Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-16

fAunt Hetty would chaperone US, and
"Jud" was tickled, because he knows
her in their home town, and she is
a perfect peach.
There isn't any more to tell about
that day. ecaus the real event had
taken place.
But / must tell you how I did get
my evening dress. That evening af-
ter dinner we girls were all dancing
in the parIors as usual, and l
thought of a grand way to get
money. So I passed the word to all
the girls that l was going to have
an auction in my room at $40, ana
that it was an unrestricted sale"
Would every body who appreciated
bargains come? They were all "on"
in a minute, and l hustled up to my
room to see just what l could sell.
I decided that / would sell every
Thing. So when they poured in, and
began picking up things,-little sill
yer toilet articles that had been given
to me now and then by dntiful aunts,
and began to bid for them, l let
them all go. tt en- we dumped out
the contents of my bureau drawers
and l sold everything except my attn
Ietic underwear Chat left all the
fancy Christmas gifts to sell, you
know)-and the necessary blouses to
go to classes in. They gobbled up
my darling new Annette keHerman,
tand some handmade silver Jewelry'
and my shoe trees, and my TURKISH
bedroom slippers, and all the STUN
off my teatable, including my Ing
lish tea cosy, (presented me by our
English housekeeper), and my bath
crystals and even my bath sponge!
[ also sold the photographs off my
bureau, there were some OF AIS
ehums and lots of girls in the schoo
don't have brothers m their 1rienos
to provide them with desirable
nhotorraphs. They were all bid up
quite high.
You will find it hard to believe,
Mary G., but when the study bel
rang, I didn't have any useless prop
erty lying around,-It did LOCK sori
of bare,-but 1 had ~forty-five dollars
/ and sixty-eight cents! All Tor my
prom evening dress. 1t had to &c
| for the whole outfit, of course. ina
made an evening coat rather out o.
t the question. l was figuring out Jus
how far 1 could make that forty
l five go, and wondering If l coult
{ get a portiere at home for an eve
ming coat, when Helly slipped in.
/ am proctor for our floor, and SHOULD
) have put her out, but Helly whisper
ed. lied, you funny old thing, VIVA
/, did YOU have it for?" Money, m!
innocent lamb" said I, also in d;
whisper. Prom dress, you know
and so forth"
t Helly's face was very pink, so
t guessed what was coming. Dear klo
Helly. Ted, Aunt Hetty wrote m
t yesterday saying she had a dear o
: an evening coat that she though
l quite too youthful for a woman o
/ her years, and she asked me II
couldn't dispose of it to one OF tn
) girls who might be able to wear tha
; color. It's the loveliest American
Beauty color, Ted, and would lool
sweet on YOU"
"How much, Helly?" I asked in al
t cold a tone as possible, knowing
/ som ething of what Aunt Hett!
spends on little nothings like evening
coats. Five dollars, Ted, but
: know Aunt Hetty can be Jewec
t down. I've done it lots of times"
+, laughed out loud, 1 couldn't hell
> it, quite hour or no quite hour
, "Helly, you darlin' little bunch 0
1 Deceit ana SOOQIeSSi VI SouiSS -
D buy it, And now, hooray, l shall b
so grand that for once you won't b
ashamed to be seen with you poo
but honest friend. Do you want t.
know about my dress? But it's com
t ing out tomorrow and it's a dream
/ HeIly. You'll be dying with env.
when you see it, and III show 1t II
you the very first. And nobody els'
but Annielove is to know about it
| Come round tomorrow after gym"
What would you think, Mary G.
il I should to- lou that while 1 wal
trying to get my Latin that night
there was a sudden splash of yer!
wet tears right down on some of Vir
i. gil's best lines? Don't tell anybod!
that though.
i, My very best to Five-Fifteen, Cant
Annielove has promised a letter TO
, next week,) Ted.
All for today, girls.
MARY G.