The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-23
RECOILECTIONs OF A SHADE-HAT.

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RECOILECTIONS OF A SHADE-HAT.
''See, Nellie, here is. just what you
want; it will shade your eyes nicely,
and be becoming, too.
A pleasant voice spoke close beside
the counter, where l lay piled up with
q multiti de of the ''latest out. :"
The next instant was picked up by
n firm hand, which belonged to an at
tractive-looking young woman, who
gave my brim dip one way and bend
the other, held me up in several atti-
tudes, walked with me to the mirror.
set me back on her head, pulled me
down over her eyes, and then tried a
medium course, moved away, took
view from over her shoulder, took me
off again, and at last replied reflect
lively:
ayes, | think could make it do"
So she bought me, and at her order
was trimmed with some scarlet pop
pies, and lovely creamy muslin, and
sent home.
| was very observant and attentive.
and soon learned that Nellie had refused
to go with some of her friends to a
fashionable watering-plac where, as
she said, 'you dress, and go to dinner;
dress, and walk out; dress, and sit on
the piazza; dress, and 60 to the hop'
No, she preferred to 60 to the truly
country, have no one to bother her, and
stay out-of-d doors from morning till
night.
You'll get tired OF that, Miss Nell"
gotA 10 yhn 10 bo,.
the day we left You'll get tired OF
that, and you Il wish you had gone with
us.
"Well, have your address. and l
can find my way to the station, y laughed
Nellie. "Would you have me in Gase 1
repented, and wanted to come?'
- Yes, indeed, and if you promise to
come as soon as you want to, it will not
be very long before we see you"
"pll give you time to unpack before
you send the carriage for me.
Then she put me on, babe her friends
good-by, and we were of.
l think the young lady must have got
tired waiting for her, because we did
not grow weary of it at all. Nellie's
little brother was with us, but he soon
found more boys, who took up his en-
tire attention, and he seldom went with
us in our walks among the hills and
valleys.
We had a lovely time. Nellie told
Mrs Grant, in whose hall hung when
at leisure, when she wished there
was more there to interest her,
she would like to have the days
iorty-eight hours long, so that she
might have more room to put the en-
joyment she found in everything about
her.
can not tell how long we had been
there, when, coming in from walk ne
afternoon, we found a broad brimmed,
black banded panama hat hanging on
my own particular peg. | was so angry
at the intrusion that | fell down three
times while Nellie was tryin to hang
me, and at last was put in another
p ace by sheer force.
The interoper was afterward worn
by gentleman, who called Mrs. Grant
auntie, and whom Nellie addressed as
DR.. Wentworth.
l thought him very fine young man,
but Nellie did not appear articularly
impressed, and several times I thou mt
he would like to have joined us when
we went out in the morning, but she
gave him no encouragement TO do so.
One day, however, we cot into diff
Guilty. We were sauntering along
through some charming woodland; Mel
lie swun me from one hand, while the
other held her sachel containing her
novel, sketch-book and worsted work.
We were enjoyin ourselves very much,
when wh-r-r! buzz and the whole air
seemed full OF wings! Somethin flew
against Nellie with sudden force, and
the next thing knew / was lying on
the ground and she was in full retreat
in the opposite direction.
do not know how she felt but was
scared. Would she never come backp
Was | to lie there always till sun, wind
and rain had done their worstP
had almost despaired of ever seeing
any one again, when big dog rushed
up and seized me, and with few
bounds laid me-yes, would you believe
itP-right at Nellies feet. | was so
glad. And there was DR.. Wentworth
with game-bag and gun ready to pick
me up.
came up just in time to hear him
tell how he was frightened the same way
once when he was small boy, before
he knew the ways of cartridges.
They are shy enough, usually" he
said ''but when there is brood OF lit
tie ones, like those you happened on
Just now, they are only too ready to fly
in your face"
After that we used to encounter him
often, and he and Nellie came to be
very good friends, till one day / was
electrified by hearing him say some
thing which sounded exactly like the
boo heard people reading and talk
ing about
| was so agitated that every popp5 Z
trembled.
II can not read the stories mvself.n
thou hit |, "but is it possible that / am
to witness a genuine love affairP''
Such seemed to be the indications.
but as time pass d on found / did not
have all the opportunities for observa
ton that mi 2ht have wished, for DR..
Wentworth very often declared that I
was in the way, and would quietly re-
move, and set me quite aside, where
could not see what was DING on, nor
yet quite set the full import OF their
c nversatic n. But once / heard a soft
rustic used to hear in the wheat field.
long before was a hat.
We were all very happy to ether for
some time. | even grew to tolerate the
broad brmmed, black banded Panama,
we We're thrown aside to gether so often.
But, after time, there came serious
change l never knew what it was
about, OF how it happened, and proba-
bly, never shall, so long as there is one
straw OF my ana omy left upon another.
My wearer and the doctor stopped
going out together, met very seldom,
and when they did see each Their the