Putnam patriot., 1912-04-05
Henry S Business
Judgment
How He Selected His Wife's
Easter Hat
By Wilbur D. Nesba


"Of course YOU don't"
Henry Granmore agreed
with her, sourly. "Of course you
don't. There never was a woman who
knew what to do about new Easter
hat-except to buy one
He chuckled 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 1t and repeat it mentally to him
self and roll 1t as a sweet morsel I'M
der his tongue. Especially Is this
true of sarcasm about Easter bonnets.
Regarding these very necessary ap-
man follows the beaten track of all
the jokesmiths since Samson. who
made the first riddle. and wakes sar
castle as custom dictates.
II don't see." Henry resumed. hav-
ing stated himself with chuckles over
his own sarcasm, why In the name of
time a woman thinks she has to have
Q 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 COMPOUNDED one of the lot uses any
ing her hat. The milliners know all
about women-they 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. III bet
she has to go to some other milliner
just to have the feminine gratifica-
ton of being stung Humph! Have
you brought your hat homer"
why, no. l said l 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, 1t serves them right to have to
pay big prices for them. Now, If a
man would just be calm and philoso-
phical about 1t, and sit down and rea-
son the matter out. ten to one his wife
would either buy 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, 81
know how you always feel about my
hats and what they cost, and | have
decided this year to act On your ad-
vice. 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 / feel that you
could exercise perhaps a little more
artistic taste than | 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
man you rely on his Judgment as to
anything from setting a hen to max
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
a lot of time over it. I'll show you
how to pick out 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. 1t
irked Mr.. Granmore a 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 shifting
at them. By the time Miss Morgan
was ready to wait on him he was
ready with a plenty of good profess
sional advice on bonnet making for
her
Taking a bunch of straw and a
feather and a yard of ribbon and JAM
ming them together isn't any way to
make a hat" he declared People
ought to use little thought. as well
as materials"
That's what I think, Mr.. Gran
more" Miss Morgan said. You know
the finest milliners in the world are
men. They have a greater aptness at
originating new designs than we wo-
men have / wish we had man mil
liner here. / do, indeed"
well, don't claim to be mill'n-
err" Henry said, but | know what l
like when | 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 Il
wish all our customers were as good
as you. They so seldom seem able to
make up their minds
That's it." Henry asserted. Wo-
men never know what they want.
They fiddle around and can't decide.
A man Ii used to making prompt de-
cisions. His time means something to
him; besides, he reasons things out
logically"
What hat had you In mind for Mrs.
Granmore?"
That little gray one over there