Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-17
HER TRYING TIMES

"She frowned at me terribly. Then she said she was sorry, but they really did not carry any cheap garments and returned to her conversation about her halrdresser. So I slunk out, exactly foot and a half high, and just coming up for breathi
 Next l ran on to a fluffy little per- son who rested her hand affectionately upon my~shoulder and called me dearie. She said she had just the thing and for exactly $50. She said that she was crazy about that model herself and was hoping they'd have it in her size Then she brought out suit that was shirred where it was not plaited and plaited where there were no tucks or buttons or loops. It was the sort of a suit that would keep an insane patient quiet for hours merely counting up the different attractions hung upon it like Christmas tree.
 'There!' she said. Wasn't that stunning? Had l ever seen anything handsomer?'
 T have a tender beart and hated to crush the fluffy little person in spite of the 'dearie. So cautiously said that l really wanted something Simpler and less noticeable, and I'd really prefer it without the alley -cat-seal trifnmink with which everything seemed to be bedecked. You would have thought she had grown that seal trimming in aer own back yard, she looked so in JuJEu. one SdIQ LudC dIl Iile SlT1S III the department considered that fur trimming perfectly swell and were all going to have it on their suits. So I parted from her and sought another store.
 T think that the tall, svelte creature who waited on me here must have re- gently become engaged or something, because when I repeated my ditty about blue or brown suit under $50 she f1oated out with a motor coat hung over her shapely shoulders which she insisted was a perfect dream for $110, with real raccoon bandings. When I got her down to earth she found me a dark brown suit, the coat of which l liked so well that I phoned my husband to come over and look at 1t.
 I waited an hour for him, and when he came he liked ft, too, and then I remembered that I had not tried on the skirt. When that skirt and I be- came acquainted everything was off It was a perfectly dreadful skirt and had mysteries, because my hopes had been raised and then dropped with a thud. Also it was getting late and I knew that had the whole sickening performance to go through with an- other day. The svelte person conveyed the impression that by leading her to suppose l was going to buy that suit and then backing out I was in a class with bank Wreckers, thugs and mur- ueISIS ttIiu Stle S1OuIQ never IOIS0L my treachery to her dying day.
 Henry looked alarmed and said that while the svelte person and I were very curious and interesting in our demonstrations of feminine psychology l really should know better than to ask him to drop his work for such trivial recreation. In view of my sui ferings of the afternoon this remark was brutal and I told him so, all the way home, and vowed I didn't care II never had a suit!
 Henry said if it was necessary to break up the family to get it, he didn't care either-and that made me so an- gry that I went down right after breakfast the next morning and found exactly what I wanted hanging on a rack while the sweet young thing who waited on me was searching out a pur- pie suit for $95 to bring me in re- sponse to my demand for blue or brown at $50. It's a hardlife!"
 Tt sounds sol" agreed the other woman. T guess on the whole it's just as well I've got to wear my last years suit!"-Chicago News.