The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-11
A DISSERTATION ON MANS
 TASTE IN BATH ROBES
Unsuspecting ''Wifey Goes Ashoppng for Hubby the Haberdasher Said-Latest Importations- -Slck1sh Looking Yellow, Indefinite and Insipid With Those
 Insane Purple Looking Hieroglyphics
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

| But we can't" said Mrs. Wife-y. l Hubby has a birthday and l want thls for a birthday gift"
 Then suppose you look at this one, Madame" said the patient clerk. Tt has hood which is a great advantage "Why?" demanded Anne so suddenly that the man nearly jumped out of his skin.
 "Well-er-er-, our best models" he stammered, have hoods, and-and"-- Lets go" said Mrs. Wife-y. If this is the assortment. then we'd best be look ing elsewhere. If by any chance 1 sent one of these nightmares home to Jack I'd never hear the last of it
 Strange to say, at every Haberdasher' s that they went to. each garment in the Bath Robe line seemed crazier and more weird looking than the other. They got worse instead of better. Joseph's coat of many colors would have looked a sober drab compared with the majority of them.
 And no one knows WHY the Hood.' said Anne.
 Its as mysterious as the immense tassels, isn't it?" asked Mrs wife-y.
 The tassels might be useful--as weapons Most of them are as bulky and heavy as Policeman's stick" said Anne.
 
 by the yard and make Jack a Bath Robe?" sighed Anne.
 We could-but we won't declared Mrs Wife-y. T will never sew myself to death when I can buy things ready made. So l guess as we can't find any thing respectable looking. we may as well go on. Jack will have to go on wearing the same old Bath Robe he has. It has reached the 'thread-y' afoo I Ioax ft~ efer ,1I tI. floor as he wends his way bathroom ward, and ufeess we buy one of these awful things, which the Haberdasher advises us that nice, civilized men all over town are wearing, he will have to stick to the old one he has"
 The two girls at luncheon that day reported to Jack the result of their shopping expedition.
 Never mind" he said to his wife, |'I'll go myself, tomorrow. and select my own birthday present"
 True to his word, he went-and the next evening at dinner he announced that he had been most successrui.
 What color did you get, Jack ?' asked his wife, with great curiosity
 Why, just one of those quiet, sub dued indefinite, indeterminate things; not much of any color or pattern. In ttaSAt. NCi iiOutSlt anu 1 III sure you will approve. It will be de- livered tomorrow morning"
 The next morning Mrs. wife-y teie- phoned to her friend AnRe:
 Do run In and see Jacks new Bath Robe"
 No sooner was the invitation ex- tended than it was accepted.
 Spreading out the bath robe on the table, Mrs. Wife-y said:
 Now what do you think Jack told me? He said that he had no trouble whatever in selecting this one He said that he believed Statesmen had way of deceiying trusting women about such things He said he bought it the very first moment he set his eyes on 1t. He said he had never seen more beautiful collection of bath robes in all his life"
 Anne giggled.
 Mrs. Wife-y giggled, too.
 It was one of those sickish looking yellow affairs, with insane purplehiero- glyphics decorating It's surface
 This was his taste in Bath Robes and as he had to wear it-well, the joke was certainly "on him." and the girls didn't care.