The Huttig news., 1912-06-15
, Cause
 For Alarm

Mrs. Winchester, who has been sit
 ting in an attitude of dejected be-
 wilderment in front of pile of silks
 of various eolors and descriptions suddenly rises and plucks her friend
 Mrs. Palmer from out of the passing hrong. She drags her victim back
 with her to the silk counter.) Mrs Winchester-My dear. I'm so glad to see you that I could fall on your neck and weep. You've simply got to select gown for me Really. I've been through so much the last two weeks that I'm not capable of SC lecting dish towel, even if that would serve the present purpose
 which 1t won't
 Its all on account of Tom, poor, dear boy! Of course. you've heard hat he is engaged You haven't? We'll, the fact has so thoroughly filed my horizon that I suppose I have got into the habit of thinking everybody else Is absorbed in 1t, too Pm just heartbroken about it.
 Yes, I was going to tell you about
 he girl that poor Toms engaged to
 m so distressed about 1t She's per
 ectly wonderful and charming, too, ! don't doubt. but. my dear, she's the most superior creature that ever was born! She knows everything Gro ,lerk) Yes. that's very pretty. but l 'ont think it's quite what I want
 You know it's to wear at the re option that my sons faneee,s mother s going to give to announce the en- Faeement, and I'm afraid that would ook to plain. I wonder how voile would do. I'm fond of voile. but
 eally don't know what is suitable for the grooms mother Nobody ever 1ays any attention to the masculine ;ide of wedding anyway, but I sup pose if looked dowdy there'd be no md of talk. Gro clerlO Could yon show me some of those things quite 'own at the other end? So nice of you
 There's no reason on earth why everybody shouldn't be delighted Her amily is verp prosperous and Tom is 1uite able, young as he is, to set up very creditable establishment I'm so distressed about it. (To clerk) How much did you say that piece was? Oh dear, I'm sorry It does seem just what I want, but really 1 don't feel that I can pay as much as hat
 When you count the making and he trimming and everything. don't you know, it mounts up so frightfully Yes. it's true that cheap materials are the most expensive in the end. but then when you have only so much money to spend for thing I don't | Know what y5rn '. !1!! g !5 11! I
 Why should I object to the mar riage? My dear. don't for a minute imagine that object. How could l? Tom says he's the luekiest and the i happiest man that ever was. and m bound to believe him. It does seem so hard, though, to bring up boy through all kinds of experiences measles and humps. and besides those Tom had a perfectly terrible attack of typhoid three years ago, and stayed with him day and night, and nobody had any idea he'd live through it-and then to have him marry some perfectly strange girl that nobody ever heard of and that speaks half dozen different languages! Gro clerk Could I look at that piece at the bot tom of the shelf? That sort of pink ish lavender. I'm afraid it's going to be an awful bother to you to get 1t, but it does attract me so.
 "Yes, indeed, I feel almost as sorry for her as I do for myself Think of the poor creature saddled with mother-in-law who doesn't even know her own language particularly well. can just feel how that poor cultured child will shiver every time | open my mouth.
 "Yes. isn't that pretty? tTo clerk How much did you say? Well, be lieve I could afford that. have some lace that l could use and that will re- duce the cost
 How nice 1t would be to be the brides mother She always seems to wear gray satin and duehesse lace It must simplify things so greatly
 "Ethel,-that's her name. Ethel Harcourt-knows how to cook, She took domestic science. Of course. can cook in way. but l wouldn't dore to ask anybody who didn't have the digestion of an ostrich to eat the things I make. Ethel asked me the other day what l considered the most hygienic way to make bread! I felt like a criminal when 1 told her that I never had made any. but that would ask Eliza, the cook I have had for the last 20 years, how she did it.