The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-12-08
A Short Story From the Chicago
Daily News


gloves. I'm not going to be conceit
ed any more"
What a terrible resolution" chuck
led her brother. Fortunately you
don't say 1t as II you meant 1t, SC
/ shall not send for our family ply
stefan until l hear the details. What
Is up?"
81 travelled down town this morane
very well content with my looks and
my Clothes" Loretta explained, with
little line in her smooth brow. ''Of
course, l don't mean that couldn't
be improved on"
"Of course not!'
81 merely mean" she went on With
out needing, that considering the
fact that it's me look and dress
pretty well. I was quite satisfied.
I stopped at my dressmaker's to see
about having that crepe meteor made
In case I have enough OF my allow
ohSc iCit " 6Vt ohC anu shoe 10 VhSi
had my first shock"
How on earth did madam hurt
your young feelings?'
you need not laugh! You would
not like to be told that you are too
sallow to wear lavender or that you
cannot have one of the new girdles
because it would call attention to the
fact that one hip is higher than the
other, / know you wouldn't"
1T would break my heart"
And that isn't ALL sighed Lo-et-
ia. She said I'm so awfully narrow
chested that l am just in style and
can wear the waists that make you
look so horribly skinny. / am going
to take up gym work next week if
have any money left"
"You needn't try boxing with me.
I value my life."
I'm glad that somebody does.
Well, listen to my tale Of woe! From
the dressmaker's l went to the mill
liners There my hat was ready to
he sent home If l liked (which /
most emphatically did not. The back
of it lay down on my collar in a
most ridiculous way and I asked the
milliner as nicely as could to
change it for me. She said she was
afraid she could not do any better
because | always insist on wearing
my hair in a coil on top of my head
She said that when | wore the hat |
he way | like it there was an awful |
Inc from my collar to the top of my |
lead that was extremely ugly. She |
said that this was the truth though |
she hated to say it,"
mo more than you hated to have
Ter say it, I'll bet"
Il was not pleased. / tooR the hat |
tut when 1t comes home I'm going |
o put whole newspaper in the back |
VI 1t to keep me from looking like a
oboggan slide. Then every time
.nybody looks at me I'll think of that
perfectly horrible line from my col
ar to the top of my head and shiv. |
r." II
IT you only could cut of your
lead when you wear that haiti"
II wanted blue" Loretta went on.
But that incorrigible milliner. said
lack subdued my features better. SO |
got black. I've been wondering ev.
r since which Of my features need
It'll end in my getting an
'ther hat, for my suit is brown"
ooh. you got a suit?"
"That's what went for. the fitting |
Il my suit. I had to hurry because
hey don't like 1t bit II you are five
late and they make you lose
your appointment. They kept me
waiting half an hour, but that's differ
mt"
Certainly"
~ had hardly put the skirt on
when the filter said that really she
knew whether she was 60
ng to be able to make 1t do be-
cause l was so tall, you know. Then,
too, she said, my hips were large,
and she'd have to swing the skirt a
lot to make 1t hang right. She said
The coat would require extra padding
because | was so sort of fiat and my
arms We're really abnormally long
even for one OF my height. She liked
he suit, she said, though II some,
lines happened that folks found they
could not wear that peculiar shade
inless they had lots Of color, which
t seemed | didn't have. Then she
wound up her remarks by supposIng
hat I'd be glad the skirts were fuller
low as they didn't make folks who