Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — Not a Fashion Editor. [ARTICLE]

Not a Fashion Editor.

Somehow a fellow will get himself into trouble when he least expects to. The Boston Post says: A young lady in the rural districts wrote to us asking advice about how to have a dress made. Now, we didn’t know any more about a dress than a single man ought to, and didn’t know what to say. But we wanted to accommodate her, so we got a fashion magazine, copied a description of a dress, and sent it to her. Yesterday the tjueerest creature we ever saw bounced into our office. “Do you see this dress?” she demanded; “I’ve worn it in here to let you see it. This is the thing you advised me to make; look at it.” Then she went on. She had caused the dress to be made up, and worn it to the city, expecting it to be right in style, and found it to be a terror. Investigation showed that the magazine was of 1847. We hadn’t observed it before. Then there was only one thing for us to do. We tol'd her that we were not the editor who wrote the article, and took her to the office of the literary editor, whom we pointed out as the man. Then we fled the office. We hope we shall not see the literary ed : itor for a few days. He is a man of violent impulse, and somebody might get hurt.