“Of surely we can!” say me. “In Woman’s Homely Companion, stylish paper, I read 1 page of fashionable hints wrote by a elderly clergyman who sign himself ‘Frou-Frou’ because he need the salary. He make following alarmy prediction:
“‘Stiles for 1909 will be built on Delagrange models with box-kite planes fore and aft to look awful tasty. All them patterns for winter wear will be heavier-than-air types which is very chick. Them Zepellin hats, so popular last season, are now being frowned at by Dam Fashion who says they are clumbsy & apt to catch afire. Them new hats will seem kind of horble when first looked at, but when they got a fan-shaped propeller going at full speed in the rear, you got to acknowledge they look mischievous & expensive.
“‘Many poor girls is making them at home after Buttermilk Patterns furnished by request & 10c extra please. Some light ashwood ribs, 90 yards mercyfied silk & a trifle of wire (which can be took out of any piano) are sifficient for.
“‘By sending $7,000 to Paris you can get one of them ready-trimmed by the Wright Sisters.’”
“If it was not printed in that Homely Companion paper I would enjoy a suspicion that Hon. Frou-Frou was talking about airships,” contract my poor Relation.
“Hats & Airships is very dear cousins,” I rotate. “But they has some delicious differences. Some Airships can’t lift nothing—but Ladies is often entirely carried away by Hats.”
“‘Do not hide your light under a bushel basket,’ are smart quotation for me”
“Where would they be carried away to?” ask Uncle Nichi, who are studying American jokes by correspondence school.