The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-22

Well, if they think for a single second that I'm going to do anything of the kind they are much mistaken" :" went on Lily Belle. T won't go home for the old wedding, that's all. I'll write to mamma this very day not to let them order the stuff for my dress. Ankle length! Everybody else with train and little Lily Belle trotting up the aisle in a short dress humps!"
 Never mind; you just stay here with me until the weddings over," said Cousin Mattie, soothingly. How does 1t happen that they're all mar ried but you?'
 "Oh, It's a club we have. There are just seven of us and each one that has married has had the rest for at- tendants. The man I was going to walk up the aisle with is simply de- Ightful-from Denver. It just makes me perfectly furious. Cousin Mattie."
 Well" purred Cousin Hattie, equa- et-f JooS etOb aiOuuo III tuo slOTeS today and look at the pretty things and forget all about 1t for while"
 They had their luncheon and were making tour of the shops when they saw the spangled tunic. Before a critical customer the saleswoman held it up-a lovely, shimmering thing, like a robe of cobwebs spangled with dew. drops
 "Only thirty-two fifty, marked down from forty" said the saleswoman.
 The customer turned away indiffer. ently. Tt isn't just what wanted" she drawled. q think I'll look some where else"
 Lily Belle darted at the clerk as the other woman turned away. Let me look at that. please" she cried, drag ging Cousin Matte toward the tunic. Isn't that the sweetest thing you ever laid your eyes on?"
 "very pretty" agreed Cousin Mat. tie, surveying the tunic placidly.
 As Lily Belle gazed half-formed thought in her brain crystallized into Suuuen TeSOlullOU.
 Cousin Matte Winslow," she an. nounced, impressively, I'm going to buy that tunic if 1t takes the last cent I have, and I'm going to wear it at the wedding. They'll all be angry, but 1t serves them right If I can't have a train at the bottom of my dress I'll have a tunic over the top, to make up."
 If Cousin Hattie had any misgiv ings about the propriety of the ar engagement, she was too we'll acquaint ed with her young relative to voice them, so the tunic was ordered and paid for.
 Mrs. Winslow settled herself com, fortably in an easy chair to read a let ter. It was two days after the wed ding, and the letter was postmarked "Springview" and addressed in Lily Belle's upright handwriting.
 Dear Cousin Mattie," she read, q have only time to write you a line about the wedding because I'm going out in the car with Mir. Swift-the Denver man I told you about-but ] want to thank you for helping me choose that tunic. It just made my dress and everybody said it was the prettiest gown that was ever seen in Springview. Nobody looked at Maudes dress to speak of. or any of the others. The girls were perfectly furious, but 1t served them right, for they never would have dared to de eide the way they did about the trains if had been here.
 Mamma began to make little fuss about my wearing the tunic- thought 1t might not be in good taste but when I told her that you thought 1t was all right she was sat, isfied. She has so much confidence in your judgment. Thank you again, dear Cousin Matte, for suggesting il"
 Cousin Matte opened her eyes little at the last sentence, then she smiled placidly.
 'Oh, well, I'm willing to take the responsibility" she thought Tt did serve them right"