Curb service at the Miami roadside stand was rendered by a young lucly who fastened a metal tray to the side of the door of my automobile, says Theodore Pratt in the "New Yorker." The first time I heard her call out "Hug one!" in answer to my order of a glass of orange juice, I knew that here was something for extensive research.
Gladys, the curb girl who served me thus as I sat comfortably in my car, was a buxom citizen of the American highway who made the most out of her blooming form by covering it with black satin slacks and a tight-fitting pink satin blouse. Her ash-bland hair, caressed with at least a five-dollar wave, was worthy of a movie star's, and her makeup fitted well into the same picture.
Seeing that I was new at her game, she took pains to educate me. On my second visit, after I had ordered a glass of draught beer and she had yelled "Make it a creep!" she reminded me that I had been remiss about something on my first visit. "Us curbies," she informed me, "don't get no salary for hanging these trays. We make it on tips."
I took this delicate hint that day, and adopted it also on my next visit, when TI ordered a chocolate malted ys called to the counter That day she taught me more in regard to the etiquette of obtaining curb service. I had been looting my horn, when I was through with my drink, to indicate to Gladys that she should come and remove the tray, "Real gentlemen just blink their lights when they're through," she instructed me, "instead of making all that racket. It's more genteel and it ain't so hard on the nerves."
Subsequently I became more genteel Pastel Tints are Smart Black with pastel trimmings is to be smart and makes black suitable for the youngest wearers as well as more becoming to the dark-skinned, The trimmings may be in the form. of pale blue linen tabs making a collar and decoration at the wrists of a black dress, or turn-down collar of pastel pink' muslin, complete with frilled edging, A clover-coloured silk scarf at the neck of a navy jacket, and a wide clover ribbon band round a navy-blue hat are attractive notions, Pale -yellow combines with brown in tweedy suits and a brown, yellow, and white check tweed would be hard to better for a light-hearted looking suit that is also hard-wearing and generally useful,
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