The Carlisle independent., 1918-05-30
Make Believe

woman in the large picture hat and imitation ermine.
 "Why, Jessiel" cried the girl in the big hat, as the other attempted to go | past. How mean it was that didn't | know you were on this train! I
 haven't seen you for agesi Are you
 shoppingY
 Well, yes," admitted the girl with
 the draped veil falling into step. "Tm
 so busy there days had to drop doz- en things to come downtown! But one does have to have clothes-such | nuisancei"
 That's the way feel about it." ad-
 mitted the other. "I'm looking for
 dress myself. Where are you go- | ing to look first?"
 i "Oh, in all those exclusive shops," the girl in the small hat rejoined with
 a tiny shudder. q simply can't stand
 the places where they have no individ-
 uality and where, when you do find | something, you meet sixteen other
 women with the same thing on! I
 cannot be happy in a gown unless it
 is for me alone-Arthur thinks have
 the most distinctive style"
 The other girl gave shriek. "Are | you still going with Arthur Darkwa- 1 ter?" she cried "3fy goodness I
 should think you'd get tired waiting | and hoping"
 "I am not in such hurry to marry l as you seem to be-" tartly said the girl in the small hat. Poor Arthur He l told me all about how he had 10 stop | calling on you because you so evident ly were trying to rush him into a pro- pos-''
 I'm going to try the shops first, too," hastily interrupted the young
 woman in the big hat, quite as though
 the other had not spoken. T want something out of the ordinary" Tt is simply impossible to buy serge dress that is prese1table under fifty dollars" said the girl in the small hat. "I want something terribly sim- pie and yet distinguished looking" q know precisely what I want" broke in her friend in the big hat. T saw one in Mime. Pheleepe's window in that terribly exclusive little arcade,
 you know-and it was only sixty dol lars and looked worth a hundred, and | 1t had"
 Mime. Croops, where I go mostly" | languidly broke .n the girl with the l small hat, never exhibits her frocks
 in a window; mercy. no! You'd never | know there were dresses for sale just
 looking in, She has, the most wonder | fully exclusive clients" Mime. Pheleepe makes special study of me-" confided her friend. sweetly. "She says she is always de
 lighted when she finds some one who
 needs an individual style and can wear itl I've heard that your Mime. Croops buys lots of her things at sales and just marks them up" The girl in the small hat laughed amusedly .I suppose her enemies in business tell all sorts of things" she remarked. "She is making such mar velous success I might as we'll see
 what she has in evening gowns while I'm there. I suppose. I want some thing in tulle and silver-just a little simple dance frock for about eighty or ninety. But must get the serge to- day"
 T may get satin frock instead of serge" chimed in the girl with the big hat. Serge really is frightfully common. q suppose because 1t Is cheaper than satin. A severe black satin frock has such an air and can carry off those strictly tailored things. But won't touch satin under four dollars a yard--I hate those sleazy cheap ones !''
 "Oh, dear mel" cried the girl in the
 small hat, stopping short. 'T'm so | sorry! I've just remembered I've got | to call at the opticians for mothers
 glasses-and did want you to go with
 me to Mime. Crops! No, dear, I
 wouldn't dream of having you stop
 with me, because there's no telling
 how long I'll have to wait !' | Maybe it's just as well," sighed the girl in the big hat and imitation er-
 mine, prettily. "I must run right
 around and see about those opera tick.
 cts before it's too late, I'm just as
 disappointed as I can bel l wanted
 you to see the lovely things at Mime.
 Pheleepe's!"
 Ten minutes later the girl in the
 small hat and the girl in the big one
 hated each other for life with deadly
 hatred. For they met in a frenzied
 search through the racks of $15 serge
 dresses in basement sale.-Chicago naf1v Nou,c