Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — Just by Accident. [ARTICLE]

Just by Accident.

One of those lucky girls who can turn their_mistakes "into victories is said to have originated the fashion of wearing ribbon belts twisted so as to make a point in thocenter of the back. Dressing in a hurry, she drew her belt carelessly about her waist and hastened down to breakfast to be greeted by her dearest enemy before she had traveled half the length of the hotel dining-room, with, ••Oh, Adele, dear, your belt is twisted right in the middle, don’t you know. Kun back and straighten it before Mr. —— sees it He is so critical about little matters.” “Don’t you think it gives a nice pointed effect?” demanded Adele, catching sight of het reflection in a fHcndly mirror. “I do,” and she marched serenely to her seat, and after two days of wearing her belt twisted the other girls agreed with her. As for the critical Mr. , for some reason, of which possibly Adele has the secret, he seems curiously indifferent to the dearest enemy nowaday a —Boston Transcript.