Judge — February 18, 1899 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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nage EMININE ECONOMIES. Mrs. Cheepsley threw herself back in her chair and drew her white pegnoir artistically about her. “Well, if things aren't cheap' Do you kaow, | got a'lovely gray skirt to wear with my cherry-silk waist, at twelvé and % half cents a yard. Near- + ly all wool, and a bargain. “Just think of it} Six times twelve and a half is seventy-two—seventy-five. \ skirt for seventy-five cents., Where is a man’s economy compared. with that 2” “T suppose you needed some trimmings for it, didn’t you 2” remarked Mr. Cheepsley, who had a friend in the dry-goods business and talked shop, “Trimmings? No: it’s to be made perfectly plain, ‘There's the beauty I mean linings and things,” corrected Mr. Cheepsley. “Oh, yes; of course it had to have some kind of lining. and I can’t bear cheap stuff. It doesn’t keep in shape half a season. ‘Thirty-seven and a half cents is the least | ever pay. There is no economy in poor linings.” Didn't you need anything else 2" queried Mr. Cheepsley. becoming interested. ot much, Only two yards of linen canvas at thirty cents a rO KE TEM OFF. yard and a Binks — ** Just a little contrivance of mine to prevent seit thas People from stepping on my heels cost forty.” “T think I shall be able to make a skirt myself soon.” said Mr. Cheepsley facetiously. By the way, what does the making of a plain skirt like this cost >” That's another economical point of mine.” continued Mrs. with great enthusiasm “1 have found that Miss Mace skirts just as well as Mrs, Risegari, who charges twice much. 1 don’t expect to pay her more than two dollars for making this one.” “Then let us see what you pay for your skirt.” pondered Mr. Cheepsley abstractedly. “The original material being. seventy-tive cents, the lining at thirty-seven and a half amounting to two-twenty- THE BEST SHE COULD DO. five, the canvas sixty cents, the braid for Shall you him the marble heart, Louise?” Louise" Why, really. 1 don't love him enough for that; bur I shall try and voy for getting good linings, and I don’t expect you to make your own give him a very fair plaster-of. jitation, y und the making two dole lars, brings it up to about five dollars and forty cents. I don't blame but why “— HE DIDN'T PUT IT INTO PRACTICE His seal ence was never finished, but it was noticed afterward that Mrs. Cheepsley employed Mrs. Rise instead of Miss Mace, and t goods at less five cents a For who will have the hardihood tw deny that when a woman ts once convinced of an inconsis- tency she will reverse the order of creation to over come it? RATHRINE GHOSJHAN. 1. Mx. HustLe—"* The next peddler that bothers me will see his own finish.” THE TRUTH. FAME'S laurel crown too soon decays For those who win and pluck it: ‘The man who kicks the pig skin finds He's apt to kick the bucket, THE SOREHEAD. Freddy —* What's a reformer, pa?” Cobwigger—" He's a man who failed to get a nomination on the ma- chine ticket!” | — Professor MeMugg, and — 4. —I'm prepared to give you lessons in the ‘manly art’ right in your own office.”* comicbooks.com