Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-10
THE BACHELOR
GIRLS BORES.

Don't ysu think asked the Bachelor
Girl, women have measly way of
gauging the worth of each others be-
longings?"
you mean"-began the Listener,
with questioning note in her voice.
"Oh, well, in such petty ways as peep
ing under the flaps of envelopes to see
who your stationer is; looking in your
coat for the mark that's to vouch for
it's tailor origin, and all sorts of tricks
. like that.
Now, just imagine lot Of men
meeting together somewhere, hanging
up their hats. and then half dozen
OF them sneaking away from the rest
to hunt through the hat bands Tor the
names of the makers"
Haven't an imagination elastic
enough for that"
Would it require too much of
stretch to make you believe 1t OF wo-
mem"
Even of trivial womankind, affirm
cd the Listener solemnly
Then you'll have to take my word
for it that such thing did happen
only last week, and what's more, IL
happens right along l was at an after
noon euchre. You know how the wo-
men are always ushered into some
room to take off their wraps, and how
they strew their hats around on the
bed, the tables and the chair nobs.'
Eyes, know" assented the Listener.
"Well, at this euchre our hostess
room locked as if regular fall MILL
merry opening was going on there Most
of the club members had spick and
span new hats that day-you could see
it at a glance, as well as by the extra
care they took setting them In SAFE
places.
Just after the last game and before
the refreshments were served l went
over into the wrap room to get my VIM
aigrette AS / was going through the
hall | saw five or six OF the players
fitting about from hat to hat, peerlng
into the crowns and giggling over the
marks or lack of marks there.
when l appeared in their midst they
weren't in the least abashed. One OF
them, called out to me to come and
look at Mrs. AS velvet toque with
stitches like hastings inside. And she
cried, waving triumphantly before the
others, mo milliner's mark of any kind,
so it must be homemade, even II sne
did hint it was Paris model
"Then they began to buzz around
among the other bonnets and turbans,
commenting on somebody's extrava-
gance In getting her hats at such and
such a place, or somebody else's at
tempt at amateur millinery, and all
along those lines.
81 was SO disguised I had to sniff
hard at my vinaigrette to keep from
giving the crowd slapping piece Of
my mind.
There are so many bores Of that
type among our sex. They actually
Judge your morals by your tailor's or
milliner's tag. / mean to teach them
a lesson, especially those Poll Prys- in
the euchre club"
How are you going to do it," asked
the Listener with interest.
"This way: have little milliner
who comes to the house and does work
for me from season to season. She's
inexpensive and clever and makes
about as pretty hats as anybody could
want. But of course they lack the
swell stamp within that is their pass
port into other peoples favor.
II was telling her about the way
most women reject or accept hat
according to its crown tag.
And how she laughed. Why she
said. when / finished this toque for
you, would you like to be Virot or a
Nine. Marie?'
81 didn't know what she meant until
she explained that at the wholesale
houses where she buys her materials
they sell milliners' tags by the yard,
stamped or worked in gilt with all the
different names of big foreign millin-
erS.
at was easy enough to buy those
tags, snip one of them Off, stitch 1t
into the crown of hat and send it out
into the world as an imported novel
ty.
.'She said lots of her customers had
her do it. The added cost was very
little, twenty-five, thirty or forty cents,
perhaps, and think of paying only for
ty cents extra to have the good charac-S
ter of your hat guaranteed"
There's no limit to woman's decep-
tion," unused the Listener.
''There1l be no limit to mine" frank
" declared the Bachelor Girl. I'm
going to have French tag put inside
every piece of homemade millinery
own. And | shall hang the hats
around right under the noses of those
silly women and keep them wondering
all winter how l can afford so many
imported hats on my small allowance.
There isn't one of them smart
enough to detect counterfeit millinery,
and such small minds ought to be dealt
with by small methods" concluded the
Bachelor Girl, with a vicious jab of her
hat pin into the jaunty headpiece that
topped her pompadour.
DOROTHY MADDOX.
To the Trade-Our store will be
ra,,or, aftar srnnar from Monday Dec