THE STORY OF A BODICE.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 37, 12 August 1905, Page 11

THE STORY OF A BODICE.

I am reminded (writes a correspondent of M.A.P.) by the story of Mrs. Gladstone's bewailment over the absence of a pin in her husband's necktie in last week's M.A.P., of an occasion when Mrs. Gladstone had cause to deplore the presence of a pin too many. W'liile residing at Hawarden Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone had accepted an invitation to stay from Saturday to Monday at a vicarage some miles distant. Aware that the accommodation at the vicarage was somewhat limited,' Mrs. Gladstone, with characteristic thoughttulness, decided to dispense with the services of her maid, instructing that "young person" to pack her things carefully and put everything ready to hand. When Mrs. Gladstone, while dressing for dinner in tho evening, had put on the skirt of her gown, the bodice was nowhere to be found. After an exhaustive search, Mrs. Gladstone came to the conclusion that it had been lefb behind. However, with ready resource, she draped! her shoulders with a. black crepe-dc-chine shawl, excusing its presence, on descending, by explaining that "the evenings were becoming remarkably chilly." When, however, she was being escorted into the dining-room by her host, a titter behind her became so distinct that she asked the cause, and no one joined more heartily in the general merriment than .she on learing that the truant bodice was carefully secured to her skirt by a. pin, and was trailing behind her.