"Oh, say," she called. "I almost forgot. I want to tell you that if
you wait until your caramel is off the stove, and then add your
butter, when the stuff's hot, but not boilin', it won't lump so. H'm?
Don't mention it."
VI
SIMPLY SKIRTS
They may differ on the subjects of cigars, samples, hotels, ball teams
and pinochle hands, but two things there are upon which they stand
united. Every member of that fraternity which is condemned to a hotel
bedroom, or a sleeper berth by night, and chained to a sample case by
day agrees in this, first: That it isn't what it used to be. Second:
If only they could find an opening for a nice, paying gents'
furnishing business in a live little town that wasn't swamped with
that kind of thing already they'd buy it and settle down like a white
man, by George! and quit this peddling. The missus hates it anyhow;
and the kids know the iceman better than they do their own dad.
On the morning that Mrs. Emma McChesney (representing T. A. Buck,
Featherloom Petticoats) finished her talk with Miss Hattie Stitch,
head of Kiser & Bloch's skirt and suit department, she found herself
in a rare mood.
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