The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-01-26
She Can
Wondering

0SOSb 49, wa
could hardly wait for morning to
come 30 I could III over and talk to
you. 1 didn't sleep a wink all night.
. No, no one is sick, but I've had the
most awful experiences! You needn't
try to guess. for you couldn't in a
thousand years"
WELL" she proceeded, ito begin at
the beginning, my aunt, who is head
milliner at Birney's, copied a Paris
hat for me. A Paris hat, I said. Yes,
and It's a beauty, too! The model
was $50 and mine is just as pretty.
"Then I think I've told you about
Fred's cousin Louise that he thinks
10 so clever and charming. Yes, she
10, really. They are own cousins;
their mothers were sisters. But, of
course, Louise's being brought up so
far away and not meeting Fred till
they were grown does make a differ
ence. Well, I went over to see her
yesterday afternoon and she raved
over my hat, called it a perfect dream
and tried 1t on and looked stunning
in it. Yes, she's very pretty and she
q aWrully sweet ways.
"You remember how it rained yes
terday about half past four? Oh, yes,
you must remember; q nice, soft rain
that anne down so gently you could
hardly hear 1t. Well, I was just start
ing from Louise's to Aunt Ruth's and
Louise insisted that I should never
wear that beautiful hat out in the rain.
The rain was coming straight down
and was so soft that / thought an UNI.
brella would be all the protection !
needed, and, anyway, Aunt Ruth's
isn't so very far from Louise's. Why,
I was going to Aunt Ruth's to dinner.
"Well, Louise mourned SO eve my
lovely hat being dragged through the
wet that she finally got me worked
up, too, and then she hauled out an
old morning hat of hers with quilts on
it and insisted that l wear it. She
was so sweet about 1t that I just had
to take her hat.
What? No, nothing happened to her
hat; you guessed wrong, young lady
This is my story and If you want to
hear 1t you let MI tell it!
Lets see, where was I? oh, yes.
just starting for Aunt Ruth's. Well,
Fred came in after dinner and said
he'd called up our house and mother
told him 1 was at Aunt Ruth's and he
explained that he'd come to invite me
to go to the theater.
"Oh, I knew it was a horrid night
and I told him so, but he said he was
blue and cross and a nice, cheerful
show would make us forget the wealth
or. Well, my dear, when l went up
stairs to get ready I remembered thai
I'd have to veal Louise's hat and al
most tainted! The only consolation
was that I knew the weather would
never hurt 1t, but actually when
looked at myself in the glass and
thought of my own lovely hat I want
ed to stop and cry.
when I went downstairs I asked
Fred If he didn't think he'd better &c
around to the back door and call fol
me, but he just laughed. Well, that's
sweet of you to say so, but yor
haven't see me in that awful hat!
I'VE were sort of late getting to the
theater and I just melted into my sea-
and got my hat off in a hurry. Yes
1t was a pretty good play, and wher
the curtain went down on the first &C
I had just about forgotten the wealth
er and that horrid hat and Fred ha6
cheered up and we were having {
lovely time.
Eyes, this Is where the blow fell!
I was looking around at the boxes
and I spied Louise in the right-hant
stage box with the handsomest-look
ing crowd you ever saw, and, my dear
she was wearing my precious hat!
well. maybe you think it is funny
but If It had been your hat she wa.
wearing and you were trying to covel
an awful quill thing with a program
and a handkerchief, you wouldn't SET
so much fun In it.
Il choked right in the middle of
sentence and got so red that Free
thought I'd stuck myself with a hat
pin.
"Tell him, my dear! You know per
fectly well he'd have thought 1 was
Jealous cat. And, anyway, you dom
know how gorgeous Louise looked il
that hat!
What? No, he didn't see her an
I lever said a word. I just sat ant
waited until I could put Louise's quill
affair on my head and sneak home.
Supper? In that hat? Well,
should say not! But I Just know tina
Louise and her crowd went some
where and that Louise looked perfect
ly stunning-in my hat!
"She promised yesterday afternoon
to bring my hat home this afternoon
when she went driving, and I know
should just die If I had to meet her.
mo, you wouldn't either say any
thing to her about wearing the hat
because she'd tell Fred, and you know
perfectly well a man would never un
derstand. Why, those men YEA eac]
others ties and things and never car,
a bit.
mo, 1 told mother this mornin,
that I'd have IN on IN a vory ir,,,,