The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-11
Gabrielle S
Easter.
. By OLIVE HILL.
Copyright, 1897. by Hamilton Musk

fresher and more springlikc
than Nine. I.ouiSe'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 a 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 a customer, but made
moiSelle should remember il is not re
velvet nor re ribbons nor ne plumes
what make re cost 1t is re cachet. re
style, you can II ID nowhere else in re
city, If mademoiSclle can get dai
cheap, Ell 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
Superlatively 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. 1t
was Il hat for beautiful young blond
"Ah, but In petite Rose Lambert
hI1v iot hlt"' p,a1on,o oxnlo;.,,
ed, clasping her hands and gazing with
adoring eyes at the hat. "Nid her skin
SO white and rose. her eyes like re blue
sky and her smiling mouth she will be
sharming."
"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 dollars" madame said deci-
Sively. 1T cost me ten in Paris. and
II was a bargain. Look. Real lace and
re flowers. If We make not a lecte
profit on our cOnfections. how will ze
business keep up: La petite Lambert
VIII give re price, and she will he ze
grand advertisement for re style Or
ders will come in from re light and ze
dark, from re ugly and re pretty. She
will look so lovely dat dey will all tinli
it is re hat dat makes beautiful"
Among the workWomen who We're
aQmiring the new hat was one to W HON
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 ana wavy golden
hair, though her eyes were dark gray
instead of blue, and her eyebrows and
lashes We're nearly black. She was a
beautiful girl and De Kerniou with
all the stately grace of her decayed
aristocratic line.
But what use had 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 70
work for mpager wages to keep herself
and her widowed mother from starry
ing.
Certainly they were quite near star
walton for a long time before Nine de
Kernion could make up her mind to
consent to Gabrielle seeking outside
employment The work at homo 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 pcrcmp-
tory master who does not always leave
It to one to decide where he shall make