The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-03-07
HER GENTLE
HINTS
II Took Him a Long
Time to Got Wiso.

"Ah?" she said, entering the room.
Are you ready?'
Yes" piped John picking up his
hat and rising TO his feet. I'm ready"
She put her black caracul coat on
one chair. her ermine boa on another,
her vanity bag on a third and herself
on fourth
Come" she said, 'I'n let you but
ton my gloves"
And as John comes awllwardly for
ward and starts on his appointed
task, let us carefully consider this
matter OF buttoning a. lady's gloves.
In the first place, She was seated and
John was bending over her danger
Gus position and most naturally TO he
relieved by kneeling on the floor at
her feet or sitting on the arm of her
chair. Then again, as everyone knows,
It Is not the easiest thing in the world
to button black button on pair of
black gloves at night, and John had
to bend over further and further while
she gave him tender little glances
from time TO time as though to en-
courage him and to see that he was
not growing discontinued with his
work. Further and further he bent
over, and more and more tender grew
her glances until at last he drew a
full breath and said:
''There,"
How nice you did IT," she whls.
pered Il don't know how to thank
you!" WV '+,t,a' ttr
"Oh, that's all right" he said.
And turning to her impedimen.a he
added:
Shall | help you with your coat?"
Il wish you'd do something else for
me first" she bashfully said. do
you mind, john"
What is it?" he asked first.
Il think--I don't know, but | think
that one of the buttons on the back
of my waist has come undone. Do you
mind, John?"
And as she turns around and re.
signs herself to him with a pretty 1T
tie air Of helpessnoss, let us give a
modicum of thought TO this somewhat
intricate subject as we'll In the first
place, every time he nearly had the
button where he wanted It, she drew
her shoulders forward a bit and he
had to start all over again. II was an
exceptionally pretty waist; a gold and
amethyst chain hung over the back of
her shoulders; string of pearls en-
circled her throat and ended in a 1T.
tie clasp at the back; the riot of her
back hair was partly confined by a
knubbly tortoise shell ornament and
various little curls threw themselves
around in an ecstacy whenever they
had a chance. Then. again, she kept
turning around 10 see how he was pro
crossing, and glancing at him over her
shoulder, and turning back quickly |
when she caught his eye, and putting
her head on one side and looking coy |
All very, very coy she looked. and
especially so when he murmured:
That's it,"
But her only response was to put
her head a little further on one side
and to look coyer than ever.
IT'S buttoned," he said.
"Tee-hee!" she giggled "Tee-hee
hee,
Now you can help with my coat"
And as he helps her with her coat
let us take thought together and re-
fleet upon this phase of the question,
too Helping a girl With her coat can
be divided into three stanzas: holding.
tucking in the sleeves. adjusting. So
in the first place. John held II. but it
was in vain that she tried TO find the
sleeves and at last John had to take
her hands and guide them into their
places. Next, she turned around. pink
and rosy. SO that John could tuck in
the sleeves of the waist Very pink
was Der face, and very rosy and very
close to Johns, but John only blinked
his eyes and when il came 10 the third
stanza he refused to sing at all and
left her to adjust the coat herself.
II over the shoulders and
pressing II in at the waist as though
she liked to do it herself and wouldn't
let John do 1t. even If he went down
on his knees and asked her with tears
in his eyes.
And now my boa she smiled.
He slung it around her neck In a
sheeuish manner hut IT seemed 70 her