Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19
SPRING HATS.

How the Average WOma'n Coaktructs
Her Head-Gear-A VeIIy LtteraI Y1ic.
Iure-W0man. as an Organizer of
Spring Hats.
woman who is Considering the matter
OF her Sprlng nat IS an Interesting sui Jiect
for contemplation. First she buys s traw
frame that looks as if it had been struck by
hurricane and then sat down on by an
entire Coroner's Jury. After that when
she rides IN street car she drinks Ia the
details of every Spring hat that enters, ard
learns them by heart, and does mental
sums over the cost OF the ribbon, and
makes up her mind to have flowers in hers
like those worn by the woman in the cor
ner, and lace like That gaudy-looking Great
ure in the middle And when she walks
down the street she studies all the. hats
that come along, and when a woman
passes her with one on, she twists her
neck around to see how it looks behind
and is disguised to see that the woman is
also dislocatirg her neck to see how she
trims her hat. When she arrives in
front of millinery store size fingers until
she has analysed all the Spring. hats in the
window, and she determines to trim hers
nineteen different Ts,s, and decides not
to have flowers like the wor nan who sat in
the corner. Then she shor its into the store
and asks to "sse hats" with the air
of a person wb,o has a whole fe-
male seminary to rig out with eighty dol
lar head.gear. me examines every hat in
tne ESTABLISHING ut, overhauls ten bushels Of
flowers, gets > .oout twenty dollars worth OF
work out OF The saleswoman, and then says
she will .ook further" Then she goes
home W. .h her mind fixed on thirty eight
| OF nlilp otplau IL, NzvbiRh 1hn wants
10 tn n her bat. After awhile she thinks
she ought 10 have a feather in it, and she
p -sses two or three sleepless nights trying
! 60 decide whether to put one on or not.
At last she resolves she will. Then she
lies awake for two more nights endeavor-
ing to determine whether it shall be red OF
blue. She fixes on blue. She buys the
trimming and sows it on in seventy success
sive positions, her mind filed with deep
, est anxiety as to whether the feather
j should go on the right side, the left side, o.
, on top. She puts it on the right side, but jus
then Mrs. Brown passes the front window
with a feather on the left side of hers, anC
so she changes il. The next morning Mrs.
Ferguson calls, aud her feather is on tn
right side, and then another change is made
AT church the next day Mrs. Smith ha
feathers on both sides, and Mrs. johnson
has one on top. Then more sleepless night
and more painful uncertainty. At last, il
= utter despair she takes the hat to milline
, | and paws ten dollars to have 1t trimmed
When it comes home she pronounces
"hateful," and picks it al to pieces, ant
broods over it, and worries and frets, ant
loses her appetite, and feels life to be a buI
, den for two weeks longer, until suddenl
she hits just the right thing, and becomes
; once more serene and happy, and puts tn
| hat on aud goes out and makes millions o.
other women miserable because their hat
r are not trimmed exactly like hers. As
wife, woman is blessings as a mother, sh
is an inestimable boon; as an organizer c
}. spring hats, she is simply an object of com
passiOn.-Mdr AdeLer.