Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-31
Henry s Business Judgment How He Selected His Wife's
 Easter Hat
 By Wilbur D. Nesba
By Wilbur D. Nesbi.

WlIu u3F, SOufly O1 course you don't. There never was woman who knew what to do about a new Easter hat-except to buy one."
 He chucAled at his own sarcasm, which is a way men have. Sarcasm isn't worth a cent to your genuinely sarcastic man unless he can chuckle over it and repeat it mentally to him. self and roll it as a sweet morsel un- der his tongue. Especially Is this true of sarcasm about Easter bonnets. Regarding these very necessary ap- purtenances of the attire of woman. man follows the beaten track of all the jckesmiths since Samson, who made the first riddle, and waxes sar castle as custom dictates
 s'I don't see," Henry resumed, hay ing sated himself with chuckles over his own sarcasm, "why in the name of time a woman thinks she has to have a new hat for Easter"
 "Why, every woman has one," his wife argued, meekly.
 That's the answer. Every woman gets one because she thinks every other woman will have one. And not a confounded one of the lot uses any business judgment in selecting or buy ing her hat. The milliners know all about women-they're women them selves. So they boost the prices up at Easter time, and laugh in their sleeves at their sisters who come trail ing in and go trailing out with the contraptions the milliners are pleased to call bonnets. Bah! I'll bet no mil liner will make her own hat. I'll bet
 he her to go to some other milliner Jtfst to have the feminine gratifica- tion of beiNg stung. Humph! Have you brought your hat home?"
 S'Why, no. I said I didn't know what to do about one"
 "You might have brought one home and still have been in the dark"
 Henry treated himself to few more chuckles over this sarcastic remark The way men carry on about Easter hats, it serves them right to have to pay big prices for them. Now, if a man would just be calm and philoso- phical about it, and sit down and req son the matter out, ten to one his wife would either buy a cheaper hat or maybe she wouldn't buy any at all, Maybe, that is. At any rate, she would be happier with the hat when she got it.
 "Well, Henry" his wife said, A"I know how you always feel about my hats and what they cost, and have decided this year to act on your ad. vice. l want you to take an hour or so with me tomorrow and pick out a hat for me. Then you'll be sure at least to please yourself with the cost of it-and sometimes l feel that you could exercise perhaps a little more artistic taste than I can, for you are out in the world more, and you know more about what harmonizes and what suits a person, and so on."
 Mrs. Granmore looked meek when she said that, but if you could have looked into her mind you would have seen the craftiest little thoughts hop ping around and nudging each other in the ribs. She knew the vanity of . man. She knew that if you tell a man you rely on his judgment as to anything from setting hen to mak- ing an airship he will modestly accept your estimate of his capacity and offer you his expert services.
 'Well," Henry said "now you're talking sense I'll meet you at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and we'll go and get that hat No use to put in 9 lot of time over it. IH show you how to pick out Q hat, have it boxed, paid for and sent home, without any wear and tear on your nervous system and without losing lot of valuable time"
 Next afternoon he met her as per agreement and together they found their way to the millinery store It irked MT. Granmore q bit to have to wait half an hour before they could . be waited on, but he profited by the wait by inspecting a number of new pattern hats and scoffing and snifiing at them. By the time Miss Morgan was ready to wait on him he was ready with q plenty of good profess sional advice on bonnet making for her.
 Taking a bunch of straw and feather and yard of ribbon and jam ming them together isn't any way to make hat" he declared. People ought to use little thought, as we'll as materials"
 That's what I think, Mr. Gran more." Miss Morgan said. "You know he fl, Y milliners in the world are men, They have a greater aptness at originating new designs than we wo- men have. wish we had a man mil liner here. I do, indeed"
 a. Well, I don't claim to be millin- CT" Henry said, but I know what like when I see it. Now, I've only got a few minutes to spare, and I'll just pick out hat for my wife and let you send it home''
 Very we'll" Miss Morgan replied. "1 rx-sr ok all t-s.. : V