Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
WOES OF BRIDE-ELECT
BY BENNETT JOHNSON.

ship get In from Paris? Where dix
you get the clothes? | never saw any
thing so gorgeous in all my life! You
hat is dream. and that veil is an
other You are a marveIl What for
especially"
The other young woman smiled com
placently. DO 7 strike you that way r
she inquired in gratlfed tones "Ther
l must be all right, for, that is pre-
cisely the effect | intended to pro
duce. II 1t had been a shade less
should have considered my toilet g
failure! / wanted to make 1t impos
sible for any one to think of me az
anything but the most fashionable
thing on earth!"
We'll, you've done IT," declared the
girl in the new fall suit. "Why?"
you know" explained the gor
geously appareled one, that Harry q
family had never met me before we
were engaged. They lived miles away
across town. After we were engaged
Harry said they were all coming Ia
call on me. Naturally | was anxioua
to make good impression"
well, that was easy" said her
friend. at never is what one would
call hard work to look at you"
Waltz" said the fashionable one
In hollow tones. For two weeks !
went around from breakfast time tin
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 to go to luncheon. Go
on!' l told her, heroically. I will
make the chilli sauce and the catch.
up!'
1--WE never leave such things to the
cook. In fact, to get rid OF the cook
told her to take the afternoon of, so
that would have clear field in the
kitchen. suppose there are won
derful individuals who can work up a
bushel of tomatoes while attired in a
neat blue serge with white collar and
cuffs, like the angelic persons we see
in the pictures, and emerge unruffied.
But when | tackle anything like
tomatoes get into 1t up to my elbows.
Z There were tomatoes on the walls,
and tomatoes spattered in my hair
and over my face and my apron was
a sight.
Everything on the stove started
boiling at once and was not and hus.
trated when the bell rang.
Let 1t ring!' said to myself II
rang again. You know there Is some.
thing intensely human and personal
about doorbell that you aren't an.
swering. 1t seems 30 accusing and re
proachful Just as said for the fourth
time Let 1t ring dropped preserv.
ing spoon splash into the catchup and
rsshed madly to the door.
Il had remembered that the dress
maker was to send home my dress
that afternoon for the dance that
night, wrenched open the front
door to catch the figure descending
the steps.
"Oh, yea, II was Harry's mother,
dear. 1t couldn't have been any one
else on earth, you know. There she
stood gazing at her daughter-inlaw-
elect, who resembled at that moment
a cross between an inebriated cook
and squashed tomato Harry's moth
er is one Of those neat, perfect WON
en-, to whom a hair out Of place ia a
perfectly unexplainable phenomenon.
know she burst into tears at her
sons fate the instant she withdrew
from my presence. And the tomato
catchup all burned up while I was sit
ting in the best parlor chair smear
ing II with tomatoes and acting az
though I was quite happy.
The men came 70 clean out the
furnace the other day, and mother and
took the same time to clean the
storeroom. You know what store
room does to you--it puts cobwebs In
your hair and grimes you with dust.
and you get SCOT on your nose and
wear the gown that is worse than
your worst one. When the BEN rang
this time-it being the maids day out
mother said. Oh, botheri That
must be Mrs. Phipps for the sewing
society stuff Do run up and hand
her the bundle left in the front
haIl,'
Il ran. incidentally tambllng over
the furnace mans litter and putting
ny hands into 2 basket Of soot and
ashes, which busted Of on my apron
az went Yes. Il was Harry's mar
rfed sister. who takes tao hours every
day TO dress and hyDksn2tss her
name.
r viii say nothing Of the day Harry
ne 70 a cousin Of his whom
We met By chance. when II had been T
raining and I had no umbrella. You
know what NY hair looks Ike when
e gets dznD-eIac1ly LIE straggly
shoe lscest
Nor viii mention the Sine met
HaTy's younger sister. II was ia .
beauty pzrlor. where I had ny hair
pulled back from ny eozntenance and
coId cream all over ny face. Are yog
able % imagine me smiling ia self
possessed way ard saying 50 glad 70
meet you, At laser
Well am now waiting for the
.sxi which is 20 bear ne IN al ny
present spIe16or % make roz1s Of
calls On mother. married slater. yoEnz-
r sister and cozsIz. DO yoz blame
ue2v
Mercy zot7 szfd her frsezd. But
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