The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-12-27
WOES or BRIDE ELECT

By BENNETT JOHNSON.

For mercy's sake" cried the girl in
the new fall suit, when did the last
ship get IN from Paris? Where did
you get the clothes? never saw any.
thing so gorgeous ia eli my life! Your
hat Is dream. and that veil is an.
other You are maryell What for,
especially
The other young woman smiled com.
placently. do / strike you that way yy7
she inquired III gratifed tones. Then
must be all right, for that is pre-
cisely the effect | intended to pro.
duce- II It had been a shade less !
should have considered my toilet a
failure / wanted to make It impos-
gible for any one to think Of me az
anything but the most fashionable
thing on EARTH"
Well you've done II. declared the
girl in the new fall suit. "Why?"
You know" explained the gor-
ssously appareled one. that Harry's
family had never met me before we
we're engaged. They lived miles away
across town. After we were engaged
Harry said they were all coming to
call on me Naturally | was anxious
TO make a good impression"
Wen, that was easy" said her
friend. ut never Is what one would
call hard work to look at youl"
Watt" said the fashionable one
in hollow tones For two weeks /
went ar3und from breakfast time till
the lights were out at night, 50 dressed
up that nobody dreamed Of asking me
to dust the living room, as usual, or do
anything but ornament the place.
Then a bushel Of tomatoes came the
day mother had 70 10 to luncheon Go
onl' told her, heroleally. 7 Will
make the chill sauce and the catch
upp
we never leave such things to the
cook. In fact, to get rid OF the cook
told her to take the afternoon OF. 80
that / would have a clear field In the
kitchen suppose there are won
derful individuals who can work up a
bushei Of tomatoes while attired Ia q
neat blue serge with white collar and
cuffs, Ike the angelic persons we see
in the pictures. and emerge unrufied.
But when ! tac,1e anything like
tomatoes / get into it up to my elbows.
There were tomatoes on the walls.
and tomatoes spattered IN my hair
and over my face and my apron was
q sight.
Everything on the stove started
boiling at once and I was hot and flus-
trated when the bell rang.
Let il ringl said to myself. It
rang again. You Ahow there Is some.
thing intensely human and personal
about a doorSell that you aren't an.
swering. Il seems SO accusing and re.
proaehful Just as said for the fourth
time Let It ring I dropped a presery.
Ing spoon splash into the catcbup and
rushed madly to the door.
q had remembered that the dress.
maker was to send home my dress
that afternoon for the dance that
night wrenehed open the front
door 70 catch the figure descending
the steps.
eOh. yes, it was Harry's mother,
dear. It couldn't have been any one
else on earth. you know. There she
stood gazing at her daughter.in-law.
elect. who resembled at that moment
a cross between an inebriated cook
and d squashed tomato Harrys moth
or is ore Of those neat, perfect wom-
en-. 10 whom a hair cut Of place is a
perfectly unexplalnable phenomenon.
know size burst into tears at her
sons fate the instant she withdrew
from my presence And the tomato
catchup all burned up while / was sit.
TING IN the best parlor chair smear
ing Il sith tomatoes and acting as
though was quite happy
"The men came @ clean out the
furnace the other day end mother aud
took the aame time to clean the
eforeroom You know what store
foeia does 10 you il puts oobwebs IN
your hair and gFimos yen Rith dgst,