Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-23
After the
Wedding

"SNulU CEleQ MISS COuuSlly oo oHo
bounced into the car. beg pardon,
StelI, 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. y
didn't know IT.
"Sure I did" responded Miss Com
nelly. 81 thought I'd better wake you
up and tell you about it. You can 90
to sleep again now
Miss Larson opened the other eye.
~ wasn't sleep, Nell Connolly" she
said, Indignantly. Il guess PERSONS
got right to shut their eyes If they
want to. My eyes amt very strong
and the light hurts EN-"
Don't let's waste our perfectly
good time fightin' with each other this
morning." said Miss Connolly. III we
do We won't have any time left to
knock the weddin'."
Say" began Miss FTizkie eagerly
didn't you pretty near die over the
way Names hair was fixed? Honest
to goodness, when I get married Ill
have hair dresser fix my hair up
swell If don't have so much as pork
chop to eat for year"
az thought her hair looked pretty
al
sleepiIy. ut always looks like she'd
slept in It"
"Her dress was peach. though,
wasn't it?" said Miss Frizkie. AT
least it would have been If 1t had any
fit to It. All that hand embroidery an0
that bead trimming must have cost q
pile"
Hand embroidery" calculated Mise
Connolly. That's all you know about
it. Jen. was over to look at Names
clothes Toosday evening and felt OF II
good, and it wasn't no more hand EN-
broidery than nothing"
We'll, she must "a goth corner on,
this years crop o. beads" said Misc
Frizkie. what do you think ! said: to-
the lady that was standin' next to me
when Name came into the parlor III
give her a dig with my elbow and J
says, Say I says, Name must have
got mixed in her dates and thought
she was Christmas tree.
My! The lady got as red as any
thing. I designed that GOWN she says
shifting up her nose at me. mad as she
could he. It's modelled after a gowr
that was imported straight from Paris
and you couldn't find its duplicate IN
Chicago. I'm a high-priced modiste.
she says. besides being Miss Peter
sons own aunt
Land. just faded away like I'd
been blown off the landscape"
Its pity you couldn't learn not to
have such rude manners, Jen," said
Miss Connolly.
II guess if could just learn to shut
up and keep shut up it would hell
somc," agreed Miss Frizkie, good-na
turedly.
Name didn't have such an awful
lot of presents as | thought she
would" Miss Larson opened her eye;
long enough to remark u kind o.
thought she'd have lot more'n whai
she did"
Some of EN- was expensive, though
I guess" said Miss Frizkie. Now,
bet that cut glass pitcher and then
glasses cost twenty dollars
nix on that" said Miss Connolly,
decidedly. Il picked up every one OF
'em and run my finger over EN-, and
they wasn't sharp like cut glass ought
to be. They was real smooth
"Well. that shows how YOU can foo
me-" Miss Frizkie admitted. But Their
Id a whole lot rather have show!
set like that than some little dinky
uince that wouldn't make no show al
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. II guess they didn't cost
more'n about five dollars. They was
plated and it wasn't tirst.class plate,
either
"Plated?" cried Miss Frizkie. "How
do rou know they was plated?'
why. took EN- out and looked at
them replied Miss Connolly, placidly.
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. Id hate to give such an awful
little thing. anyway" murmured Miss
Larson. II think 1t was a lot better
to club together like us girls did and
give her something big. Our silver
tray looked like 1t could have bought
up everything else she had"
"Includin' the Teller she married."
said Miss Connolly. Say. wasn't be
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