Fashion and a singing mouse headline a quirky column
The piece rails at women’s fashions with Oliver Wendell Holmes style satire on long trains and pretentious dress. It then narrates a true tale of a rare singing mouse in a household canary cage and ends with a comic scene of a Chicago traveler in a Bedford girl’s yard.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Europe
Boston
David
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Chicago
Bedford
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