Fanny Herself - Classic Reprint Author:Edna Ferber FANNY HERSELF 21 — worn by the Winnebago young men their straw sailors were likely to be saw-edged when the local edges were smooth, and their costs were more flaring, or their trousers wider than tlie costs and trousers of the AVin- nebago boys they were not, for the most part, the gay dogs that Winnebago s fancy painted them. Many of them were ... more »very lonely married men who missed their wives and babies, and loathed the cuspidored discom* fort of the small-town hotel lobby. They appreciated Mrs. Brandeis' good-natured sympathy, and gave her the long end of a deal when they could* It was Sam Kiser who had begged her to listen to his advice to put m Battenberg patterns and braid, long before the Battenberg epidemic had become widespread and virulent.
"Now listen to me, Mrs. Brandeis," he begged, almost tearfully. "You're a smart woman. Don't let this get by you. You know that I know that a salesman would have as much chance to sell you a gold brick as to sell old John D. Rockefeller
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