Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17

hats have no business in a newspaper
Office you know"
You are right" | remarked. "The
picture hat more than any one thing
is responsible for the printing of LOT
of gush and slush and mush that 9th
erwise would not have got beyond the
Office boy or the waste basket. When
a man sees a picture hat coming in at
one door of his office he should dodge
out the other. for he ought to know
then and there that every rose on that
hat means a dollar out of his pocket
for charity bazaar, or a patent pen
wiper, or a set of Zola-or maybe only
luncheon at SANKEY'S"
Il don't like SANKEY'S" remarked
Polly. Il think Du Points is much
nicer-especially for oysters. But I'll
/ go, If you want me to-" she suggested,
beginning to tie the bow under her
chin and sticking the pin more firmly
through the roses in her hat
! waved aside the suggestion.
! ut is narrow minded of you, Polly
/ said virtuously, "to take a theoreti
cal argument personally" polly
4 loos ened the chiffon bow under her
chin.) The picture hat" went on
Oratorically, lis the symbol of femi
ninity. In the very curls of it's roses
/ turks the cause of the undoing OF man.
It seems to be saying constantly,
This, underneath me, is woman
The ribbons on it's brim echo WON
ant and its chiffon streamers. flying
in the breeze, whisper Woman
Figuratiyely speaking, the picture hat
is''-
Anything frilly and fluffy and allur.
ing!" broke in Polly. Cleopatra wore
a picture hat didn't she, when she
wore bangles and spaneles and float
ing draperies? And 1--we wore a pic.
ture hat
I'VE have no historical evidence of
that" J objected
when she offered Adam the apple
went on Polly, ignoring me. "And so
did Helen of Troy, and Nine. Pompa-
and all the others. If they had worn
fedoras and linen collars, for instance,
instead of flowers and feathers, the
worlds history would have been en-
tirely different. II has always been
the little woman in lace who smells
of violets and rustles as she walks
who has been the power behind the
throne and not the Amazon with the
big voice. and more Kings and ma
tons have been downtrodden and
walked over by a pair Of dainty
French heels than by common-sense
boots. You don't suppose a girl would
spend an hour day brushing her
hair and another steaming her face
and another at the dressmakers in
the agony of being fitted If it wasn't
In order to lease some man. do you?
You don't fancy she would pull her
stays in until they almost gave her in:
digestion, just in order to prove that
her waist only meas lred eighteen
inches, or that she would wear shoes
so tight and heels so high that she
nearly topples over at every step, or
that
mo, no no. | don't Polly" cried.
And | do love your ffilly hats and
your ridiculous shoes and your fuzzy
pompadour"
Polly smiled sweetly
"Then I'll take YOU out to lunch
con" she said, because I've been
making lots of money"
YOU" | stopped in the act of TAX
ing down my overcoat.
ct was this way" said Polly, talk.
ing a crumpled newspaper from out
the folds of her shirt waist ana
spreading it fiat across her knees.
You see. lmogen Brown is q particu
lar friend of mine and | always helo
her when can poor girl! So, last
week, when she came to me with her
hair struggling down in her eyes and
wearing a shirt waist and a skirt that
wouldn't meet in the back and threw
a manuscript in my lap vowing she
/ was going to give up literature and
90 in for trained nursing, told her
"Well?" | suggested. as Polly hest
tated
We'll. told her to pin up her front
/ hair and put little powder on hey
nose. and Id see what | could do 81
help her"
And what did YOU do?"
"Oh. | just went upstairs and put
/ ON my prettiest hat--you know the
one with the pink roses, and my Bern
hardts and my brown chiffon dress
with the dangly things all over 1t,
and pinned on q bunch of violets
and then took the manuscript and
her list of editors and went to see the
very first one on the list. and