Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-04-16

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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
have come to have a little talk
with you, Nancy. she said. Nothing
will induce TO call me Nannette
1 take an interest in you for your IA
theirs 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 a human being. How
comes it that slight young creature
like you should be possessed of such
an enormous head OF hair2 Couldn't
you manage to compress it within rea-
sonable bounds? II gives your head
a size ridiculously disproportionale to
your body Such a growth OF hair is
almost a 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 VIII believe me, surmounting
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 eonnec-
toni" murmured the bosom friend
Decidedly So. agreed Nannette.
We'll, Aunt Nancy kept harping upon
my frightful growth OF hair-one
would imagine that l was a monstros-
ity, to hear her talk-until | had to
admit that it was not all my own
. Do YOU mean 10 tell me that you
wear false hair-a young girl like
you?' she cried, lifting her hands in
horror That all those little pdffs,
and-and sausages and beautifully
locks are artifcial?'
The marcel wave is my own an
swered sulkily. but the-sausages, as
YOU call them. are false Why, Aunt
Nancy. it is the fashion-everybod
wears them.
"A most ridiculous fashion. said
Aunt Nancy emphatically. and not at
Ill becoming. Why, my dear child. do
you know that much of the false hair
hat is sold is from the heads of Chi I
iese criminals, many of whom have
)een executed for their crimes? Do (
Tou not know thai America completes
With France and other counties for .
his stuff2 To think of the women of
his enlightened country being willing
0 make oaricatures of themselves by
wearing bushels of hair from the heals
# heather foreigners And to fhfk
hat nay own niece is among the mum
er.''
"A trifing exaggeration on Aunt
'ancy's part. murmured the bosom
riend
She grew quite warm on the sub
eel, went on Nannette. = believe
he would have been holding forth
ct if had mol meekly submitted to
er views and promised to moderate
ie size of my head arrangement
You promised that" exclaimed The
osom friend. incredulously.
Yes. and ! don't know that re-
ret it either. especially since Charles /
sems TO consider it a sensible idea.
hen | told him this afternoon what
unt Nancy thought about il he said
hats about the size OF it. Nannette
'asn't youi-coirure a trile-er-ex-
,gesated2 2
Il wish | could see that comb OBJ !
rived the bosom friend. somewhat 4
releyantly
You shall exclaimed Nannette, /
Behold tGrning her B
ad II Is an heirloom iu the family s
ID Aunt Nancy has handed il on TO 5
e do not believe that she would Z
we trusted me with it If had not q
pitulated al the psychological mo &
anr s
IN was the very wisest thing YOU q
er did IN all your life. declared the 4
som friend cycling The comb envi- B
sly And J do not see but that your 4
ir looks al least as well as it did be- s.
-e4 e
Wait until you see me IN my new 81
- moaned Naanette. us as big a
wagon wheel q