The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-18

WOMAN CONSTRUCTS HER HEAD.GEAR.-
A woman who Is consideripg the matter
OF her spring hat is an interesting sub
ject for contemplation. First she buys q
straw frame that looks as il it had been
struck by hurricane and then sat down
on by an entire ooroner's Jury. After
that, when she rides in street cor, she
drinks in the details of every spring hat
that cnters, and learns them all 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 corner, and lace like
that 'gauiy-lo king creature in the mid
die. And when she walks down the
street aud studies all the hats that come
along, and when woman passes her
with one on, she twists her ueck around
to see how it looks behind, and is dis
gusted to see that the woman is also dis
locuting her neck, to see how she trims
her hat. When she arrives in front OF q
millinery store, she fingers until she has
analyzed all the spring hats in the win
DOW, and she determines to trim hers
nineteen different ways, and decides not
to have Howars 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 whole female semi
nary to rig out with eighty dollar head
gear. She examines every hat in the
establishment, overhau!s ten bushels of
Aowers. gets about twenty dollars worth
OF work out of the soleswoman, end then
says she will ''iook further" Then she
goes homo with her mind fixed on thirty
eight or nine different styles in which
she wants to trim her hat. After awhile,
she bagins to think she ought to have a
feather in it, and she passes two or three
sieepless nights trying to decide whether
to put one on CT. not At last, sho re-
solves she will. Then she lies awake for
two more nights endeavoriug to deter.
mine whether it shall be red or blue.
She f4es on blue. She buys the trim
ming and sews. it on in seventy success
siye positions, her mind filled with the
deepest anxiety as to whether the fea-
ther should go on the right side, the left
side, OF, on top. She pats it on the right
side, but inst then Mrs. Brown passes
the front window with feather OIL tie
LETT side OF hers, and SO she ohanges It.
The next morning, Mrs. Ferguson calls,
aud hep feather is on the right aide. and
then another change ia made. At
church, the next day, Mrs. Smith has
feathers on both sides, and Mrs johnson
has one on top. Then more slcepless
nights aud more painful uncertainty.
At last, in utter despair, she takes the
hat to milliner and pays ten dollars to
have it trimmed. When it comes home,
che pronounces it 'hateiul," and picks
it all to pieces. aud broods over it, and
worries 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
hat on aud goes out to make millions OF
other women miserable. because their
hats are not trimmed exactly like hers.
AS wife, woman is blessing; as q
mother, she is an inesiimaole boon; as
an organizer OF spring hats, she is sim.
ply an object Of compassion.
.Nuc Ade'er.