Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-01
SHE DESERVES SYMPATHY.
Woman Who Does Not Know What She
Wants to Be Pitied.

Severe condemnation is dealt out to
the woman who sets forth 10 buy some
thing without knowing exactly what She
wants. 1t is our habit TO waste all cur
sympathy on the martyred salesperson
whose misfortune it is 10 see the irreso-
lutte woman through this trying ordeal
But the truth is. the greater sympathy
is due this unhappy lady. The saiesper-
sons situation IS beaufic as compared
with hers.
If you do not believe this. consider the
sorrowful state of a young person who
started out three weeks age to buy a hat
She has been buying it ever since. To be
more explicit, she has bought several hats
four times as many as she needed and at
least eight times as many as she could
affOrd--but she has nor vet annexed the
particular headcoyering which Is to sat
isfy her soul and accommodate itself
properly to her wardrobe.
In the beginning small round brown
turban attached itself to her.
This, she said to herself, will go
nicely with my winter suit, which | can
therefore wear so much the later. Be
sides, the saleswoman says ! look like
peach i'll it. And it is cheap"
She wore it two days, and about that
time the weather grew so hot that she
had to shake her winter suit-metaphor
ically speakinG-and as the brown hat
wouldn't mt anything else she had, it be-
came necessary to get another.
Il want a hat that will go nicely with
a black dress and a green dress and a
blue dress and two pink dresses and a
red and white check dress" she told the
nilliner, further explaining that as she
had already spent her spring hat allow
ance foolishly it was necessary to be-
thus economical.
After duly considering this problem the
m1tiInpr tp6 q cl- hot
ing to hit the requirements of the case,
and so the young woman became shortly
possessed of a lugubrious affair which
looked very well with everything except
the green dress and the two pink dresses
and the red and white checked dress and
the black dress, making the last in par
ticular look like the house of mourning
and the gates of death.
Il won't look like a widow when I'm
mott! declared this young woman in Il
high state of distress upon beholding her
somber habilaments in the mirror. ''I'll
go straight down to Featherem's and
get that little green hat, which will look
lovely with both the black dress and my
green"
Which, with many qualms of con,
science. she did, after assuring herself
that it was not reckless extravaganza,
but merely commendable desire to Sc
cure the absolutely and Enthusiastically
right hat
That infallible hat is not yet in her
possession. A while ago she thought she
spotted it in white chapeau, with pink
roses, which would look perfectly ire
sistible with all her wash dresses, and
which was so immea Surably superior to
the brown hat, the black hat and the
green hat, all three, considering the
price, that she went in and bought it.
But now she is certain beyond
doubt that it is a darling little red hat,
which exactly matches her parasol and
word look lovely with every one of her
frocks, and is, besides, the most becom-
ing color in the world, and very reason
able in price.
And if it is not hard lines to behold
this hat in shop window and TO under
stand clearly that it was made for her,
and yet to have come upon it too late,
because already one has purchased four
spring hats (all hideous in comparison,
and is plunged head over heels in debt
therefore, this is not hard lines, the
aforesaid irresolute young woman wants
to know.