Holbrook argus., 1912-06-25

the Fair grounds 10 see was effect it's magniticence was a-creatin She thought it was about the swellast thing that ever took years savings up to get.
 You know how 1t was in Chicago Worlds Fair year-hot and close and crowded-with a lot of hotels just knocked up out of pine boards and furnished with stuff from the install ment stores. We got into one of them hotels down near the Fair grounds.
 "Sarah's room was right next to mine, an there was a transom over each door. We had been there week, and was most ready for square meal back on the old hum stead when somethin' happened. About 1 o'clock in the mornin' heard Sarah a-poundin' on the inch pine wall between the rooms an shoutin' like she was crossing of the dark river an no boat in sight
 T hits the floor mighty quick, | thinllin' of all I had heard about l thieves an murderers in Chicago. an prances into Sarah's room. I finds Sarah in a panic, a-rockin' back. an forth on the side of her wrenchin' an screechin' bed, an a-lifting up her voice like all go-bang
 Oh, Ikey,' she says to me, I've been robbed. I folded up my new silk dress in a neat package and hung 1t on the wall there, an now it's gone. Some man reached right through the transom an took it. I saw his hand
 There ain't no use tryin' to con. sole a woman for a new silk dress when it's been stole from her. so tdn't try. 1 just stood there and ex. pressed my opinion of Chicago. from Kensington to High Ridge avenue.
 Now, key says she to me. when 1 stopped on account of havin' nothin' more to say that was original, I'm never goin' back without that new silk dress. I'd be the laughin' stock of everybody. You've got to take enough of our money an buy me new silk dress. I'll save ID eggs and butter money until I've paid you back
 Tt might be 2 mistake" said L You lie quiet for 8 day or two an mebbe the party what took the dress will bring it back. In the meantime, I'll advertise it in the newspapers.
 So went back to my room to put on my new suit, an the vest wasn't under my pillow where 1 had put 1t. It was tucked away in 3 corner under the bed. When I looked in the inside pocket there wasn't any more money there than robin could carry in his left eye. An us With the hotel bill only half paid and the tickets back home gone. I could see the finish for the new silk dress.
 T ain't a-goin' to tell you what 1 said to Sarah for losin' of her dress, nor yet what she said to me for los. in of our money. She wouldn't go out of her room until. 1 got money from home, an I was mighty hungry before I thought of pledgin my new gold watch. But I put the advertise ments in as soon as I could, and of | fered g reward for the return of the dress.
 50 we went back home an wait ed eighteen years for that new silk dress to be brought back. Every let | to her like it had a hint about that dress in it, until she got it open.
 Don't be inpatient used to say to her. Give the advertisement a chance to percolate.' So she waited. and I waited, and the other day 1t come"
 What's that?" demanded the mer- chant You never got that silk dress back again. did you? Where was 1t all that time? Who stole it?"
 Tt wasn't stole" replied Uncle Ike. "A man who was leavin' the hotel reached through the wrong transom an got it. It was three weeks before | he found out his mistake, and then there was no tracin' the occupant of that room. Well, sir. not long ago. he bought some seed onions of a farmer, and the farmers wife went to the gar ret and brought out an old. old news paper to wrap them up in. On the way home he noticed the paper was | dated Worlds Fair year. and so he read 1t, kind of to bring that time back to his mind, guess. And there he saw the advertisement for Sarah's new black silk dress. After more than eighteen years that advertisement brought resultsl l heard you two talking about advertising. and thought I'd tell you about Aunt i Sarah's new silk dress"
 "Is that right7" asked the mer- 1 chant
 Sure! The dress came back good as new. Hadn't never been taken out of the package. so it was wrinkled some, but Sarah's wearin' of it today. Made over? Why. yes, 3 little, but it's 2 pretty good dress yet Wasn't that funny? After eighteen years"
 And if you don't get returns the same day" laughed the agent. turn | ing to the merchant "vOu think vou