Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-07-03
HER SpkiNG HAr- How THE AVER

AGE WOMAN CONSTRUCTS HER HEAR.
GEAR.- Max Adeler, in the Soyl Dkdost
Epe'eing Post. "A woman who is con-
sidering the matter of her spring hat is
an interesting subject for comtempla.
ton. First she buys straw frame
that looks as if it had been struck by
hurricane and then sat down on by ali
entire cofoners jiiry After that, when
she rides in streetcar, she drinks in
the details of every spring hat that en-
tiers, and learns them all by heart, and
does mental sums over tile cost of the
ribbon, and makes up her mind to have
flowers i'm hers like those worn by tl6
womaG in the corner, and lace like that
gatdy looking creature in the middle.
And when she walks down tho street
and studies all the hats that Goihe along,
and When woman passes her with one
on, she twists kef tieck around to see
how it looks behind, and is disguised
to see that the womaff is also disloeat-
ing her neck, to see low size films her
hat When she arrives in front Of
millinery store she fingers until she has
analysed all the spring hats in the win
dow, and she determines to trim hers
nineteen different ways, and decides NOT
to have flowers like the woman who
sat in the corner. Then she
shoots into the store and asks to
"see hats, with the air of a person who
has a whole female seminary to rig out
with eighty-dollar head gear. She ex-
aminos every hat in the establishment
uverhauls ten bushels flowers, gets
about twenty dollars worth of work
ont of the saleswoman, and then says
she will ''look further Then she
goes homie with her mind fixed on
tEirty-eight Or nine different styles in
which she wants to trim her hat After
awhile she begins to think she ought to-
have feather in it, ahd she i,asses two
or three sleepless nights trying to de-
eide whether to put one on OF not. Ae
last she resolves SHE will Then she
lies awake fer two more nights endeav-
oring to determine whether it shall lie
rel or blue. She fixes on blue. Slie
buys the trimming and sews it on hi
seventy successive positions, her mind
filed with the deepest Anxiety as to
whether the feather should ge on the
right side, tile leftside, or on top. She
puts it on tie right side, but just then
Mrs. Brown passes the front window
with feather on tile left slile of hers,
and so she changes it. The next morn
ing Mrs. Ferguson calls, and her featli
er is on the right side, and then another
change is made. AT church the
next day Mrs. Smith has feathers OH
both sides, and Mrs Johnson has Que
on top. Then more sleepless nights
and moro painful uncertainty. At last,
in utter despair she takes the hat to
milliner and pays ten dollars to have it
trimmed. When it GENES home she
pronounces it g hateful" and picks it all
to pieces, and broods over it, and wor
ries and frets, and loses her appetite,
and feels life to be burden for week
or two longer, until suddenly she hits
just the right thing, and becomes once
more serene and happy, and puts the
nat ON and goes out to make millions
of other women miserable, because their
hats are not trimmed exactly like hers.
As Il wife woman is blessing; as .
mother, she is an inestimable boon as
an organizer Of spring hats, she is simp-
ly all object.ef compassion. ...