re there |
|are any number of girls just as good looking, |
|besides a lot who are better looking, it is a |
|serious matter when a young man begins to look |
|critically at one's dress. |
| |
|Particularly is it serious when the acquisition of a|
|new dress is a matter of much painstaking planning; |
|of dispensing with this or that at luncheon; of |
|walking to work every day instead of only when the |
|weather is fine; and of other painful sacrifices. |
| |
|Ambrosia didn't say anything. She pretended she |
|hadn't noticed the young man's look. But that night,|
|in her room on East Thirteenth Street, Ambrosia |
|indulged in some higher mathematics. It might as |
|well be vouchsafed here that the address on East |
|Thirteenth Street is 1315, and that Ambrosia's name |
|is Dallard, and that she is an operator for the Bell|
|Telephone Company. The net result of her |
|calculations was that, no matter how hard she saved,|
|she wouldn't be able to buy a new dress until |
|December or January. Meanwhile,--but Ambrosia knew |
|there couldn't be any meanwhile. She had to have |
|that dress. |
| |
|Ambrosia found a card, and on it was the name of a |
|firm which ardently assured her it wanted to afford |
|her credit. Then there was a little something about |
|a dollar down and a dollar a week until paid for. |
| |
|So Ambrosia got her dress. It had cost her $1, and |
|it would be entirely hers when she had paid $14 |
|more. Ambrosia wore it to a movie and the young man |
|admiringly informed her she "was all dolled up." And|
|everyone was happy. |
| |
|One never can tell about dresses, though; |
|particularly $15 ones. One night, when Ambrosia was |
|wearing the new possession for the third time, it |
|developed a long rip. The cloth was defective. |
| |
|Ambrosia took the dres