The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-20
A TkILOR-MkDE SUIT

Nov, which do you think is best! she
queried, evcitedly.
/ took a mental survey of Persis' type
of beauty.
This" l asserted picking it up. !
pride myself upon being quick and ac-
curate Judge of harmony in coloration.
DO you?" commented Persis, doubt
fulIv How about this?'' and she held
another against her throat.
Pretty good. too" l agreed. l liked
It better than mine
or this-here's a perfect dream
So it was I admitted (to myself that
Persis' taste was. after all. the superior.
ANY Of these three will do" l sug-
gested.
But which is the most becoming" she
persisted.
The Iast-yes. / should say the last"
/ hazarded. critically.
ITS $3.50 d yard-the most expensive
In the whole lot she announced, tri-
umphantly
might have foreseen that such would
have been the case.
The one you chose-the first one, l
mean-is only 3d. she added.
l inspected the tags and made a dis
covery
But the s. one is only forty-eight inch
IS wide. and the $3.50 one is fifty-two
Inches I exclaimed. How many yards
less of the fifty-two inch stuff would you
have to get than of the forty-eight inch?"
1t is such a little difference that I'D
have to order just the same Of either,
she vowed six yards"
.'Of course not; then what's the sense
In having different widths" 1 corrected,
out of my masculine practicalness. Lets
see" I demonstrated upon paper for a
moment. six yards forty-eight inches
wide would be 2SS inches Of width for
SIS; six yards Of the fifty-two inch stuff,
at $3.50 would be 3l2 inches for s21. Here's
twenty-four extra inches for which you're
paving at the rate of $3.50 a yard Five
an da half-yards of the fifty-two inch
stuff makes 2S6 inches Of width. and the
difference between this and six yards of
the forty-eight inch stuff Is only two
inches, These two inches could be cas-
iiy saved. Hometown and you therefore
would be paying Sl9.25 for suit pattern
Of the $3.50 cloth. whereas you would
have to pay only Sl.25 less for a suit of
the g cloth, See?"
Persis looked puzzled-even bewildered.
She is not a good hand at rapid figuring.
"But-but q few inches OF width don't
count. in a suit pattern she responded.
THE length is what we go by
Then you say that just as many strips
forty-tight-inches wide are used by the
tailor as fifty-two inches wide?" 1 qaes-
toned, aghast.
Certainly" she replied.
! reflected that among a woman's curry
and baggy effects whe nattired for inspec-
ton twenty-four inches might, after all,
be very handily expended.
You know, the cloth has to be cut into
and gorcd SO. to fit the form where"
attempted Persis
But / thought you We're going to have
plaits' / interrupted, spying a flaw in
her argument. "Of course, if you're to
have the gored suit then 1 understand.
I figured with an eye TO plaits."
so / am going to have the plaits-but
the cloth has got to bn sgered. hasn't -it?''
I went to business. Women are funny
creatures.
When / came home at noon apparently
Persis was still just as l had left her,
rapturously gloating over the array Of
samples: but in the interval of my alb
Eence she had moved, for she had en-
ployed a tailor He was the first one
whom she had interviewed upon her pre-
vious rounds.
He says that / have a fine figure for
the new-style coats, and that-because
of that. you know-he viii charge me
but S25 instead of $50. for he expects that
III he a very good advertisement for him.
Very fe wwomeH. he says. can look so
well as / in the latest exclusive mode
Dragged Persis. frustrated
Then you'd better order the $3.50
goods l proposed carried away by the
excitement of the moment
II hive" responded Persis. when do
you think they'll get here?"
Oh. dear, 1t was the samples all over
again. And when finally the much-bad-
gered express agent produced thc pack
age he banged it down as though to say:
Thank heaven
Persis proudly bore it to the tailor's.
and started forthwith the continuous
comedy Of "ePrsis- ana the Tailor. and
the continuous tragedy of "Persis and L.
Maybe / was unreasonable. l had had
Persis a year and a half all TO myself.
and maybe il was selfish in me to be
grudge her to the tailor Nevertheless,
about that tailor's operations was a sys-
tematic siugleness of purpose that ground
upon me nightly.
I never could get ahead Of him. Al
though l toleahoned (ever 50 unexpected
IL. ] thought. to all save myself and
preached 70 PerSis a Dive right assy.
she always answercd sweetly. but an
noyed:
That would be lovely. dear-but
have to go TO the tailor
Or else she already was there and
rang her up in vain.
That tailor seemed to know.
Whei l arrived for lunch and found no
Persis. twas a foregone conclusion where
che was: and l needed not her breath
less information. when later she came
hurrying in. that the tailor had kept
her"
The tailor cut into our evenings. Tor
Persis went early to bed. and sat mel
ancholy and alone.
oh. its such q job to be fitted COM
planned Periss: vet I could see that she
was clarifying in the programme.
Il shall be so glad when I'm done with (
the tailor" protested PeTss: yet not for
worlds would she have curtailed his at
tentions
Persis was an angel. but she also was a
woman.
Did she srow inpatient with the tailor
because he kept her waiting. he dwelt 4
upo nthe exquisite success that he was 4
enabled To make of the suit. owing solely +
to her peculiarly artistic proportions-and i