The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24

dear boy vi course yOuV Hcdt u
that he is engaged You haven'tg
Well, the fact has so thoroughly nlled
my horizon that | suppose | have got
into the habit of thinking everybody
else is absorbed in it. too. I'm just
heartbrOken about it.
YES. | was going to tell you about
the girl that poor Toms engaged to.
I'm so distressed about it. She's per-
fectly wonderful and charming, too,
I don't doubt, but, my dear, she's the
most superior creature that ever was
born, She knows everything. CTo
clerk Yes. that's very pretty, but
don't think it's quite what I want.
"You know it's to wear at the re-
ception that my sons fiancee's mother
is going to give to announce the en-
gagement, and I'm afraid that would
look to plain. | wonder how wolfe
would do. I'm fond of wolfe, but [
really don't know what is suitable for
the groom's mother. Nobody ever
pays any attention to the masculine
side of a wedding, anyway, but | sup
pose if | looked dowdy there'd be no
end of talk (To clerk Could you
show me some of those things quite
down at the other end? So nice OF
you.
There's no reason on earth why
everybody shouldn't be delighted. Her
family is verp prosperous and Tom is
quite able, young as he is, to set up a
very creditable establishment. I'm
so distressed about it. (To clerk
How much did you say that piece
was? Oh, dear, I'm sorry. 1t does
seem just what I want, but really |
don't feel that I can pay as much as
that.
when you count the making and
the trimming and everything, don't
you know, it mounts up so frightfully.
Yes, it's true that cheap materials are
the most expensive in the end, but
then when you have only so much
money to spend for a thing I don't
know what you're going to do.
why should I object to the mar
riage? My dear. don't for minute
imagine that | object How could I?
Tom says he's the luckiest and the
happiest man that ever was, and I'm
bound to believe him 1t does seem
so hard, though, to bring up a boy
through all kinds of experiences
measles and humps. and besides those
Tom had a perfectly terrible attack
of typhoid three years ago, and |
stayed with him day and night, and
nobody had any idea he'd live through
it-and then to have him marry some
perfectly strange girl that nobody
ever heard of and that speaks half a
dozen different languages! (TO clerk
Gould I look at that piece at the bot
tom of the shelf? That sort of pink
ish lavender I'm afraid it's going to
be an awful bother to you to get it,
but it does attract me so.
YES, indeed, l feel almost as sorry
for her as | do for myself Think Of
the poor creature saddled with a
mother-in-law who doesn't even know
her own language particularly well.
can just feel how that poor cultured
child will SILVER every time 1 open
my mouth.
Eyes. isn't that pretty? (To clerk
How much did you say? Well. I be-
lieve l could afford that I have some
lace that I could use and that will re-
duce the cost.
How nice it would be to be the
rides mother. She always seems to
wear gray satin and duchesse lace
1t must simplify things so greatly.
"Ethel!-that's her name, Ethel
Harcourt-knows how to cook! She
took domestic science. OF course.
can cook in a way, but l wouldn't
dare to ask anybody WHO didn't have
the digestion of an ostrich to eat the
things I make. Ethel asked me the
other day what l considered the most
hygienic way to make bread | felt
like a criminal when l told her that
| never had made any, but that l
would ask Eliza, the cook I have had
for the last 20 years, how she did it.
Ethel sighed compassionately.
''She was ready for college when
she was sixteen, aud Tom says she
simply had to fight the whole family
to get them to let her go then. How