Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-08-10

even grown a mustache, az I Always
wanted you to do"
Didn't know / was going 20 meet
you. or / might have spared my razor" Z"
II wish you'd known then. But fancy
your turning up here of all places! II
Is an extremely small world. There's
no doubt about that Well, Pat, as
we've each said at least twenty times
apiece how surprised we are to see one
another, suppose you come out onto the
piazza and tell me things. We shall
have crowd round US II we stay here
in the hall much longer"
My dear child. what thingsY" asked
C,ambeI laughing. i've been chatter
mig history 10 you ever since l turned
up AT the hotel"
The girl seated berseh IN cool cane
rocker and picked up a palm leaf fan.
Hundreds Of things. To begin with,
what are peopIe wearing In town just
nowY'
In London? Oh, frock coats rather
longer than ever and narrow stripe
trousers and toppers with just two
ponny worth OF curl in them, not
more
but / mean the women"
Fifteen yards to the skirt, and
they're beginning to drape them. The
fashionable deformity at present is ele-
phautiasis Of the biceps-I mean gigot
sleeves. They start at the ears and 30
down to the elbows some of them far
ther."
All" said Miss Kildare thoughtfully.
Il used TO have good arms. Not quite
as nice as Mabels though. But latterly
l haven't been ia places where evening
dress was used, by the way, do you
dance still%'
Keen on it as ever"
whats the waltz like Dow?"
'Capering on hot bricks, Heaps more
exercise TO the furIong People Kill
themselves at is much sooner"
Reverse ?''
Tn the north Of England. where they
oil dance well. they're like the Amer
leans and so each way alternately. In
London and the south, where most of
them waltz vilely, reversing is acel-
dN ma"
Il suppose said Miss kildare, with
her eyes meditatiVely following
bronze green humming bird which was
darting about a trumpet vine on the
piazza posts, y suppose we shall have
hop here tonight l shan't reverse,
and when my partners ask why shall
tell them it's tho latest thing. One al
ways likes 70 be as English as pos
sibLe Tell mo something else that it's
tony to dor
Read nasty novels written by won-
en- you wouldn't sit in the same room
with and then gush about them after
ward. That's q very fashionable
Amusement with the up to date young
women"
Ugh. Pat, don't be q pig. Besides,
that wouldn't suit my style a bit"
but why want 70 change, Elsie?
Don't you appreciate yourself as you
are at present? I'm sure other people
would"
That's blarney"
No said Cambel tudiCia1ly. "I think
It's ordinary fact"
Is IL really, though? / am glad. You
know, rye thought lately my present
stock in trade wouldn't pass muster
Ia any weather, and ride anything that
lis called a horse, and dance decently in
American fashion, but 1 can't do any
thing else, except perhaps talk, If that
counts"
Cambel laughed. You are refresh
ing he said. but why this inventory
Of stoCll2'
Because. Pat I'm wondering how l
shall get on IN England. I'm going
there this fall. Tn two and twenty,
you know. and I can do as / like, and
living in the back blocks is beginning
TO pail"
Going there by yourself?"
~No. I'm not quite so independent
as that The Van Liews, the people I'm
staying with here, spend the winter in
London. and they're going TO take me
with them"
And afterward you come back again
10 tho States ?"
(Continued Next Week.)