The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-10

Ifse% meet Geneyieve
M downtown for din
ner Genevieve Is
our dearest friend
from out Of town and is visit.
ing in north shore suburb.
Her trip to Chicago was main.
y to shop From her first waking
moment 70 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. oom.
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 10 dine with lis downtown was
for her a great concession.
= found my sister the afternoon Of
the dinner, regretfully putting aside
her new hand-embroidered shantune
frock that I knew she was absolutely
dying to wear somewhere. Also she
replaced her hat with the willow
plumes amid its tussue paper wrap.
pings and resolutely kept her eyes
away from the fluffy evening wrap.
We can't wear EN-. she told me
doIefuly, though firmly. How she
knew he'd been holding similar rites
over my pink broadeloth and rose hat
/ don't know I'VE can't wear 'eml
Genevieye will have been shopping
all day or course. and be In her street
clothes and we don't want to make her
feel uncomfortable. It wouldn't dot.
/" MOI / agreed, sadly. it wouldn't
Isn't il shame2 suppose it means
tailor suitsl
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 ia, 50
Genevieye 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.
SO we robed ourselves for the sac
rifice. II was real sacrifice. because
If there is anything which Is 4 Joy
on earth to me it is to get into my
best clothes and dine downtown in
fashionable restaurant and know
look as well as the rest Of emf
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 rs viii think we've lust got into
town from off 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 hatl
I'd like to, anyhow! Hide behind this
pillar!'
We did so. occupying the idle mo-
ments in dusting scot from each 9TH
er's noses. You see, being in shop
ping garb. we didn't have any excuse
for ordering taSicab to bring us
down and had taken the train from
Hyde Park The lake wind besides
peppering 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 a huge touring /
car spin up to the entrance and a
French fashion plate descend there |
from Oh, it is Genevieve. Of course |
She had dutifully gone out to TIE |
north shore suburb after her shopping \
to prepare for the gala OCCASION May /
be the prince Of Indias wife or daugh I
ter might have rivaled her, but doubt
It.
From the point Of view Of an in
nocent nonparticipanl in the occasion
GeneYieve was a lifetime's expensive
dream. but from the infnltesimai spot
on eartls which my sister and I 0ccu
pied at that instant she was finger \
81 scorn pointed at our covering. tai K
forms; The men oh. what
do men care whether they have on
iow-cut waistcoats or notg They iuat
Deamed on Genevieve and forgot them.
selves.
II must say that Genevieve behaved
beautifully 70 MS. Everybody in the
rafe looked at her SO intently that I
iont think anybody noticed Us. Prob
ably the general Impression was that
we were her maids or secretariea
''That isn't all What do you SUP
pose those benighted men lad d0nef
had been said ABOUT going
% a vaudeviile after dinner That gave
he god Of malign fate another chance
10 get in his work.
= suppose" said the girl gloomlly
that il we had logged ourselves or.
IS we wanted ioGanevieve would have
net US IN a raincoat. a bicycle cap
md an injured expression. Thats
ehy J say il I were a heather I'd
,uy the most efficient Incense burner