Sharp County record., 1909-09-03

ner Geneyieye is
our dearest friend
from out OF town and is visit
ing in north shore suburb
Her trip to Chicago was main.
ly to shop, From her first waking
moment to the instant when she closed
her eyes at night she was going to 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.
"I 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
pumes amid It's tussue paper wrap.
pings and resolutely kept her eyes
away from the fluffy evening wrap.
"'Wo can't wear EN- she told me
dolefully, though firmly. How she
knew I hed been holding similar rites
over my pink broadcloth and rose hat
! don't know, We can't wear em!
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 It wouldn't dop
MOI I agreed sadly 1t wouldn't.
Isn't It a 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, 50
Genevieve probably viii 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
so we robed ourselves for the sac.
rilce, It was a real sacrifice because
II there is anything which Is q Joy
on earth to me II Is 10 get into my
best clothes and dine downtown In
fashionable restaurant and know
look az well AZ the rest OF eml
Maybe my sister said as we
skunk into tho most exclusive cafe IN
town whore Geneyoye and my sisters
husband and his brother we're to Join
| ua severally, maybe strangers see.
ing us will think we've just got into
town from Off the train and Of course
our trunks haven't come. We've got
10 trust TO luck that wo don't run
across anybody we know Ilorrorsl
There are the plankingtons and that's
n real lace rrock or III eat my hiatt
I'd like TO, anyhow Hide behind this
pllarp
we did so, occupying The idle mo-
| monts In dusllng SCOT from onch 9th.
er's noses, You see, being in shop.
ping garb, we didn't have any excuse
for ordering a toxlcab to bring M
down and had taken the train from
Hyde Park The lake wind besides
pepperlng us with SCOT had blown our
hair ondwIse We weren't happy. Far
from e.
"rhe two men arrived next or
course, they weren't In evening
clothes either IN ooncoaslon to the
spirit Of The occasion,
while we aOt surveying ono anoth
er grumplly we saw huge touring
cer spin up to the entrance and a
Fronch fashion plate descend there.
from Oh II Ia Geneyieve, OF course.
She had dutlfuly gone out 10 the
north shore suburb after her shopping
TO prepare for The gala oceaslon May
be the prince Of lndla'a wife or d0ugh.
ter might have rlyaled her but doubt
H.
IRON Tho point " view Of nm In.
noccnt nonpartlcipant IN The oconeIon
Geneyleyo wNs lIfetmo'8 expensive
dream, but from the innnItosimol spot
on earth which my sister and I occu
pied at that instant she was n tlngor
Of BcOru pointed NJ our covering, tai.
lorgorbod forms, The men oh, what
DO men c0fo whether they have on
low'cut waIeteoots or not9 They luat
beaned ON Genoyleyo and forgot thom.
selves.
~ must aNy that Gcnoyleye behaved
beautifully 10 ua Everybody In Tho
cafe looked NJ her 20 lntenlly that
don't think anybody noticed ua, prob.
ably the general impression was that
we were her maids or secretaries,
"That isn't an What do You sup.
pose those benlghtod mon had dono7
Something had been aNd about going
70 u vaudeville after dinner. Thatgay
tho god Of mallgn fate another chance
to get IN his work.
" suppose" said the girl, goomily
that II we had toggod oureclvca out
es we wanted toOeucylove would have
met W. IN n raneoat bicycle cap
aud am injured eXpreeaion fhat'e
why ! say u I wore heather "a
buy the most efficient incense burner
! could hnd und Reep II WORKING over