The Cairo bulletin., 1911-12-22
NJ Cause
For Alarm

y -htSs 0iACuEStFIY WIZ A38 Uo34 DAbT
ting In an attitude Of detected -
iwilderment In front Of ! pile of silks
iof various colors and descriptions.
suddenly rises and piucka her friend
Mrs. Palmer from out Of the passing
ithrong- She drags her victim back
with her to the silk counterl
/ Mrs Winchester NY dear. I'm 49,
glad to see you that I could fall Oh
your neck and weep. You've amply
got to select a gown for me. Really
I've been through 50 much the iass
two weeks that I'm not capable Of 80
llecting q dish towel, even II that
would serve the present purpose,
which II won't.
ITS all on account OK Tom. poor.
dear boy! OF course you've heard
that he IL engaged. You haven't.
Wen. the fact has so thoroughly filed
my horizon that ! suppose have got
into the habit Of thinking everybody
else II absorbed In It, too. I'm Just
ikeartbroken about II. 4
Yes. was going to ten you about
the girl that poor Toms engaged to.
I'm so distressed about II. She's per-
fectly wonderful and charming, too.
i don't doubt, hut. my dear. shes the
most superior creature that ever was
born! she knows everything ITO
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. I wonder how wolfe
would do. I'm fond Of wolfe. but I
really don't know what IL suitable for
the grcom's mother. Nobody ever
pays any attention to the masculine
side of wedding anyway, but sup
pose X looked dowdy there'd be no
end OF talk ITO clerk Could you
show me some Of those things quite
down at the other endl So nice OF
you.
There's no reason ON earth Why
everybody shouldn't be delighted. Her
family Is verp prosperous and Tom ID
quite able. young as he Is, TO set up a
very creditable establishment I'm
so distressed about II. (To clerk)
How much did you say that piece
was? Oh, dear. I'm sorry. X does
seem Just what | want but really I
don't feel that can pay az much a.
that. s.s..,.,
when you count the making and
the trimming and everything. don't
you know. II mounts up so frlghtfully.
Yes. It's true that cheap materials are
the most expensive in the end. but
then when you have emily SO much
money to spend for thing I don't
know what you're going to do.
why snouia / OBJECT 10 the mar
rlage7 My dear. don't for minute
Imagine that | object How could II
Tom says he's the lueEiest and the
happiest man that ever was. and I'm
bound to believe him II does seem
so hard, though. to bring up boy
through all kinds OF experiences
measles and humps, and besides those
Tom had 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 q
daGen different languages! ITO clerk
Could 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 II.
but II does attract me so.
Yes. indeed. l feel almost az sorry
for her as do for myself Think OF
the poor creature saddled with q
motber.in-law who doesn't even know
her own language particularly well. q
can just feel how that poor cultured
child will SILVER every time open
my mouth.
"Yes. isn't that pretty7 Ito clerk)i
How much did you sayf Well. be-
lieve | could afford that. I have some
lace that | could use and that viii re-
duce the cost.
How nice II would be to be the
brides mother. she always seems to
wear gray satin and duchesse lace.
It must simplify things so greatly.
! "Ethel!-that's her name, Ethel
Harcourt--knows how 10 cook! She