The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-12
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MILLINERY
Mrs. Glen Collins viii
Open a Fine
Shop.
(Frou the Call.)

| she had no taste.
When, within less than five months,
| it was rumored that she had left him,
people agreed that she had at least a
little
And now that she is about to aban-
| don her matrimonial venture complete
| ly for one that will include high class
| millinery and dressmaking, they say
| she has the taste of genius.
1t has been announced that this most
| attractive and charming Of New York
women, the most popular debutante of
| the season of 1908, finding her husband
| bankrupt and forced to resign his
commission in the army, has decided
to return here from Paris and become
milliner-in-chief to the 900"
DO you think 1 can make a sue
cess of it?" she wrote over to one of
her friends.
"A success?" the friend cabled back
why, my darling Nathalie, we'll buy
your hats and wear them even if you
line them yourself"
1t is quite decided that the millinery
shop of Mrs. Glen Collins is to be a
success.
She has always had taste in trimming
hats and a love for it, too. When she
hadn't a fad for running about New
port with her hair hanging down her
back, free to the breezes, and her head
uncovered, regardless of tan or free
kles, she had the prettiest collection
of hats that one may imagine. They
were simple, but they suited
One of her friends after the other
would appeal to her to fasten in a
plume or flower or to advise her
what trimming to get. They never
stopped short of anything except the
lining. They never did dare to ask
Nathalie to line a hat, for they knew
she would refuse. But now, poor
Nathalie, things are different.
THE COMING MILLINER.
She is coming over shortly from
Paris, they say. with the very latest
styles and most excellent trimmer.
Then she will send out cards to a num-
Der Of New York's most select people,
those who know CONNECTION when
lHSy see IL anu are prepared 10 pay LOT
it accordingly
Imagine how charming it will be to
be served by her!
And imagine" said one of her in
Inmates the other day, what a good
time she will have telling us good
naturally what she really thinks of
the way We clothe ourselves! Nathalie
always had an idea about these things,
a ho. h,,t ba
never had a chance to express it.
Now she can look us over critically
and say: My dear, L never could I'M
your face when big, droopy ones would
be so much more becoming.
Now, you won't be offended If I
tell you that you always overload your
hats. OF course it's good for the mil
liner, but as a friend Or those lit
tie turbans you wear look like pimples
ON the top of your head! All, don't be
angry. Please don't-you know 1 want
to make success of millinery. I must
# l am going to support my child. and
If 1 make you look better, why your
husband will want you to come to me.
Oh, 1 know meni'"
So she does, poor Nathalie, to her
,osti
1t will be a sort of honor to receive
L card from Mrs. Glen Collins, for she
S a woman of courage who is coming
pack to her native country after a ter
'ible blow to fight for a livelihood.
You may say she ought to have |
1nown better than to accept a husband {
Upon the bare presentation of a card l
nd few letters of introduction; you
nay say that those who had charge of !
Ter certainly should have known bet Y
er. So they should, and now that 1
hey look back upon it all in the light
f a bitter experience they probably [
hink so. too. But Nathalie was in T
ove and Captain Glen Collins, as he "
allied himself, one of the Queens Own t
cameron HighlanderS. was received a
verywhere and considered brilliant n
alliance" He claimed to have an n
1come of 10000 year, his card at e
ested his rank in a crack regiment s
nd that he was a member of the Naval a
nd Military Club. A
There was, apparently, nothing to
int that he was head over ears in I
ebt. in America in search of an a
eiress to drag him out and redeem 81
ome of the dishonored checks that II
lreatened him with exposure. He was
a gentleman as the word d
pes. His uncle, William Collins, who a
lade his fortune in Bibles, is the a
hurch of Engiand's official publisher W
nd King Edwards own special print n
:. He was a member of the Old World a
-istocracy sure enough. but members II
that aristocracy have, as we have
JASON to know by the troubles of our o.
merican heiresses. proved rascals II
ANY a time ere now.
Captain Collins, as he called himself d.
I has since been learned that he had L
NV a ueutenants rank had the out g
ard semblance of gentleman. He p
ore the clothes and the manners OF g
10 He wore them so well that, al u
,oueh he came over here preceded by
cloud of rumors. which told OF MS II
luck at the gaming ia
&c IF Monte Carlo and his extraor- G
nary extravaganza elsewhere. he was g
vited to the very best houses that o.