The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-25
The DreSsn.aker.

| Good mornin', Mis- Simmons. It's
nice overhead, but awful muddy
~alEin.' Yes. I'll take 'em off right here
| in the entry. Ny land, amt you done
up your work yet? It's all OF 3
o'clock!
rs this your goods layin' mere on
the machine? Say. now, this is a real
stylish pattern. 'Tain't exactly what
I'd a picked out myself but I sup
pose this plum color'd go with dark
complicated folks. That Alice blue
they're weaFin' now would've suited
you better, in my opinion, you're so
sandy. But l guess thisll not be so
bad, after it's made up. This yellow
trimmin' will kill your complexion.
though. Take lots o color to wear
yellow.
Remember Mis- Richards Sadie's
yellow dress [ made up JUS fore her
pa died? Land sakes, it had to be laid
away for whole year! The child
was ailin' all winter, and when she
wore it in the spring she looked as
II she'd been buried and dug up. Still,
mixed in real tasty with some of this
white lace, it mayn't look so on you.
rs these the buttons? They're
Wearin' skirts buttOned up on the side
real plain an close f1ttin,' but you'd
better have tucks. or a f10unce round
the bottow o yours cause the new
style don't look good on fat folks.
You want TO be slim and not have no
hips to wear what they call a sheath
skirt. This is one / got on. Mis-,
Beebe said in church las Sunday she
thought il real becomin' to me.
wore it on purpose this moTnin' so
you could bee why it wouldn't do to
cut yours this way. as long as
person hasn't got a stylish figure it
appears like the will o Providence,
and don't seems if there's any sense
in tTyin' to rig 'em up to look differ
ent than they're made
We'll. no, this pattern amt what
you might call real new, but it's the
one / cut your black alpaca by a year
ago last spring, and you allus said you
was partial to that dress. Oh. If
you're tired of il, I suppose | can find
somethin' else, but ! wish you'd told
me 'foTehand, so | wouldn't have to
lose such a sight O. time huntin.
around
Come over an look at this one
Ii does seem kind o. odd, but it's in
this months number, so it's sure to
be in style The pictures awful pref
ty, but she'll tall an kind O. thin,
so maybe a chunky person wouldn't
look like much Here's one. now. that
is umpire, an hangs sort o loose from
the aTmholes TO the ground. I got
that pattern, too. Oh, yes, you'll like
il after you've wore it some
III cut out on the dinin' room Ia
bic, soOn's you get it cleared off Don't
Mr.. Simmons object, havin' his break
fast so late? Goodness me, when my
man was Twin he'd JUS take on
somethin' awful if breakfast was after
o'clock. KEEP me on my feet morn
in noon an night. waitin' on that
man. Well, he's dead an gone. poor
soul, an I amt complainin' against
the ways of the Almighty.
q do declare, I believe you're fisshi-
er'n you was last summer. when 1
made you that spTigged calico you
wore so long, Your waist measure is
all of two inches bigger. 1t do beat
all how some folks keep putin on
weight that other'd give their eve teeth
for There's Hank Hiner's wife She's
too skinny for any moral use. You
can't tell whether she's a goin' or
a-comin' till you're close up. made
her a merino dress last Novem Der,
an / put enough cotton battin in TO
stun a sofy. an then she done nothin'
but complain bout how hot twas.