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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WITH JACKIE
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for this enticingly feminine bit of prettiness was palest pink crepe-de-chine. I could well understand why Jackie's eyes glowed. Even I, staid and prim spinster that I am, eyeglasses and all, glowed at sight of that confection!
The price staggered me, but Jackie paid no heed to it, merely drawing a dainty little white kid-covered check-book, with her name on it in gold, from her hand-bag and coolly writ ing out a check for the fearsome price mentioned.
And on our way out of the shop
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robe in the big Long Beach home. Our afternoon of shopping was much like the morning. There were one or two funny little adventures — as when a »£» little girl, in one
5jAS^^-r,#W of the toy-shops
where Jackie had gone to buy dolls for s o m e adored nieces, recognized her, and screamed the news to her mother, at the other end of the shop :
"Oh, mother,
mother ! come here
quick! Here's Jackie,
mother —
f "N Jackie
A GIFT FOR HER MOTHER AND A GRAPEJUICE HIGHBALL
we saw something quite as attractive in its own way — a frock, all cloth-of-silver, and silver tulle skirts. And right here I might mention that Jackie is the only blonde I have ever met who could wear anything that chills blonde beauty like cloth-of-silver, with no relieving touch of color. Her hair is so warmly gold, her eyes so deeply blue, and her skin so rose-leaf in texture, that silver, instead of chilling her beauty, adds to it.
So it was a foregone conclusion that, when she had slipped into the silver tulle and cloth-of-silver frock, and_found that it fitted her with but little alteration, it would be added to the Saunders ward
Saun
ders !"
J a c kie
b 1 u shed
violently,
m e ditat
ed flight,
but her
purchases were
being wrapped,
and she couldn't sacrifice them, after the
hour she had taken to purchase them,
choosing from the hundreds in the shop.
Seeing her glance toward the door, and
afraid she would escape, the little girl
caught hold of her skirt and begged her