her opinion had finally decided
him against the other cloth. Just give
me sample Of each, please.
1t took the man 25 minutes after this to
decide upon ways of making and to be
measured, and while the woman fidgeted
she heard him in the next room giving the
tailor explicit directions about the width of
his trousers and exactly how broad his
shoulders were to be. And then they
went to the hotel, and the woman found
that the friend who was to have met her
there had grown tired and gone on, and
she spent miserable half-hour, for the
man did nothing but drink highballs and
ask every acquaintance who came that way
which of the two samples he liked the
better. And if he said the brown the man
grew sad and if he said the blue the man
grew jubilant and it was all extremely
wearying to the victim of masculine vanity.
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