The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-08
After the
Wedding


Stell, for steppin' on you." she contin-
ued. stumbling over Miss Larson's feet
and lunging into seat next to that
young person.
Miss Larson opened one sleepy eye.
"Oh. did you step on me-" she droned,
yawning widely and undisguisedly. Il
didn't know It,"
Sure l did" responded Miss Con.
nelly. Il thought Id better wake you
up and tell you about It. You can 60
to sleep again now"
Miss Larson opened the other eye.
Il wasn't sleep. Nell Connolly" she
said. Indignantly. Il guess a person 9
got a right to shut their eyes ii they
want to. My eyes amt very strong
and the light hurts EN-
Don't let's waste our perfectly
good time tightin' with each other this
morning." said Miss Connolly. IF We
do We won't have any time left to
knock the weddin'."
Say" began Miss Frizkie eagerly.
didn't you pretty near die over the
way Names hair was fixed? Honest
to goodness. when l get married I'll
have hair dresser fix my hair up
swell II I don't have so much as pork
chop to eat for a year"
II thought her hair looked pretty
good for Mame." said Miss Larson,
sleepily. 1T always looks like shed
slept in It,"
"Her dress was a peach. though,
wasn't it," said Miss Frizkie AT
least It would have been II It had any
fit to It. All that hand embroidery and
that bead trimming must have cost q
pile"
Hand embroidery" calculated Miss
Connolly. That's all you know about
II, Jen. | was over to look at Names
clothes T0osday evening and felt OF It
good. and It wasn't no more hand EN-.
broidery than nothing"
We'll. she must "a goth corner on
this years crop OF beads" said Miss
Frizkie. What do you think said to
the lady that was standin' next to me
when Name came into the parlOr? l
give her dig with my elbow and
says, Say I says, Name must have
got mixed in her dates and thought
she was a Christmas tree
my. The lady got as red as any.
thing. I designed that gown she says,
shifting up her nose al me. mad as she
could be. It's modelled after a gown
that was imported straight from Paris
and you couldn't find its duplicate In
Chicago. I'm high.priced modiste,
she says. besides being Miss Peter.
sons own aunt
Land! just faded away like Id
been blown OF the landscape"
ITS q pity you couldn't learn not to
have such rude manners, Jen." said
Miss Connolly.
II guess II could just learn to shut
up and keep shut up II would help
some." agreed Miss Frizkie, good-na-
turedly.
"Mame didn't have such an awful
lot of presents as l thought she
would" Miss Larson opened her eyes
long enough TO remark Il kind Of
thought she'd have a lot more'n what
she did"
"Some of EN- was expensive. though,
I guess" said Miss Frizkie. Now, l
bet that cut glass pitcher and them
glasses cost twenty dollars"
mix on that" said Miss Connolly.
decidedly. Il picked up every one OF
'em and run my finger over 'em, and
they wasn't sharp like cut glass ought
to be. They was real smooth"
swell, that shows how you can fool
me-" Miss Frizkie admitted But then
I'd q whole lot rather have snowy
set like that than some little dinky
piece that wouldn't make no show at
ALL"
"Same here" said Miss Larson.
Anybody would, Of course. guess
! Names mas folks are pretty well
fixed anyway. Her mas brother gave
her that dandy set OF knives and forks
that was layin' upon the dresser with
the plates with the hand painted fruit
design up EN-"
"Nothin' much to them," said Miss
Connolly. Il guess they didn't cost
more'n about five dollars. They was
plated and 1t wasn't first-class plate.
either"
''Plated?" cried Miss Frizkie. How
do you know they was plated"
why, l took 'em out and looked at
them" replied Miss Connolly. placidIy.
You can't fool me. All the silver
things there was plated except that
little pickle fork that the two Ryan
girls gave her."
MY, I'd hate to give such an awful
little thing. anyway" murmured Miss
Larson. II think it was lot better
to club together like us girls did and
give her something big. Our silver
tray looked like it could have bought
I'D everything else she had"
"Includin' the teller she married,
said Miss Connolly. Say. wasn't he
.he farmer, though? | bet he rented
tbern clothes. lie was afraid TO sit