The Huttig news., 1909-02-06

woes. didn't seem to no | tice. She sat down on the bed, just as socially as you might have done.
 have come to have a little talk with you, Nancy, she said. Nothing will induce to call me Nannette. I take an interest in you for your fa- ther's sake and also because you are my namesake. l know I ought to do my duty by you and I shall
 That made me groan inwardly and wonder which of my many imperfec- tions had attracted her notice. She did not long leave me in doubt
 Nancy, she said, you have the most extraordinary coiffure I have ever beheld upon a human being. How comes it 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 req size ridiculously disproportionate to your body. Such a growth of hair is almost deformity.'
 Did you ever!" calculated the bosom friend.
 There was wicked twinkle in her eye and smile about her mouth My eyes strayed involuntarily to her own sparse locks, which were twisted into hard knot at the back of her head If you will believe me, surmounting that exerescence was the most mag nificent comb-real tortoise shell, set with seed pearls and tiny diamonds the most exquisite object you can ima- zine"
 How incongruous in that connec- tion!a murmured the bosom friend
 Decidedly so," agreed Nannette Well, Aunt Nancy kept harping upon my frightful growth of hair-one would imagine that 1 was a monstros- ity, to hear her talk-until had to admit that it was not all my own. Do YOU mean to tell me that ysu wear false hair-a young girl like you?' she cried, lifting her hands in horror. That all those little puffs and-and sausages and beautifully waved locks are artificial?'
 ''The marcel wave is my own,' I an swered sulkily, but the-sausa ges. as you call them, are false. Why, Aunt Nancy, it is the fashion-everybody wears them
 "A most ridiculous fashion, said Aunt Nancy enphatically and not at all becoming. Why, my dear child, do you know that much of the false 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 competes with France and other countries for this stuff? 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 heathen foreigners. And to think that my own niece is among the mum ber.'"
 "A trifling exaggeration on Aunt Nancy's part" murmured the bosom friend.
 "She grew quite warm on the sub ject," went on Nannette. "I believe she would have been holding fortf yet if had not meekly submitted tt her views and promised to moderat, the size of my head arrangement"
 You promised that," exclaimed th' bosom friend, ineredulously.
 Yes, and I don't know that I re gret it, either, especially since Charles seems to consider it sensible idea When I told him this afternoon wha Aunt Nancy thought about it he said That's about the size of it, Nannette Wasn't your-coiffure a trifie-er-ex aggerated?'
 q wish I could see that comb" ob served the bosom friend, somewha irrelevantly.
 You shall" exclaimed Nannette ! exultantly. "Behold,' turning he head Tt is an heirloom in the famil. and Aunt Nancy has handed it on t, me. I do not believe that she woul, have trusted me with it if had no capitulated at the psychological mo ment.'
 "It was the very wisest thing yoi ever did in all your life" declared tn bosom friend. cycling the comb envi ous'y. And I do not see but that you hair looks at least as well as it did be fore.
 Wait until you see me in my ney hat." moaned Nannette. It's as bi as wagon wheel"