Nothing Like Being Definite.

Otago Witness, Issue 2308, 26 May 1898, Page 52

Nothing Like Being Definite.

Watson was sitting at his desk one evening when liis wife said : —

'* My dear, will you send a note to Sylk and Sattin and tell them I must have the five yards of lining that I bought there yesterday? They said they'd send it at once, and I must have it to-morrow, for the dressmaker will be here the next day."

So Watson wrote as follows: "Messrs Sylk and Sattin, — Will you please send at one© the five yards of lining my wife purchased yesterday?" " Let me see what you have written," said Mrs Watson.

" Oh, dear," she said, after reading it, " That isn't half positive and definite enough. They'll pay no attention to that. I'll sit down and write to them myself."

And this was what she wrote: " Messrs Sylk and Sattin, — You will remember that I was in your shop at about 10 o'clock yesterday morning (or it may have been a3 late as 10.30), and I purchased five yards of percaline for dress lining. One of the assistants at the lining counter will remember about it. The ' one I bought it of was tall and slender, with dark eyes, and I remember that she had on a red silk waist trimmed with blaok velvet, and a red and green plaid skirt. She will remember that I purchased the lining of her and she fromised me that it would be sent sure to-day, t lias not pome, and it would not make any I particular difference, only that my dressmaker ; fa coming the day after and she Sill need tho lining the first ibln&. aM can>

not go to work without it, and her engagements are such that" she cannot come to me any day but the day after to-morrow and the next day, s,o if the lining should not come it would put her back so that she could not finish the dress, and I cannot get her again for nearly a month, and I simply must have the dress by next week, and I am too busy to come to-morrow and get the lining. The lady I spoke of with the red silk waist will be sure to remember about it, and I told her just why and when I wanted it, and she promised me that it would be sure to come. Of course it may come before you get this, and if so it will be all right, but I simply must have it before the dressmaker gets here, for she will want to go to work on the skirt the first thing, and she cannot if sh« does not have the lining. Please send it immediately. " P.S. — Five yards of percaline skirt lining at Is 2d a yard, bought of assistant in red silk waist and plaid skirt, to be pent yesterday, and has not come. Mugt have it to-morrow, " There," said Mrs Watson, as she folded the letter, " that will make it all dear to them."