Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-06-19
HER SPRING HAT.
How the Average Woman
Constructs Her Head Gear.

A woman who is considering the mat
ter 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 hurricane and
then set down on by an entire Cor
oner's jury. After that,w hen she rides
in street car she drinks in the details
of every spring hat that enters, 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 Ike that gam
dy-looking creature in the middle. And
when she walks down the street and
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 disgusted to see
that the woman is also dislocating her
neck, to see how she trims her hat.
When she arrives in front of the milli-
merry store she fingers until she has ana
lyzed all the spring hats in the window
and she determines to trim hers nine
teen 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 s'see hats" with the
air of person who has whole female
seminary to rig out with eight dollar
head gear. She examines every hat in
the establishment, over hauls ten bush
els of flowers, gets about twenty dollars
worth of work out of the sales-woman,
and then says she goes home with her
mind fixed on thirty-eight or nine diff |
ferent 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. Atlast she resolves she
will. Then she lies awake for two more
nights endeavoring to determine wheth-
er 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 deepest anxiety as to
whether the feather should go on the
right side, or the LEFT side, or on top.
She puts it on the right side, but just
then Mrs. Brown passes the front win
dow with a feather on the left side of
hers, and so she changes it. The next
Mrs. Ferguson calls, and her
feather is on the right side and then an
other changeis made. At church the
next day Mrs. Smith has feathers on
both sides, and Mrs. johnson has on the
top. Then mole sleepless nights and
more fainfnl uncertainty. At last, in
utter dispair, she takes the hat to mil
liner and pays ten dollars to have it
ii immed. When it comes home she
pronounces it "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 a 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
and goes out to make millions Of other
miserable, because their hats are
not trimmed exactly like hers. As a
wife, woman is blessing; as mother
,he is an inestimable boon ;as an Organ-1
yer of spring hats, she is simply an OBJ
ect of compassion.-Saturddy Evsni,g
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