The record-union., 1896-09-28
FIDO CHEWED UP THE HAT.
The Loving Wife Now Does Not rlen-
tiOn Millinery to Her Husband.

"I've come over to see that lovely new
hat of yours said the girl in the linen
gown.
II haven't any new hat" sighed the
young woman in the pink shirt waist.
| Didn't your husband let you have 1t.
| after all? Well, it serves you just
right Why on earth didn't you just
| buy it and have the bill sent to him?"
Because l don't expect to go away at
all this summer. my dear, and l really
shouldn't care to be at home when that
bill arrived. You see, Tom made such
an absurd fuss because I paid as much
for dear F'ido last week 1 really had to
do it, you know, because Adele has al
ready one of the same breed, and the
only way L could keep her from thinking
I had copied her was to pay more for
my pet and pretend that he was a finer
dog
"Oh, 1 never thought of that"
"Yes Well, he made such a scene
about it that, although l really needed
another hat, / didn't like to say so. l
sulked for two days, but he didn't ask
me why, SO L gave up that plan. Finally
| madame told me that Adele was think
| ing of that lovely hat with the plumes,
and / promptly had it sent out on ap-
proval. You see, thought I'd get it if
could, and if not I'd say / didn't like
it, and that would destroy Adele's $
pleasure in the possession of it."
"A good idea. Did
1T happened that Tom had invited
Mr.. GOldie to dinner that evening, and
I decided to ask for it before him, and
he'd hate to refuse me- because he was
SO proud of carrying me off from him.
OF course, l intended to say nothing un-
| til after dinner; l was trying on the hat
in my room when | heard them come in,
| and just whisked it off and threw it on
the bed and rushed downstairs lest Tom
should come to find me and see it before
he'd had anything to eat
yes; mamma always says"
"It was just as we'll I did so, for l
found Tom as mad as hornet, just be-
cause dear little Fido happened to be
| chewing the cover of one of his old
| books. The idea of making such a
| fuss over book which was a hundred
years old, when there are so many new
| ones"
Very true. Did you-'
| Display my pardonable Indignation
| No, dear; just picked up Fido, carried
him upstairs and shut him up in my own
room. 1t was just as we'll, anyhow, for
he has playful habit of getting under
| the dinner table and gnawing at Tom S
feet which sets him Wild"
How mean! The dear little fellow is
only In fun"
"Of course he is. Well, the dinner
passed off beautifully and afterward
the men went out on the porch to smoke.
| 1 let them finish one cigar, then / went
| out perched myself on the arm of Tom S
chair and told him how much / needed
the hat, and how cheap it was at 500"
And he gave it to you, of course?"
| He refused fatty. Mr. Goldie seemed
| somewhat embarrassed and soon left"
Il suppose it made him feel badly to
| hear Tom refuse you anything you
want?"
"M'hm. Still, it wasn't only that You
see, Tom was just striking him for a
| loan at the very moment when 1 came
out and referring pathetically to my
| willing economics!'
Gracious, the case was hopeless,
then!"
! 1T was, and when, a few minutes
later, madames messenger came to
know if / would take the hat, said no
more, but went right upstairs to get it
| and send it back"
you poor thing; how badly you must
have felt?"
II did, but not half so badly as I did
when / saw the hat!"
| ~"Was it SO beautiful, then?"
mot then, dear. You see, / forgot all
about Fido's little way when I shut him
up in the room with it. He had amused
| himself by chewing it until no self-re-
specting scarecrow would have appeared
| in it. OF course, Tom had to pay for it,
| but the mere mention of millinery now
| is enough to create GOODNESS between
| us on the warmest day! You don't
| happen to want a nice little dog, do
| u?'-Chicago Times Herald.