Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — ONE MINUTE’S VIEW. [ARTICLE]
ONE MINUTE’S VIEW.
But What She Saw Would Take Halt an Hour to Tell. “Will you please tell us how the lady was dressed?’ said the attorney for the defense to a woman who was testifying in a police court proceeding. “Well, of course, I didn’t see for longer than a minute as she got up and walked out of the street car w« were bdth riding in, but she had on a wide gray fur hat turned up at one
aide and fastened with a rhinestone buckle, and she had a long white feather and a gray bird’s wing on the* hat and a narrow band of gold galloon' around It, and two large scarlet red velvet roses, and she had the hat fastened on with three hatpins, one of them with a red glass stone set around with California brilliants, and another was in the shape of a four-leaf clover and the third was a big gilt ball, and the hat drooped away over on the right side, and she had a black veil with white dots on it, and it was fastened with a gold arrow run through a rhinestone buckle at the back of the hat. Then she had on a tailored suit of mauve cloth with the Jaeket and front width of the dress all braided in silk braid of the same shade of the dress, and the other widths of the dress ahd three bias folds laid on one right above the other, and the six buttons covered with goods like the dress, and the. Jacket had a bias fold all around It and 14 buttons down the front and 3 on the pockets, and it had a wide rolling collar lined with satin a shade or two lighter than the dress and there was a narrow silk cord of white silk edging the collar and coming all down the front of the Jacket, which was a little more' than halffitting, and it sagged Just a trifle on ‘the left side and” “You say that you saw the lady but a mompnt?” “Yes, just for a moment as she was leaving tlfe car, but I noticed that she had on a gray squirrel skin muff and tippet and”— — “That will do, madam. Next witnes will please come forward.” —Puck.
