The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-07

UNLOAD Your Aunt Nancy
WOES didn't seem to no
tee. 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
Gin induce to call me Nannette.
I take an interest in you for your IA
there sake and also because you ara
my namesake. know I ought to do
my duty BY you and shall,
That made me groan inwardly ana
wonder which OF. my many Imperfect
lions had attracted her notice. She
did not long leave me In doubt. L.,
Nancy. she said. you have tho
most extraordinary couture 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 hair7 Couldn't
you manage 70 compress 1t within rea,
.sonable. bounds2 II gives your head,
a size ridicnioqsiy disproporhonate 70
your body, Such growth OF hair Is
almost a deformity.'" !.
did you eyeri" calculated the
bosom friend s.o
There was a wicked twinkle in her
eye and a smile about her mouth. NJ,
eyes strayed ,involuntarily. to her owry
sparse locks. which were, twisted int,
| q hard knot at the back OF her head
II you VIII believe me, surmountin,
that .excrescence was the most mag
nidcent comb-real tortoise shell, sci
with. seed pearls and tiny diamonds
the most exquisite object you can ina
CINE"
How incongruous in that connec
toni" murmured the bosom friend.
Decidedly So" agreed Nannette
We'll. Aunt. Nancy kept harping upoI
my frightful growth. OF hair--on,
would imagine that ! was a ,monstros
lily, TO- hear her talk--unhl | had u,
admit that Il was not all my own,
do YOU mean to tell me that yol
wear false hair-Ta young girl lik,
your she cried. lifting her hands II
horror. {. That all those little pufa
.Gnd-a9d sausages and beautifully
waved locks are artincial? - sus
The marcel wave Is my own. l an
uwered sulkily, but the--sausages, al 4
Fou, call them, are false Why. Aunli
Nancy It is. the fashlon--everyb0d,
wears them m
! a most ridiculous fashion. SALE,
Aunt Nancy emphatically, and not ~,
all becoming. Why, my dear child, ID
you know that much Of the false haii
that is sold 10 from the heads of Chi
nesA crinpinals. many OF whom shavs
been executed for their crimes7 De
you not know that America completes
with France and other countries foj
this stuh7 To think OF the women Of
this enlightened country being willinI
10 make caricatures of themselves BY
wearing bushels OF hair from the heads |
Sf heather foreigners! And TO thinb |
that my own niece is among the mum,
bert"
"A trihing exaggeratlon on Aunt
Nancy's part" murmured the bosom
TREND. rs
"She grew quite warm on the sub.
ject," went on Nannette. Il believe |
she would have been holding forth |
yet II had not meekly submitted to |
her views and promised to moderate |
the size OF my head arrangement"
You promised that" exclaimed the |
bosom friend, incredubusly.
yes. and l don't know that l re-
greet It. either, especially since Charles
seems to consider II sensible idea.
When told him this afternoon what |
Aunt Nancy thought about II be said: |
That's about the size OF II, Nannett0. |
Wasn't your-colnure trine-er-ex-
aggeratedf"
Il wish could see that comb" OBJ |
served the bosom friend, somewhat |
irreleYanly.
"Yo0 shall" exclaimed Nannette,
exultantly. Behold" turning her |
head 1T is an heirloom In the family
and Aunt Nancy has handed It on TO
me. / do not believe that she would /
have trusted me With Il II had not
capitulated at tho psychological mo
nent."
1T was the very wisest thing you
eger did In all your life." declared the
bosom friend, cycling the comb enu
ously. And do not see but that your
hair looks at least as well as II did be-
fore"
walt until you see one N my new
hat" moaned Nannette. Its as big
a. = wagon wheel