Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10
AROUND THE CITY

woman was trying on hat. She look
ed like good woman who did her duty by
her family and who would undoubtedly e
to heaven when she died. But she COULDN'T
have been common-sense woman, or she
never would have tried on frivolous mush-
room trimmed with plush roses and lace
She was too heavy and too commonplace
and oh! poor soul. too old. There were
other reasons. but three good ones ought to
be enough. When she had smirked at the
awful reflection in the glass and viewed its
horrors from the rear with hand mirror
she said to the clerk. without stopping to
consider that the poor child had a soul to
save:
DO you think it becomes me?'
The clerk beamed admiration and stated
that 1t was the latest style from Paris
and would be worn altogether this spring
Il think I look right well in it, too. Let
me try on that one in the case-the one
with the plumes. I don't mean that one
you've got your hand on. Ny husband
hates black-says he doesn't even want
me to wear mourning for him II he dies.
Aren't men funny? Yes. this is the one.
What's the name of it?''
The clerk had brought forward dream
in violet chip, with side fall of lemon
plumes and long streamers of violet velvet
ribbon.
This is a sixteenth century poke"
Good land! that's too old for me. Why,
they used to wear chin ribbons when I was
in my teens
The clerk stated that 1t was the latest
style from Paris and would be worn alto
gether this spring
II can hear my husband calling me a
poke right now II should take home a
shape like that! I believe like this mush-
room best. I always was great hand for
pink roses. What shape do you call that?
Looks like an old-fashioned toque 1 had
one once and had to give it away. My hus-
band said it made me look like a drum
major"
1t was a toque, for the clerk, in an honest
effort to do her duty to both store and Gus
tomerrhad presented for inspection a small
but attractive model in colors suitable for
woman who had never been pretty and
was no longer young. 1t was an honest
This is a new idea based on the toque,"
she explained "It may be plain or elab-
crate, according to trimming. 1t is called
the airship and is all the rage in New
York"
Yes, and it would be all the rage at my
house, too, If I dast get it-with my hus-
band always THROWN 1t at me about my
hyfng around town-you don't know my
husband. I believe I like this mushroom
best of any I've seen yet. and I've been
everywhere till my feet are sore. If my
husband doesn't like 1t, all he's got to do
is to buy me-another@"
The woman who looked as if she did her
duty by her family and was going to
heaven when she dies, handed a yellow
back bill to the clerk, and the spring hat
incident was over for one household.
Unless the husband is heard from.
A funeral was passing. AS it reached
crossing near the treasury a man and
woman stopped at the curb to let the
hearse go by. Then the man started for
ward. a
s seVVhy Toh, ploptr ryho& 49, vi, dot,c,
Don't you know it's bad luck to cross
funeral?'
John Blank didn't enjoy the rebuke.
'It'll be worse luck II lose my job. I've
got as much respect for the dead as any
body, but it's i've minutes to g."
He walked so leisurely through the space