The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-04-22
GabrieIIe's
Easter.
By OLIVE HILL.
Copyright. 1907. by Hamilton Musk.

than Nine. Louise's imported
bonnets and hats, which had
just arrived from Paris and were being
, unpacked amid the admiring exclama-
tons OF the employees of her establish
ment
Nine. Louise was fashionable MILL
ner. Her models came direct from
Paris. and her loyal patrons believed
that the skillful fingers of her work
women often improved upon the origi-
nails, but If you wanted bargains or If
your purse was a limited one Nine
Louises establishment was the last
place to visit.
"You say | ask too moche," madame
SAID one day to customer, "but made
moiselle should remember it is not re
velvet nor re ribbons nor re plumes
what make re cost 1t is re cachet, re
style, you can find nowhere else in re
city. 1t mademoiselle can get dat
cheap, eh bien, so much re bettaire for
her."
Among the importations which were
not to be made visible to the public eye
until the week before Easter was one
superlatiyely charming hat. 1t was of
cream point lace, with kind of yelled
suggestion of the tender green of
spring verdure, and was trimmed with
dropping spray of exquisite lilacs. It
was a hat for a beautiful young blond.
"Ah, but la petite Rose Lambert
must buy dat hatv' madame exclaim-
ed, clasping her hands and gazing with
adoring eyes at the hat. ''Vid her skin
SO white and rose, her eyes like re blue
sky and her smiling mouth she will be
sharmingp'
"Ah, yes, and her father is rich.
rich,'' said Miss Stoll, the forewoman,
"and he denies her nothing! You will
not ask less than thirty for this hat,
madame?
Forty dollarsw madame said deci-
sively ut cost me ten in Paris, and
it was bargain. Look! Real lace and
re flowers! If we make not a leetle
profit on our CONNECTIONS. how will re
business keep up? La petite Lambert
will give re price, and she will be re
grand advertisement for re STYLE Or
ders will come in from re light and re
dark. from re ugly and re pretty. She
will look SO lovely dat dey will all tink
it is re hat dat makes beautiful"
Among the workwomen who were
admiring the new hat was one to whom
it would have been quite as becoming
as to the young lady for whom it was
intended. Gabrille de Kernion had the
same rose leaf skin and wavy golden
hair, though her eyes were dark gray
instead of blue, and her eyebrows and
lashes were nearly black. She was a
beautiful girl and a De Kernion with
all the stately grace Of her decayed
aristocratic line.
But what use had a poor working
girl for aristocratic ancestry? Such
questions as that many of the creoles
of Louisiana have put aside in their
praiseworthy efforts to make a bare
living. The affairs of the De Kernions
had gone from bad to worse until the
last descendant of the line had gone to
work for meager wages to keep herself
and her widowed mother from starv-
ing.
Certainly they were quite near star
walton for long time before Nine. de
Kernion could make up her mind to
consent to Gabrielle seeking outside
employment The work at home would
be well enough. for the girl would not
be exposed to the contamination of
coarse associates, but such work could
not be found, and poverty is a peremp-
tory master who does not always leave
it to one to decide where he shall make