Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-15

With the creates part 81 the Iegs cut
on q strips Of Observation-Disclosures
the seams, this garmensshe felt, was
traceable to Its original source.
When It had been placed upon PEN
rod the stockings were attached 10. 1t
By 9 system OF safety pins, not very
p~erceptfble at q distance. Next, after
being severely warned against stoop-
ing, Penrod got his feet Into the slip
pers he wor to- dancing school-"pat-
emit leather pumps now decorated
with large pink rosettes. a
II | can't stoop," he began smolder-
ingiy, I'D like to know howsm l gofn'
to kneel In the pag'
You must manager This, uttered
through pins, was evidently thought
to be sufficient.
They fastened some ruching about
his slender neck, pinned ribbons at
random all owe him, and then Mar
garet thickly powdered his hair.
"Oh. yes; that's all right" she said,
replying to a question put by her
mother. aThey always powdered their
hair In colonial tines
IT doesn't seem right to me-exact-
"" objected Mrs. Schofield gently.
"Sir Lancelot must have been ever so
long before colonial tines
"That doesn't natter, Margaret re-
assured her. Nobody'l know the
difference, Mrs. Lora Rewbush least Of
all. / don't think she knows a thing
about It though, Of course, she does
write splendidly and the words of the
pageant are just beautiful. Stand
still, PenrodE" CHE author OF liar
old Ramorez. had moved conyulsiYely.):
Besides, powdered hairs always be-
coming. Look at him. You'd hardly
know it was Penrod!,
The pride and admiration with which
she pronounced this undeniable truth
might have been thought tactless, but
Penrod, not analytical. found his spir-
Its somewhat elevated. No mirror
was In his range OF vision, and, though.
he had submitted to cursory measure
ments Of his person a week earlier, he
had no previous acquaintance with the
costume. He began to form not I'M
pleasing mental picture of his appear
ance, something somewhere between
the portraits of George Washington
and a vivid memory of Miss Julia
Marlowe at a matinee of Twelfth
Night
He was additionally cheered by a
sword which had been borrowed from
a neighbor who was a Knight of Pyth-8
las. Finally there vas a mantle, an
old golf cape of Margaret's. Fluffy
polka dots Of white cotton had been
sewed to II generously; also it vas or
namented with a large cross OF red
flannel, suggested by the picture Of a
crusader in a newspaper advertise
nent. The mantle vas fastened to
Penrod's shoulder-that Is. to the
shoulder of Mrs. Schoield's ex-bodice-
by means Of large safety pins and ar
ranged to hang down behind him,
touching his heels, but obscuring nos
wise the glory OF his facade. Then at
last he was allowed to step before a
mirror.
It was a full length glass and the
worst Immediately happened. It might
have been a little less violent, perhaps,
If Penrods expectations had not been
so richly and POLITICALLY localized, but
as things were the revolt vas volcanic.
Victor Hugo's account of the fight
with the devll1sh, in 'sToilers OF the
Sea-, encourages a belief that, had
Hugo lived and increased In power, he
might have been equal to a proper
recital of the half hour which followed
Penrod's first sight Of himself as the
Child Sir LanceloE But MI Wilson
himself, bastard but eloquent foe Of
Harold Ramorez, could not have ex.
pressed, with all the vile dashes at his
command, the Sentiments which ami
mated Periods bosom when the =
stantaneous and unalterable touyictto,
descended upon him that de was II
tended by bis loved ones to mak1nnh
lie spectacle of himself 81 his sister,
stockings and ssrt Of an old dress 8
mis- mothers.
To him these familiar things wer,
not disguised at all. There seemed b
possibility that the whole world woult
i luU hAOW LlEuA at SldlSC. LIS SLOSh
ings were worse than the bodice. FL,
had been assured that these could no
be recognized, but, seeing them In th,
mirror, he vas sure that nc human
eve could fail at first glance to detec
the difference between himself and th'
former purposes Of these stockings
Fold, wrinkle, and void shrieked thei
history with q hundred tongues, invok
ing earthquake, eclipse and blue ruin
The frantic youths final submission
was Obtained only after a painful tele
phonic conversation between hmsel
ana his father, the LITTER having bee
called dp and upon By the exhauste'
Mrs. Schoieid, to subjugate his %
spring by wire. /
The two ladies' made all possibl
haste after this to deliver Penrod int
the hands Of Mrs. Lora Rewbusf
Nevertheless, they found opportunit
exchange earnest co~ngratulation
his not having recognized th
S,,yah,a bus ~seryiceable paternal gal
1l hrfr,ant about the Lance