Margaret longed for "the coming out season;" she had been promised her first long dress and its expected arrival was no small amount of anxiety. At last the messenger arrived and delivered one box of joy, namely, the long dress. Losing no ...See moreMargaret longed for "the coming out season;" she had been promised her first long dress and its expected arrival was no small amount of anxiety. At last the messenger arrived and delivered one box of joy, namely, the long dress. Losing no time in apprising her athletic brother of the fact, she hastened to don the new dress and sallied forth to do the boulevards. She attracted so much attention that the morning cruise proved an eventful one, for everywhere she went the proverbial Johnny was at her heels. Upon her arrival at the ice-cream parlor, everybody wanted to give up their seat to her. Then, when she sat at the separate table, they all with one accord moved gently to her side. This was too much for the young pet of the family and she, after many like experiences, returned home and decided to relegate the newly-acquired gown to the wardrobe and return to her first love, the short skirts. While sobbing at the thought of the parting with her first long dress, she was confronted by her brother, who suggests a stratagem and is soon fitted out in sister's summer lingerie, with the avowed intention of venting his pent-up feelings on the gay Lotharios. Accordingly he visits in the same path as that covered by the sister and the first consternation was caused at the ice cream parlor when he found it necessary to make a cleaning, which was done in regular Reno style. On the street car he had occasion to do likewise. A walk in the park and the persistent trollers were again discovered and finished when the "new girl" picked the ribbon cutter up bodily and tossed him from the bridge into the lagoon. Written by
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