The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-26
Cause
For Alarm

suddenly rises and plucks her friend
Mrs. Palmer from out OF the passing
throng. She drags her victim back
with her to the silk counter,)
Mrs Winchester-My dear, I'm SO
glad to see you that | 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
llecting a dish towel. even II that
would serve the present purpose,
which II won't
TITS all on account Of Tom. poor,
dear boy! OF course you've heard
that he Is engaged. You haven't!
Well, the fact has so thoroughly filled
my horizon that suppose l have got
Into the habit OF thinking everybody
else Is absorbed in It, too. I'm just
heartbroken about Il
Yes, I was going TO tell you about
The girl that poor Toms engaged to.
I'm 10 distressed about It She's per
fectiy wonderful and charming, too.
4 don't doubt. but my dear. she's the
most superior creature that ever was
horn! She knows everything. tTo
lclerk) Yes. that's very pretty, but !
don't think it's quite what want
You know it's TO wear at the re-
iception that my sons fiancee's mother
is going to give to announce the en-
Igagement, and I'm afraid that would
look to plain. wonder how wolfe
would do. I'm fond OF wolfe. but I
really don't know what is suitable for
the groom's mother Nobody ever
pays any attention to the masculine
side of wedding. anyway, but I sup
pose II looked dowdy there'd be no
end of talk. Ito clerk Could you
show me some OF those things quite
down at the other end7 So nice Of
you.
There's no reason on earth why
everybody shouldn't be delighted Her
family is verp prosperous and Tom is
quite able, young as he is, to set up
very creditable establishment I'm
90 distressed about II. Ito clerk)
How much did you say that piece
vast Oh, dear, I'm sorry. It does
seem Just what I want, but really
don't feel that can pay as much as
thai.
! when you count the making and
the trimming and everything. don't
you know, It mounts up 90 frightfully.
Yes It's trye that chez materials are
the most expensive In the end. but
then when you have only SO much
money to spend for thing don't
know what you're going to do.
why should object to the mar
riage7 Ny dear. don't for minute
Imagine that object How could I?
Tom says he's the luckiest and the
happiest man that ever was, and I'm
bound TO believe him. II does seem
90 hard, though, to bring up boy
through all kinds Of experiences
measles and mumps. and besides those
Tom had q 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! ITO clerk
Could 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 II does attract me SO.
yes, indeed, feel almost as sorry
for her as do for myself. Think OF
the poor creature saddled with a
mother-in-law who doesn't even know
her own language particularly well
can Just feel how that poor cultured
child will SILVER every time open
my mouth.
yes, isn't that pretty? ITO clerk
How much did You say? Well. be-
leve I could affoSd that. ! have some
lace that could use and that will re-
duce the cost.
How nice II would be to be the
brides mother. She always seems to
wear gray satin and duchesse lace.
1t must simplify things so greatly.
"Ethell-that's her name, Ethel
Harcourt-knows how to cookl She
took domestic science. OF course. 1
can cook In way. but ! wouldn't
dare to ask anybody who didn't have
the digestion of an ostrich to eat the
things make. Ethel asked me the
other day what ! considered the most
hygienic way to make bread! felt
like a criminal when I told her that
] never had made any. but that |
would ask Eliza, the cook have had
for the last 20 years. how she did II.
Ethel sighed compassionately.
She was ready for college when
she was sixteen, and Tom says she
simply had to night the whole family
to get them to let her go then. How
am ever going TO adjust myself TO
daughter.in-law with such super
abundance Of education? never
wanted an education. l was too busy
having good time All that ever
learned was thrust upon me. ITO
clerk Yes. cut It on and send It up,
please. I've got to decide some time.
and suppose ! might as well decide
now.
"a f-a-L.n HI