CHOOSING CHOUX.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 532, 12 June 1909, Page 11

CHOOSING CHOUX.

"Yes," said Gladys Gwendolyn to her friend, as they parted at the corner of the avenue, "yonr new suit is lovely, dear, and screamingly becoming. But it would improve the: effect if you'd get one of those soft': bunches of malices, a chou, you know, ond wear it at the back of your neck." ; "I believe you're right," agreed Ermyntrudo;' "I'll go right ,ia to Moneymaker's and get one now." The two girls parted/and Ermyntrude entered the big department store. "Where shall 1 find chouxf" , she asked of an affable floorwalker. "Third floor, maflam; take the elevator." On the third floor Ermyntrude again asked directions: — ' ! "Where are the choux, please?" "Ties?" "Why,, yes—sort- of ties, I suppose. But they're called choux. I want black ones." "Shoe department, three aisles to the left." ,'. /, . ■;.,,... : , "Oli, I don't mean that kind." "AH kinds are there." •• "But I don't mean shoes at all. I mean choux. ' I want black ones and white ones both/ , ,:;-... . ; "You will find,all colours in the shoo department." "1 don't want shoes at all! I want choux, laco ones, you know." ; ' "The lace shoes and button shoes are both there, madam." :

"Oh, you don't understand me I I want white lace choux, ties, you know, and black ones and tan-colourod, and light blue." "You'll find the blue among tho evening wear; tho others are all in the;regular shoe department.'.' "Oh, have you a regular chou department? I,didn't suppose there was such a demand for.theini I only want one of each colour." ', ■'. "We don't sell them singly, madam." "Oh, it's tho wholesale department, then. Well,: where do you retail choux?" "It is tho Tctail department, but we sell them-only in'pairs." . "You don't understand me yet 1 I want choux!. ,Choux, not shoes! Just one chou, to'wear'at.':thebaclc. of my neck." The floorwalker ■ understood at' last. The poor young thing was crazy! It was pathetic, but she must.be removed from tho storo immediately, .and without creating a commotion.. , . "Yes," he said soothingly—"Yes, you shall have a shoe to wear at the back of your neck, and a mitten to wear, on your left ear, and a cake of soap for a breastpin." Ho had always heard that one must humour the vagaries of a lun.it.ic, and he felt proud of his achievement whon ho saw the irate and'.indignant ypun" woinin start hastily.; toward the elevator, little dreaming she was on her way to rrnort him at the office.—"Glasgow Weekly Herald."