The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-06
LEARNING BY
EXPERIENCE

Usually there is no real pleasure in
going away" sighed Miss Virgins.
THE clothes problem is SO great it off
sets the pleasure"
You ought not to complain" said
her friend You always have pretty
things"
1T isn't that" said Miss Virgins.
1T is that l always have the wrong
things. 1t has happened SO many
times that 1 am clean discouraged.
You see, went south a couple of years
ago and almost froze l had taken
a lot of thin things with me and all
the while I was there the temperature
never went above so. l had to stay
In the house with my coat on while
waited for the clothes I had tele-
graphed for.
1T was satisfactory when you went
south this year. I'm sure" said the
friend
Il took all my heavy things this
year" replied Miss Virgins. They had
| been having cold days, but as soon as
[ arrived the temperature rose to sum-
mer heat and l melted. There was no
use telegraphlng home, for there wasn't
a thing left here that was worth look
ing at l had to invest in ready-made
dresses at winter resort prices. drew
ahead on my allowance so far that
I've got to economic all summer"
You have those things now to take
with you this summer said her
friend ,consolingly. That must be
a relief"
They'll be oId-fashioned by the
end of the season." complained Miss
Virgins. Besides, don't know what
sort of place I am going to. Jean
said it is a bungalow, but that doesn't
tell me anything.
Two summers ago I was invited up
to Mrs. Dryers to camp in the north
woods" went on Miss Virgins. THAT
was the way she put 1t in her note.
She said it was most informal place,
where they did as they pleased. So l
took a lot Of old clothes, and a walk
ing skirt and was content until I saw
the others. The camp was the swell
est kind of bungalow and everybody
wore evening dress at dinner, while I
appeared every day in a shirt waist
But l stuck it out"
| Where were you last summer?
Didn't you like 1t there?"
Miss Virgins laughed. my Ill
luck followed me there" she said. 81
knew Alice always had everything as
perfect as it could possibly be, so
took particular pains with everything I
had. / was to be a week with her and
[ arrived with suitcase in which were
a shirt waist and white wool skirt.
These put right on and wasn't bit
careful about keeping them clean, ex-
pecting my trunk to arrive to help me
out. There was dance the second
evening, but my trunk hadn't come, SO
had to wear the same skirt and
waist. The day after there was a pic
mic. at the end of which my costume
was too soiled to consider I sent the
skirt to the cleaner and the waist to
laundry while I sat around in a XII
mono In my room OF wore my travel
ing dress, which was insufferably
warm
That trunk never came until I
reached Anita's, where 1t wasn't need
ed. Anita was crazy over fishing, and
I ruined two walking skirts, but did
not put on single summer gown or
evening dress till got to New York"
How was it in New York;"
Worse" said Miss Virgins, dole
fully. It rained every single minute
and that lovely hat of mine was al.
most ruined
Not the one with the pansies on?'
THE same" said Miss Virgins.
Then when got up into the White
mountains / hadn't a thing worth
looking at except few summer
dresses. By that time it was colder
than Greenland and l came home two
weeks earlier than had planned in or
DER to get warm and to be where /
didn't care what had on. My whole
summer, like all my jaunts at any sea-
son, was spoiled by constant thinking
about clothes"
What are you going to do this
year?" asked her friend Something
desperate?"
I'm taking two trunks" said Miss
Virgins. In one 1 am carrying all
my heavy clothes. including my furs,
for I'm found will not sit with a red
nose and blue lips anywhere to please
anybody. In there, too, I've put my
rough-and-ready things to use when l
go with the picnic and fishing crowds.
In the other are my thinnest and pref,
test summer clothes and evening
dresses, with all the necessary extras.
In my suitcame I am taking fan, a
muff1er, fancy shirt, a good waist, 8
one-piece dress, two shirt waists. a
folding umbrella, cold cream for sun.
burn and two boxes of medicine for
colds"
you are prepared for the worst?"
II am going to have the best time
/ ever had" averred Miss Virgins. 81
intend to be ready to go in for any