Could’nt be Done

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 30 July 1915, Page 3

Could’nt be Done

Men are curious creatures. They will notice the most insignificant detail or they will fail to observe what seem patent to everybody. Neither attitude, however can be depended upon, and in any and all circumstances they will be unable to give a why or wherefore for their conduct. It was only the other day that a certain man observed to his wife : “I do wish, my dear, that you’d get a veil like one Mrs Blank wears It is so pretty. Isaw her to-day, and I noticed her veil at once, it was so different, Bomehiw, from what most women wear. I can’t describe it, you know, but it seems to me it was black. I know it wasn’t one of your flimsy, floppy sort of veils, but quite thick, and , it was draped so gracefully upon her bonnet. I’m sure it would bo becoming to you ” “ Very li rely,” returned the j wife, as soon as she had recovered herself. “But tha , only way you could make it possible for me to wear such a , veil would be for you to die. ( Mrs Blank, my dear, lost her husband only a few months | ago, and the veil that you so admire is her morning veil.”