The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1902-05-17
49,
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AFranco- YdnkeeH Hat


Sim George doesn't know anything
about hats. I Just won't get one now
and the dear boy need never know
forgot that can't send big bills 70 him
4 He Is such a sensitive goose about
money! She smiled at her husband
described with such indignant afec'
tion, and said to the attendant:
Thank you for showing them to
me. I'm sorry. but none Of them are
quite what want
But my dear" George began, you
/ slid"
"None OF them are quite what I
want" repeated Georges wife, decis-
lively:
I'VE expect some others next Week,"
said the attendant, who had often
served Lila. Don't you like this gray
OReg" she added. indicating the one
which George had been under the
strongest Impression that Lila did
like.
1T isn't quite what want" replied
Lila.
Il thought you said It was exactly
what you wanted" George remarked,
as they went into the street.
Lila laughed. Il changed my mind, /"
she said. IA woman always may, you
know" she further explained.
shall we so TO some other place."
said George. stin mystifed. ''What
do you want, my dear?"
Something 20 eat I'm positively
famished!' said Lila.
But aren't you going to buy a hat?"
asked George. IN surprise.
Il think III wait until next week"
She looked up at him and added.
gently. Don't talk to me any more
about hats: you said yourself that you
knew nothing about them"
He did not talk to her about them. |
as she sat opposite him at the res
taurant table. and she talked very |
little to him about anything. She was
almost as silent as she had been at /
breakfast; but she smiled at him In 4
Eay that reminded him OF the time
he had told her that he was poor. and
she had said. .'Oh. are your
After luncheon he took, her TO her
car. and waited until It bore her from
his sight. AS he started to return to
his studio be said to himself, Il won
der why she changed her mind about
that hat. She certainly said Il was
exactly what she wanted" Then all
It once he understood. Gould It havs
been pOssibleY' he thought, remem-
Derins her added tenderness. The
lear girl"
For 4 moment he heSltated; then
quickly be returned 70 the only pos
dble place to buy n proper hat. The
roper hat IN question was In the
how window. 1t was, as he said, very
Iimple. He went into the shop, and 70
mother attendant than the one Who
lad so recently shown Lila the hat
How much Is that gray hat in the
yhdOwY' he asked.
The attendant looked at the hat.
TWenty-eight dollars" she said. 1t /
) & new hat from Paris"
LILA did known George said to
imself. !
1T is very simple" he gasped to the
ttendant.
Yes" said the attendant, "but 1t Is
rom Paris"
what Is It made OFF, George asked
lankly. wondering how a coil Of some
hing gray and soft. combined with one
range black flower. could possibly :
ost $500.
Illusion" said the attendant {
illusion? What a name! Is Illus
N so expensiVeY'
''Oh. no; quite the contrary."
els It the hOwer. then. that Is 50 ex. a
2
"oh. no." said the attendant, pity b
g his ignorance. 1T Is the style" t
The styleY" o
''The art in the making Of 1t, I a
can" Il
at Is artistic said the artist, a. he q
ice more left the chop. o
The price Of the style fascinated p
IN to such an extent that he fingered v
the window and. stared at the gray p
lusion and the black flower. 4
'TWenty-eight dOllarsl Upon my G
ord! It's so simple could draw It =
18th four lines" he thought an his 81
ystlheation. Then a new ana re- tC
idea came TO him, an in g
ll-ed idea! He'Enatehed out his pencil te
ID card and made a rapid sketch Of
e Partisan hat Then be went with
lsty strides from the only possible
ace to another place. some distance = Z.
moved. He apparently desired 70 =,
ave Tar behind him the atmosphere y
Partisan style and its seeming =
lue. p
VITA the sketch n his hand he an r
cached an attendant n thls second q
op. -Can you make q hat IKE thatg'' =
inquired. az
oh. yes" she said. easily. 1T IS
y simple. what color Is it, what o.
4 made OFF,
1t Il gray Illusion ana 4 black ..
WeE Where does one get gay n
Zen and black foHersFs %
We can supply them. said the At ~
idant .Shall show fhem q youY.
How much WIN Il cost to make ftgs' %
erEe asked -