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* * * * * In order to understand the Tessie of to-day you will have to know the Tessie of six months ago ; Tessie the impudent , the life-loving , the pleasureful . Tessie Golden could say things to the escapement-room foreman that any one else would have been fired for . Her wide mouth was capable of glorious insolences . Whenever you heard shrieks of laughter from the girls ' wash room at noon you knew that Tessie was holding forth to an admiring group . She was a born mimic ; audacious , agile , and with the gift of burlesque . The autumn that Angie Hatton came home from Europe wearing the first hobble skirt that Chippewa had ever seen Tessie gave an imitation of that advanced young woman 's progress down Grand Avenue in this restricted garment . The thing was cruel in its fidelity , though containing just enough exaggeration to make it artistic .