The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-06-27
What His
Wife Wears

one who will take my husband on and
sequester him by threat. main force
or guile long enough for me to buy
spring and summer wardrobe. 1t Is
absolutely impossible to do 1t 80 long
IS he remains at large.
when | married John had no idea
lie was SO fussy think spoiled him
ly unwisely complimenting his good
taste and judgment in regard to
clothes, and he got conceited about 1t.
He shouldn't have taken me seriously,
for a woman has right to say any.
thing nice to man that comes into
her head when she is trying to en-.
snare him into matrimony! If he
played the game fair he would charge
all her compliments up to profit and
loss and use common sense after he
was married just as a woman does
tut men are SO foolish.
Johns conceit was great shock
to me. because everything had done
or worn or said had invariably been
little better than just all right with
John.
MY awakening came when l pur-
chased the linen dress found 1t in
one of these exclusive little shops
where they have clothes all ready to
wear that are beyond your widest
dreams of style The linen dress was
the last cry. can't exactly describe
1t except that 1t was a coarse, heavy,
natural ecru linen with panels OF
heavy lace to match and an odd Grim.
son suede belt and fascinating snatch.
cs of thin net let in here and there.
Any woman can tell from this de-
scription that 1t was exactly the stun.
ningest, most unusual thing you can
ever hope to see.
81 simply grabbed 1t and had it fit.
ted to me. When 1t came home l
donned 1t and casually walked out in
front Of John.
81 hadn't exactly formulated what
expected him to say. but It was some
thing to the effect that he was over.
come totally by my air Of magnifi.
cence. Instead, he was strangely 81.
! lent. had not expected him to be SO
overcome
Don't you like IT," limited.
: John coughed. looked at him In
/ surprise. Then he took hold OF a
/ sleeve with a gingerly thumb and fore.
: finger What is it?' he asked. hest.
tatingly. 1t looks-er-it looks like
| potato sacking. OF couse.' he added.
. hastily and politely. I know 1t isn't.
, Dut-er-isn't 1t Queer?'
I "Oh. he tried to be polite he really
l did. But he suffered so while he was
/. doing 1t that. having tender heart
I couldn't stand 1t. He simply couldn't
see that linen dress. To him 1t was
9 a monstrosity. a blot on the landscape
;. and at the thought Of his wife appear
n Ing in garment which to him was 60
!. Ing to draw the scOrn and amazed
a amusement of the populace was unen
:, durable.
q so long as that dress was in the
house John was nervous, anguished
, and tOrmented. so took 1t back
!, told the store people that Id pay them
to take 1t back. because if l kept It
!, knew 1t meant divorce In the family
:, but they We're very nice and said
could change It. So bought Lowell,
), taffeta gown. II was a changeable sill
: with putlings and quillings and {
quaint lace fichu.
~ my dear, You'll never believe me
but when put that dress on Johl
just sat and looked puzzled. Isn't !
terribly old fashioned he asked, tim
idly. I remember my great aunt In
dress like that Why don't you &c
:, something new and STYLISH
:. Wasn't that hopeless? I explaine,
;, to him carefully that 1t was the lates
style, but John vowed that it was an
:" cient and that they had imposed o,
ME and anyhow he disliked change
able silk. So sold 1t to my sister 70
!" S. less than paid for It. was nov
~ SIS to the bad. as the second dres
Iidu NOst FAV IolS tidU tue OTIklIld
'e linen. told John that when he coul,
take day OF and accompany ME on
A. :, shopping tour Id buy dress, but un
=, I'll then would devote my attentio,
to hats.
:, Il got a perfect love of hat witt
II. bunch Of these white uncurled OF
~ trich feathers on that everybod
OF knows cost like sixty-and John thre,
up his hands. He said looked a
IT though had been caught out In tn
er rain and hadn't money enough to &c
the feathers recurled. He raved Q
about It that l sent the hat back.
Then I sat down In front Of Johr
X. and by painstaking labor extrac,e
as from him the description Of the kin
N. Of clothes he would like to see me II
He said he liked tailory things wit
:, shirt waists that had collars and cut,
they've been out Ave. years 20
=. know-and sailor hats. John said tbs
- nothing on earth looked so trim an
-. ~ stylish as a perfectly plain sailor ha
What would they do to me at a fasl
ionable tea II I appeared In such "a,
as ments!
ne "Oh. no. I didn't ask John that. An,
e. how. WAS In luck, because I kno,