Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-21
SHE COMES TO AUGUSTA
Baths Red Headed Girl Tells Of Visit
ING the Governors Ball.

Ever since it was established over a
year ago the Bath Anvil has conducted
very bright department known as
"Our Corner Grocery" and one Of it's
chief characters, certainly the most at
tractive one to figure in this depart
ment, has been the Red Headed Girl
who has never failed to come into the
| grocery to brighten things up by her
presence and say things clever enough
to be quoted and remembered outside.
Every week she appears in an elabor-
ate new costume which is always
described in detail and with painstak-
ing care by the versatile genius who
| conducts this department. The Red
Headed Girl, her costumes and her
taking ways have become very popular
throughout the State, and deservedly
SO. 1t was the natural thing for the
| Red Headed Girl to come to Augusta
ception. and in the latest issue of the
Anvil her account Of her visit in made
a prominent feature in the Corner
Grocery department. This is the way
it reads and we are sure it will be of
interest to Augusta people.
The Girl With the Titan Hair
swung the door open and bobbed in as
if she had springs in her feet. Indeed
she has-the springs of the vitality and
energy of any well fed. we'll groomed,
healthy Maine girl-and with her
| sparkling gray eyes and rosy cheeks.
| so cosy and comfortable and magnetic
did she look in her warm squirrel pony
coat and muff and hear gear, for her
! hat was likewise of gray squirrel. the
' left size of it being banded about with
a thick white ostrich plume-and so
neat in her simple black heavy Panama
| skirt with it's box pleats and. at the
bottom, row Of small diamonds formed
out of tiny yellow silk covered buttons
that every body, women as we'll as
| men who see her in that snug rig, feels
like snatching her up and giving her a
hearty hug!
-Four dozen clothespins, this trip.
Jonathan, please" said the Girl, as she
bobbed down the south aisle to where,
on the opposite side of the counter, the
, Handsome Slender Clerk was counting
out from a sly hiding place that one
would never suspect, six really newly
i laid and beautifully tinted brown eggs
every day fresh eggs from the Western
prairieS being out in the regular egg
box in plain view.
"Surely, Miss Red Headed Girl. you
don't manipulate clOthespins yourself:
do you?" queried the Rosy Checked
/ Proprietor. who had resumed bis perch
, on the high desk stool.
Indeed 1 do" returned the pretty
Maiden, "our girl and I always hang
, out and take in the clothes and she
was sick last Monday and Mother and
! did the whole washing ourselves. On
I'm no new dress model in a dry goods
! store" she added with a bright glance
at the Handsome Slender Clerk that
: set his heart to humping. "Tve got no
patience" she went on. with those
girls who are always saying they cant
bear housework. like it..
| No politician. leastwise no Bath pcli-
tician, Republican, Democratic, or
Bunch Man, ever let fall so naiveiy and
vet artfully a more diplomatic re-
! mark, But she was so innocent of
! any intention-well Bath young ladies
in their teens often know thing or
| two themselves!
How'd you like tn Orgusty Recep-
tom" asked the Rosy Checked Pro-
prietor.
1T was just too lovely for any
thing. replied the Maiden. brighten
/ ing. if such a thing were possible. over
! the subject mentioned. 1t was my
4 first Governors Shake-You. you know.
and Augustus beautiful City nail WIN
| it's big 'lectroliers, canvas covered fo"r'
walls festooned and paneled with buHt-
, ing, fir trimmed stage, human gardens
| of pretty women banking the balconies
the crush of the crowd pretty women.
stunning glad rags of the ladies dane
ing, the gold lace and spangles and the
splendid music-Oh. Mr.. Rosy Checked
Proprietor" exclaimed the Gerl IN
ecstacy. cit was splendid, almost equal
! to a Hyde Guards Ball in the Ala
media here in Bath"
what did you wear" inquired the
Handsome Slender Clerk, trifle mo-
rosely.
ooh. had a very simple little frock
4; OF robins egg blue gros grain silk. cut
Princcsse with yoke of some lace made
by real Austrian nuns and slashed ell
,, bow sleeves. Near the bottom at the
I'LL iduu SIuc VI Tic shiI Aioiil SoiC,
I'd painted a big red rose and over the
silk I wore. draped. an overdress Of
East Indian grass cloth with narrow
lace insertion on the left side down
from the waist. For real posies 1 had
a big bunch of lilies-of-the-valley. l
didn't wear any jewelry or old junk Of
, any kind. was the real thing in red,
white and blue. and the Governor and
Mayor Plaisted both said they didn't
blame the Anvil man for writing nice
things of yours truly"
Ibid they really know you were the
! Red Headed Grip" asked Jonathan.
"Deed they did," that Maiden an
swered. land they introduced me to
everybody and Mayor Plaisted Is just
lovely. only l didn't believe half what
, he said. and Mr.. Byron Boyd intro
duced me to the handsomest Colonel on
the Staff and made mess Of it by
asking him what band he belonged to.
My, but General Grant never had half
the trimmings those Governors soldiers