Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-12-09

"Unload Your Aunt Nancy
Woes. didn't seem to no
tice she sat down on the bed. just
as socially as you might have done.
l have come To have little talk
with YOU. Nancy. she said. Nothing
will induce to Cal me Nannette.
i take an interest in you for your IA
Tiers sake and also because you are
my namesake. know | ought TO do
my duty by you and | shall.
That made me groan inwardly and
wonder which of my many imperfec
tons had attracted her notice. She
did not long leave me in doubt.
Nancy. she said. YOU have the
most extraordinary couture | have
ever beheld upon human being How
comes II that a slight young creature
like you should be possessed Of such
an enormous head of hair? Couldn't
YOU manage TO compress it within rea
sonable bounds? il gives your head
size ridiculouSly disprOr0rtionate to
your body. Such growth of hair Is
almost a defOrmity.
Did YOU ever calculated the
bosom friend.
There was a wicked twinkle in her
eye and a smile ahnuI her mouth. My
eyes strayed involuntarily to her own
srarse locks, which were twisted into
hard knot at the back of her head
that excrescence was the most mag
nificent comb-real tortoise shell, set
with seed pearls and Tiny diamonds
the most exquisite object YOU can ina
CINE"
How incongruoUS in that connec-
ton" murmured the bosom friend.
Decidedly SO, agreed Eannette.
Well Aunt Nancy kept harpins upon
my frightful growth of hair-one
would imagine that l was monstros-
ity, TO hear her talk-until | had to
admit that 1t was not all my own.
wear false ha!r--a young girl like
you" she cried. lifting her hands in
horror That all those little putfs.
and-and sauSageS and beautifully
waved locks are artificia!?'
The marcel wave is my own l an
swered sulkily. but the-saussges. as
you call them. are false. Why. Aunt
Nancy. it is The fashion-everybody
wears them.
"A most ridiculous fashion, said
Aunt Nancy emphatically. and not at
all becoming Why. my dear child. do
b,, ~ ho folr hair
that is sold is from the heads Of Chi
nese criminals. many Of whom have
been executed for their crimes? Do
you not know that America completes
with France and other countries for
this stun? To think OF the women OF
this enlightened country being willing
TO make caricatures of themselves by
wearing bushels Of hair from the heads
of heather foreigners, And to think
that my own niece Is among the num-
beT,"
a trifiing e1aggeration on Aunt
Nancy's part. nurmured the bosom
friend
She grew quite warm on the sub
iect." went on Nannet;e. Il believe
she would have been holding forth
yet II I had not meekly submitted to
her views and promised to moderate
the size Of my head arrangement
You promised that" exclaimed the
bosom friend incredulousiy.
Yes. and ! don't know that re-
greet il. either. especially since Charles
seems 10 consider 1t q sensible idea.
When told him this afternoon what
Aunt Nancy thought about II he said:
That's about the size Of IL, Nannette.
Wasn't your-coiifure a tTihe-er-ex-
agge-a,ed7
Il wish I could see that comb. OBJ
irreievantly
You shall, exclaimed Nannette.
exu!tantly 'Eehold!" turning her
head. 1t is an heirloom in the family
and Aunt Nancy has handed IL on to
NE. ! do not believe that she would
have trusted me with IL II had not
capItulated al the psychological mo
ment
1t vas the very wisest thing You
ever did in all your life" declared the
bosom friend cycling the comb envi'
ou.iy And | do not see but that your
hair looks al least as well as IL did D.
fore.
Wait until YOU see me IN my new
hat nIosned Nanaette. Its as big
as q wagon wheel"