GATHERED WAISTS!
Andrews' _Bazar_ says: "Gathered waists are very much worn." If the men
would gather the waists carefully they would not be worn so much. Some men
go to work gathering a waist just as they would go to work washing sheep,
or raking and binding. They ought to gather as though it was eggs done up
in a funnel-shaped brown paper at a grocery.
CHURCH KENO.
While the most of our traveling men, our commercial tourists, are nice
Christian gentlemen, there is occasionally one that is as full of the old
Nick as an egg at this time of year is full of malaria. There was one of
them stopped at a country town a few nights ago where there was a church
fair. He is a blonde, good-natured looking, serious talking chap, and
having stopped at that town every month for a dozen years, everybody knows
him. He always chips in towards a collection, a wake or a rooster fight,
and the town swears by him.
He attended the fair and a jolly little sister of the church, a married
lady, took him by the hand and led him through green fields, where the
girls sold him ten-cent chances in saw dust dolls, and beside still
waters, where a girl sold him sweetened water with a sour stomach, for
lemonade, from Rebecca's well. The sister finally stood beside him while
the deacon was reading off numbers.
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