Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-12-03
PRICE OF A BONNET.

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She had mildly limited that she didn't care
TO go to church again until she had her
summer bonnet, but at the mention Of bon
net he turned around and belched ont:
"Bonnetl Mother new bonneti Why
don't you 60 down and buy out every infer
nal bonnet foundry on Woodward avenue
and done with It'll"
"I haven't had but one this spring." shs
meekly protested. T ' 'r'~-s-sf ~
"Onel Why, you've had forty" a y
"Only one, my dear, and can show you
the bill"
"Well, that cost forty or fifty dollars"
"Oh, no! The bill is only nineteen
dollars" ~
"Nineteen dollars! Well, that's an out
rageous swindle."
"It was very plain bonnet" she re-
marked, and it was only for spring."
"How much will a summer hat costi "
he asked after reading down to the end of q
column. ~
"Well, I'll try to get along with ten or
twelve dollars, but you"
"Ten or twelve demons, he yelled as he
half-rose up. ~ tell you it's an outrageous
swindle, and no one but an idiot would sub
init They tack the price on because they
think you don't know bran from broom
sticks.
"Then you go down with me and make
the purchase"
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"Egad l. I will. I'll go this very day,
and if don't buy better bonnet for 81
than you have ever had for $40 I'll eat shin
gles."
That afternoon they entered a millinery
store in company, and the old gent had the
look of man who was bound to win if it
broke leg.
"My wife wants bonnet" he began, as
he got settled down on stool.
"Very well. About what price?"
essay from $4 to &c."
eyes, sir. Here is one for 81. 1t is
for kitchen girl on Sixteenth street, and I
call it an elegant thing for the money"
"I-I guess we don't want one for four
dollars" he muttered, as chill flew up his
spine.
j cts very cheap, 1 assure you, and the
colors are very popular with kitchen girls,
but here is one for &c."
"Ah! that is more like it'll Now 1 call
that handsome"
| $50 it is, sir. That is for second-gir
on Winder street, and she certainly has
Igood taste. 1t is the cheapest bonnet /
made for year"
Yes-ahem-no doubt F" 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 barber's wife
for eight dollars, but 1 could get you up the
mate to it if you want"
i "Barber's wife-ahem-eight dollars
and this one?"
4 "Well, made the price very low on that
one, as it is for seamstress who always
buys of me. only charged her twelve dol
lars for it,"
Il "Seamstress, Ell ?"
!, eyes. She goes out for seventy five
any better than this"
Il Old MILESTONE was as red as q strawberry
by this time, and it was only by a tremen-
, dous effort of will that he could repress o
"gosh darn it,"
"You wouldn't care to look at this six
J teen dollar bonnet, as it is for mechanics
t wife," softly remarked the milliner.
"No-ahem-perhaps not" he grunted.
"But this one at 500 might possibly do, -
she went on, i" although your wifes posi-
3 ton in society would only permit her to
wear it for second best. Just wait and I'll
show you something for $25 which will
charm YOU"
81 won't! I'll be hanged if l wait min
. ute," he exclaimed, as he rose up. 81
don't feel very well, and I've also agreed to
meet man at the City Hall at 8 o'clock.
You go ahead and pick out bonnet"
= Zone for-for-for four dollars" she
whispered.
"Four be-hangs! Who said anything
!. about four dollars !? If you can make one
i for 500 do you, I'd take it; but If you look
{. better in one for $25, yon can have it sent
up. What was scolding about this morn-
j ing was the shape of your bonnet-not the
. cost still hold that the shapes are out
rageous; 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
z aud yelled:
eff man had played that on me, I'd
. hunt him to his narrow grave. ."--De6roh
Tree Pres.
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