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The Autobiography of Methuselah

CHAPTER IV
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You might just as well hitch up a pair of thoroughbred elephants to a milk wagon.

It will do, as Adam says, for the Mollycoddle and the meticulous weakling, but never for a real man worthy of the name.

But after all that is no reason why woman should be shorn of one of her chief glories, and I totally disagree with him in his condemnation of all clothes just because some of them are conceived in foolishness.

Dresses can be made to button up at the side, or in front, and when I think of some of the new fall styles that are coming in I find myself regretting that I am over five hundred years old, and cannot with strict propriety, go in for them myself.

Take those little chiffon--" And so the dear old lady went on into an enthusiastic disquisition on the glories of dress that was so intimately feminine that I hesitate to attempt to quote her words in this place, knowing little as I do on the subject, and hardly able myself to tell the difference between a gimp and a cafe parfait.


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