The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-08-04
A NAN IN A MILLINERY STORE.
Purchasing Bonnet for His Wife
His Success.

She had mildly hinted that she didn't
care to go to church again until she had
her summer bonnet, but at the mention
OF bonnet he turned around and belched
out: IL
"Bonnet! Mother new bonnetl Why
don't you go down and buy out every
Internal bonnet foundry on Woodward
avenue and be dohe with It'll" D1
81 haven't had but one this spring"
she meekly protested. e
/ "Onei Why, you've had fortyi'
. "Only one, my dear, and can show
you the BILL" 'f1
"Well, that cost forty or fifty dollars. ,
"Oh, no. The bill is only nineteen
dollars"
"Nineteen dollarsl Well, that's an
outrageous swindle"
SIT is very plain bennett" she re-
marked, 'and it was only for spring"
elbow much will summer hat cost 2"
he asked, after reading down to the end
of column.
"Well, I'll try to get along with ten or
twelve dollars, but you--" -
"Ten or twelve demonsp' he yelled,
as he half rose up. 81 tell you it's an
outrageous sWindle, and no one but an
idiot would submit! They tack the
price on because they think you don't
"Then you go down with me and
make the purchase"
"Egad l will I'll go this very day,
and il don't buy better bonnet for
four dollars than yOI. ever had for ten
dollars Tll eat shingles"
That afternoon they entered milli-
merry store IN company, and the old gent
had the look of man WHO was bound
to win if it broke a leg.
"My wife wants a bonnet" he began
as he got settled down on stool.
every we'll. About what price~
"Say from four dollars to six dollars"
eyes, sir. Here is is one for four
dollars. 1t is for kitchen girl on Six
teenth street, and call it an elegant
thing for the money"
''I-I guess we don't want one for
four dollars" he muttered, as chill
few up hls spine.
"I3s very Cheap, assure you, and the
colors are very popular with the kltch,
ep girls, but here is one for six dollars
"Ah that is more like It'll Now, l
call that handsome" i
$50, it is, sir. That is for a second
girl, and she certainly has good taste.
1t is the cheapest bonnet have made for
a year"
"Yes-ahem-no doubt ~ grasped the
old gent as red streaks began to color
his neck and chin, Sand what's the
price of this one?"
EWell, L made the price very low on
that one, as it is for a seamstreSs who
always buys of me. only-charged her
twelve dollars for that"
sSeamstress, eh?"
eyes. She goes out for seventy-five
cents per day, and, of course, shs can't
afford any better than this"
Old MILESTONE was as red as straw
berry by this time, and it was only by
tremendous effort of will that he could
repress "gosh darn itp
you wouldn't care to look at this six
teen dollar bonnet, as it is for me-
chanic's wife," softly remarked the mil
liner.
"No-ahem-perhaps not" he grunt-
ed.
"But'this one at twenty dollars might
possibly do" she went on, "although
your wife's position in society would
only permit her to wear it for second
best, J9gt wait and I'll show you
something for twenty-five dollars which
will charm yOu."
81 won'tl be hanged If 1 wait a
minute !" he exclaimed, as he rose up
81 don't feel very well, and I've also
agreed to meet man at the City Hail
at o'clock. Martha, you go ahead and
pick out bonnet"
zone for-fOr-for four dollars" she
whispered.
"Four be hangs! Who said anything
about dollars9 Ifyou can make one for
twenty dollars do you, I'd take it; but
if yeu look better in one for twenty-five
dollars you can have it sent up. What
1 was scolding about this morning was
the shape OF your bonnet-rot the cost.
| still hold that the shapes are outra-
geous; but you've got to hsve one all
the same"
And when he got outdoors and
around the corner, he struck the air
with his cane and elled.
"If man had played that on me, I'd
hunt him to his narrow graver'-fF Free
Press.