The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-30

ly TO shop, From her first waking
moment to the instant when she closed
her eyes at night she was going 10 do
nothing but tear madly about from |
store to store. buying. matching. com.
pairing, ordering, charging and send
Ing home. She was to have no thought |
Of anything else. This she had beat. !
en- In upon our brains through letters
and telephone messages. Even taking
time to dine with US downtown was
for her great concession.
II found my sister the afternoon OF
the dinner. regretfully putting aside
her new hand-embroidered shantung
frock that knew she was absolutely
dying to wear somewhere. Also she
replaced her hat with the willow
plumes amid its tissue paper wrap
pings and resolutely kept her eyes
away from the fluffy evening wrap.
ave can't wear EN- she told me
dolefully, though firmly. How she
knew hid been holding similar rites
over my pink broadcloth and rose hat
don't know. We can't wear EN-!
Genevieve will have been shopping
all day of course. and be in her street
clothes and we don't want to make her
feel uncomfortable. II wouldn't do'
mot l agreed, sadly, II wouldn't.
Isn't It shame? suppose 1t means
tailor suits!'
YES said my sister with the light
Of martrydom in her eyes. And not
even lace waists. No human being
can wear lace waist to shop In. so
Genevieve probably will have on just
a tailored one ! shall wear my plain.
est wash waist and you do the same
and of course Wen wear our street
hats
80 we ROBBED ourselves for the sac.
rifice. II was real sacrifice. because
IL there is anything which is Joy
| on earth to me 1t is to get into my
best clothes and dine downtown In a
fashionable restaurant and know |
look as well as the rest Of EN-!
Maybe my sister said as we
skunk into the most exclusive cafe in
town where Genevieve and my sisters
husband and his brother were to join
us severally, maybe strangers see-
ing US will think we've just got into
town from of the train and of course
our trunks haven't come. We've got
to trust to luck that we don't run
across anybody we know! Horrors!
| There are the Plankingtons and that's
a real lace frock or I'll eat my hat!
I'd like to. anyhow! Hide behind this
pillar!'
I'VE did so. occupying the idle mo-
mepts in busting SCOT from each 9TH
er's noses. You see being In shop
ping garb, we didn't have any excuse
for ordering a taxicab to bring US
down and had taken the train from
Hyde Park. The lake wind besides
psppering us with scot had blown our
hair endwise. We weren't happy. Far
from It.
"The two men arrived next. OF
course. they weren't in evening
clothes either, in concession to the
spirit Of the occasion.
while we sat surveying one anoth.
er grumpily we saw huge touring
car spin up to the entrance and q
French fashion plate descend there
from. Oh, 1t is Genevieve. Of course
She had dutifully gone out to the
north shore suburb after her shopping
to prepare for the gala occasion! May
be the prince Of midas wife or daugh
ter might have rivaled her, but doubt
Il.
From the point of view Of an in
nocent nonparticipant In the occasion
Genevieve was a lifetime's expensive
dream, but from the inflnitesimal spo,
on earth which my sister and / occu
pied at that instant she was q Angsl
Of soorn pointed at our covering. tai
lor-garbed forms; The men--oh, wha'
DO men care whether they have or
low-cut waistcoats or not? They JUS
bsaned on Genevieve and forgot them
selves.
II must say that 0ensvieve behave<
beautifully to us. Everybody In tn
cafe looked at her 30 intently that
don't think anybody noticed vs.. Prob
ably the general impression was tina
W were her maids or secretaries.
That isn't all. What do you sup
yese those bsnishted men had. done
| oenething had been said about goinI
/ - Q vaudeville after dinner. That CAV
~ god Of nalign fate another chanc'
- get IN his work. :
II suppose" said the girl, gloomily
~>hAs II vs had logged ourselves on
asews wanted 70 Gsnevievs would hav
ast ~ In raincoat, . bicycle cal
~. a, injured exprsssion! That
/ wv I say n I we're heather II
nv Ne most e1icisnt incense burns
4 teeall md and keep Il working owe
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