The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1873-06-25
HER SPRING HAT-HOW TIE AV-
ERAGE WOMAN CONSTRUCTS HER
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Max Adeler, in the Saturday Evening

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Max Adeler, in the Saturday Evening
Post.
A woman who is considering the matter
Of her spring hat is an interesting subject
for contemplation. 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 coroners' jury. After that,
when she rides in stleet-car. she drinks
ip the details Of every spring hat that en-
tiers, and learns them all by heart, and
does mental sums over the cost Of the rib
bon, and makes up her mind, Ito have flow
ers 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 a wo-
man 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 analyzed all the spring hats in the win
dow. and she determines TO trim hers nine
teen different ways. and decides not to have
flowers like the woman who sat in the cor
ner. Then she shoots into the store and
asks to see bats. with the air Of person
who has whole female seminary to rig
out with eighty-dollar head-gear. She ex-
amines every hat in the establishment, O.
yerhauls ten bushels Of. flowers. gets about
twenty dollars worth of work out Of the
saleswoman, and then says she viii look
further. Then she goes home with her
mind fixed on thirty light or nine differ
ent styles in which she wants to trim her
hat. After awhile she begins to think
she ought to have feather III it. and she
passes two or three sleepless nights trying
to decide whether to put afaass6 She lies
lasa ses sIS sRSggts more endeavorng to de-
termine whether it shall be red or 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 pas
ses the front window with feather on the
left side of hers. and so she changes it.
The next morning Mrs. Ferguson calls
aud her feather is on the right side. and
then another change is made. At church
the next day Mrs. Smith has feathers or
both sides, and Mrs. johnson has one OF
top. Then more sleepless nights and more
painful uncertainty. AT last, in utter de.
spair she takes the hat to o milliner ant
pays ten dollars to nave il trimmed. Wher
it comes home she pronounces il hateful,
and picks it all to pieces, and broods over
and worries and frets, and loses her appe
tite, and feels life to be burden for I
week or two longer, til,suadenly she hit
just the right thing, and becomes onc'
more serene and happy, and puts the ha
on and goes out make millions Of other wo
men miserable because their bats are no
trimmed exactly like hers. As wife wo
man is blessing; as mother she is an 10
estimatle boon; as an organizer OF sprin
hats she is simply an object of compassion