Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-03

HER SPRING HARLOW THE AVERAGE
WOMAN CONSTRUCTS HER HEAD. D.GEAR.-A
woman who is considering the matter Of her
spring hat is an interesting subject for contem-
plation. First she buys a straw frame that
looks as if it had been struck by a hurricane
and then sat down on by an entire coroner's
Jury. After that, she rides in street car, she
drinks in the details of every spring hat that
enters 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 gaudy looking creature in
the middle. And when she walks down the
street and studies all the hats that come along,
and when woman passes her with one on,
she twists her neck around to see how it looks
behind, and is disgusted to see that the woman
is also dislocating her neck, to see how she
trims her hat. When she arrives in front Of
millinery store, she fingers until she has an.
alyzed all the spring hats in the window, 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 person who has a whole fe-
male seminary to rig out with eighty'dollar
head.gear. She examines every hat in the es-
tablishment overhauls ten bushels Of flowers,
gets about twenty dollars worth of work out
of the saleswoman, and then says she will
"look further" Then she goes home with her
mind fixed on thirty.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, and she passes two or
three sleepless nights trying to decide whether
to put one on or not At last she resolves she
will. Then she lies awake two more nights
endeavoring to determine whether it shall be
red or blue. She fixes on blue. She buys the
trimming and sews it on in seventy successive
positions, her mind filled with the deepest
anxiety as to whether the feather should go
on the right side, the left side, or on top. She
puts it on the right side,, but just then Mrs.
Brown passes the front window with feather
on the left side of hers, and so she changes it..
The next morning, Mrs. Ferguson calls, and
her feather is on the right side and another
change is made. At church, the next day,
Mrs. Smith has feathers on both sides, and
Mrs. johnson has one on top. Then more
sleepless nights and more painful uncertainty.
At last, in utter despair, she takes the hat to
a milliner and pays ten dollars to have it
trimmed. When it comes home, she pro-
nounces it "hateful," and picks it all to pieces,
and broods over it, and worries and frets, and
loses her appetite, and feels life to be a bur-
den 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 and goes out to make millions of other
women miserable, because their hats are not
trimmed exactly like hers: AS wife, woman
is a blessing as mother, she is an inestima'
BILE boon; as an organizer of spring hats, she
is simply an object of compassion Ad-
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