Connecticut western news., 1881-06-29
A MAN IN A MILLINERY STORE.
Getting His Eyes Open to the Cost
 of Head Gear.

Getting His Eyes Open to the Cost
 of Head Gear.
 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: ..qar ,s.-
 Bonnet! Mother new bonnet Why don't you go down and buy out every internal bonnet foundry on Wood ward avenue and done with it P
 "I havn't had but one this spring, /" she meek1y protested. -'"'ss-.=
 "One Why, you've had forty p
 "Only one, my dear, and I can show you the bill." ,. .,H[ e,.; .r
 "Well, that cost forty or fifty dol lars.'' ..'.'.
 ''Oh, no. The bill is only nineteen dollars" -...tI +-.
 Nineteen dollars We'll, that's an outrageous swindle l" ei d@
 'It IS very plain bonnet" she remarked, t'and it was only for spring. "
 "How much will summer hat cost ?" he asked, after reading down to the end of column.
 "Well, I'll try to get along with ten or twelve dollars, but you" snf.
 "Ten or twelve demons p he yelled as he half rose up. ''I tell you it's an outrageous swindle, and no one but an idiot would submit 1 They tack the price on because they think you don't know bran from broomsticks r
 'Then you go down with me and make the purchase.
 "Egad I will I'll go this very day, and if I don't buy better bonnet for $4 than you have ever had for $1O I'll eat shingles p
 That afternoon they entered milli- nery store in company, and the old gent had the look of man who was bound to win if it broke leg.
 "My wife wants a bonnet," he began, as he got settled down on stool.
 'Very we'll. About what price?"
 "Say from $4 to &C.,"
 "Yes, sir. Here is one for $4. It is for kitchen girl on Sixteenth street, and call it an elegant thing for the money"
 CT guess we don't want one $4, {" he muttered, as chill flew up his spine.
 "It's very cheap, assure you, and the colors are very popular with kitchen girls, but here is one for &C.,"
 "Ah, that is more like it Now, I call that handsome.
 'So it is, sir. This is for second girl on Winder street, and she certainly has good taste. It is the cheapest bon net have made for 8 year."
 "Yes-ahem-no doubt !'' gasped the old gent as red streaks began to color his neck and chin. "And what's the price of this one ?"
 "That? That IS sold to 8 barber's wife for $8, but I could get you up the mate to it if you want"
 ''Barber's wife-ahem-$8-and this one?"
 "Well, I made the price very low on that one, as it is for seamstress who always buys of me. only charged her SIP for that.
 ''Seamstress, eh ?"
 "Yes. She goes out for 75 cents per day, and of course she can't afford any better than this."
 Old Milestone was as red as straw berry by this time, and it was only by a tremendous effort of will that he could repress "gosh darn it p
 "You wouldn't care to look at this $16 bonnet, as it is for mechanics wife," softly remarked the milliner.
 sNo-ahem perhaps not, he grunt- ed.
 'But this one at $2O might possibly do," she went on, although your wife's position in society would only permit her to wear it for second best. Just wait and I'll show you something for 1925 which will charm you"
 "I won't! I'll be hanged if I wait a minute P he exclaimed, as he rose up.
 "I don't feel very well, and I've also agreed 10 meet man at the City Hall at three o'clock. Martha, you go ahead and pick out bonnet"
 "One -for-for $4," she whis- pered.
 'sFour be-hangs Who said anything about $4? If you can make one for $2O do you, I'd take it; but if you look bet ter in one for $25, you can have it sent up. What I was scolding about this morning was the shape of your bonnet not the cost. I still hold that the shapes are outrageous; but you've got to have one all the same."
 And when he got outdoors and around the corner, he struck the air with his cane and yelled:
 of man had played that on me, I'd hunt him to his narrow grave !''- Detroit Free Press. c.