Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-08-15
CHAPTER XVI.
SUBJECTS FOR MATR1MoNY.

MISS Kildare gave a Shrug OF her
shoulders. YES" she said. II suppose
1t Is a different me. I've got my hair
done up and longer skirts and all the
rest OF 1t. In fact. like the young per-
son In the book. I've growed. But l
don't see that you've altered much, ex-
oept that you've just a tiny-iny bit
crowsfooty about the eyes. You haven't
even grown a mustache. as I always
wanted you to do"
Didn't know l was going to meet
you. or l might have spared my razor
Il wish you'd known then. But fancy
your turning up here of all places! 1t
Is an extremely s1na world. There's
no doubt about that. Well, Pat. as
We've each a at least twenty times
apiece how surprised we are to see n
another. suppose you come out onto the
piazza and tell me things. We shall
have a crowd round US if we stay here
IN the hall much longer"
My dear child. what things?" asked
Cainbel, laughing. i've been chatter
ing history to you ever since l turned
up at the hotel"
n girl seated herself in a cool cane
recker and picked up a palm leaf fan.
Hundreds Of things. To begin with.
what are people wearing in town just
| noW?'
I'm London? Oh. frock coats rather
longer than ever and narrow stripe
OAN SORPCio Win just IWOs
penny worth OF curl in them, not
more"
But I mean the women"
Fifteen yards to the skirt. and
they're beginning to drape them. The
fashionable deformity at present is ele.
pIantiasis OF the btceps-I mean gigot
sleeves. They start at the ears and go
down TO he elbows; some OF them far.
ther."
"Ah," said Miss Kildare thouKhtfully.
I used to have good rms. Not quite
as nice as Mabel's though. But latterly
! haven't been in places where evening
dress was used. BY the way, do you
dance still:"
Keen on it as ever"
What's the waltz like now?"
.Capering on hot bricks. Heaps moro
exercise to the furlong. People kill
themselves at is much sooner"
"Reverse?"
I'm the north of England, where they
all dance we'll. they're like the Amer
leans and go each way alternately. In
London n the south, where most of
them waltz vilely. reversing is acel-
DANA"
Il suppose" said Miss Kildare, with
her eyes m~editatively following a
bronze green humnling bird which was
darting about a trumpet vine on the
piazza posts. Il suppose we shall have
q mop here tonight. I shan't reverse,
when my partners ask why I shall
tell them It's h latest thing. One al
ways likes to be as English as pos
sible. Tell me something else that it's
tony to dog"
Read nasty novels written by WON.
en- you wouldn't sit in the same room
with and then gush about them after.
wasd. That's a very fashionable
amusement with the up to date young
ugh. Pat. don't be a Dig. Besides.
that wouldn't suit my style q bit"
But why want to change. Elsie?
Don't you appreciate yourself as vor
are at present? I'm sure other people
NO." said Cambel judicially. II think
It's ordinary fact"
Is 1t really. though? I am glad. You
know. I've thought lately my present
stock In trade wouldn't pass muster
outside Florida. I can handle a boat
N any weather. n ride anything that
= called a horse. and dance decently In
American fashion. but I can't do any,
thing else. except perhaps talk. IL that
Cambel laughed. you are refresh.
ins." n said. But why this inventory
Because. Pat, I'm wondering how I
shail get on I'm England. I'm Eoine
there this fail. I'm two and twenty
yeu know. and I can do az / like. and
hvtsrE IN the back blocks Is beginning
Going there BY y~ourseif."
nc. I'm not quite % i-ndenendant
3 that. The Van Lisws. the,people I'm
eteytng With here. spead che winter in
toadon. q they're going = take me
~.Aa&aknswast ytu back ssxsn
% IL 0tates?"
tcsssi.sss Next Week.