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English: "Mary Malin was the first caller at the Terry house. Togtown women don't call quickly. I think myself it is best to wait until you are sure a new neighbor issettled before you bother her with calling. Mary thinks she knows just how to do things. She has just come home from college and has tailor-made clothes and seems to consider herself a little better than most folks. I suppose she and Mrs. Terry will be great friends. I'd like to have Martha get in with Mrs. Terry, but I shan't run after her an inch. Mary wore her brown etamine. She had cleaned the lace in the sleeves. I suppose she thought Mrs. Terry would think it was new. Mary looked well, though. Her skirt was long—longer than Martha wears hers. They say they are wearing them longer, though, this spring. The skirt was laid in box pleats, turned in, and stitched down to just below the knees and let to fly open; that made the fullness, which is set into a turnback cuff of white trimmed with braid. In the cuff was gathered some really beautiful Chantilly lace— I don't blame Mary for cleaning it. She wore white gloves the day she called on Mrs. Terry, and carried a little card case. I wouldn't for anything do things just because someone else did. Mary wore a bow of chiffon under her chin, and I know it was because she saw Mrs. Terry's at church. No one ever wore them in Togtown except Mrs. Terry. I'd just fixed one for Martha's blue broadcloth, but I shan't let her wear it now. Mary's hat was a new one. It was of brown straw with a fold of canary-colored ribbon round it and a fall of yellow roses down the back. She wore her hat way down over her eyes. Mrs. Terry never does. And it is remarkable what a difference it makes in anybody's looks. Mrs. Terry looks twice as young as some of the girls, and it is because she wears her hats well up from her face."