New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-15

person about my clothes, but certainly
would never have elected any one pres
ent at that gathering, judging frcm
what they wore themselves, to do my
shopping for me. Perhaps they con-
sidered that their good taste belonged to
their employers, to be used only in COM
panys business, and that it would be a
breach of contract to display any of it
in fitting themselves out. Business
ethics of to-day are pretty rigid. You
never can tell to what lengths a man
will go to give you your moneys worth.
But, be that as it may, there they
were, and there we were, under the sollc-
itous care of Mr.. Schmutz. tried to
give the impression that | was the one
who was going to write the story for the
trade paper and that my wife was going
TO do the drawings. gave her pencil
TO hold in order to heighten this effect.
IF you will step this way" said Mr..
Schmutz, 81 will have some of our mani
Kills SHOW lOr yOu.
This gave me little shock, as my
remembrance of manikin was some
thing we used to have in physiology in
school to illustrate the ground plan Of
the human body. 1t was little figure
with the outer, or storm, epidermis re-
moved, so that it wore its nervous sys-
tenn, as you might say, on Its sleeve.
Then there were little doors all over it
which you opened when you wanted to
look in on ventricle's home life or sur
prise thorax by saying Peek at 1t.
I didn't just see how manikin would
iit into this sort of show.
But it wasn't long before learned.
A manikin came across the exhibition
room, dressed in one of the exhibition
gowns. There could be no better term
for it than exhibition gown" Neither
could there have been anything better
than that manikin. She was tall and
dark-no, / guess she was highland
walked from her shoulders, with her
hands held out at the side as if she had
water on them and was looking for a
towel.
suddenly became aware that my
wife was looking at me and not at the
manikin, which meant considerable sac
riice on her part. So | looked away
from the manikin and at my hat, also
considerable sacrifice.
Sweeney" called Mr.. Schmutz to the
vision as she glided past. "Over here,
please"
He called her Sweeney" just as if
she had been porter, or President of
the United States!
With delicately raised eyebrows and
dropping lids, Sweeney pivoted divine
ly, balancing herself by just the right
elevation of her little fingers, and swept
toward us, stopping dead in front of
me and drawing back suddenly, as if she
had discovered in me the man who stole
her away from Vermont when she was
little girl.
was on the point of hiding behind a
palm until she should have recovered
her composure, when / saw that her
gesture was merely to display the stay
ing qualities of the gown; that is, when
the wearer stopped, the gown stopped
also, and when the wearer went ahead,
the gown followed.
AS she thus performed in front Of US,
and withal to the call of Sweeney" L
felt like dissolute Roman emperor sit
ting on a couch and drinking wine out
of a gravy-boat while Egyptian slave
girls danced at my command. And
when got through feeling like Roman
emperor l felt like Simon Legree. Al
together, was relieved when she had
gone.
was also relieved when we reached
the street. A joke is joke.
Before closing, must add that have
given a somewhat false impression in
this account. Instead of my being
dragged to all Of these places by my
wife, it was l who induced her to 90