The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-27
BLESSINGS UPON MADAME
MILLINER'S PRETTY MARCELLED
HEAD" SAYS LOVELY WOMAN
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

ent sort of person from Madame Blank
Peggy's adored milliner, and so when they
got to her little shop Anne was very
happy and very much at home.
Madame swept out in all her elegance
and said, after hearing from Anne that
1t was her sister who wanted a hat.
Docs she wish dreGsy nat?'
Il want an inexpensive hat?' Peggy
chilned in quickly, although she utterly
ignored when Madame had made her re-
marks. Il want a hat that will not shout
to the world tho sad fact that my moss
turns up and that my eyebrows turn
down.
Madame took her in with sloox, and
then darted back behind the hand so,na
niirrored show cases ana presently came
forth with o small bul.et looking bonnet
which she slapped cn Reggy's head. and.
turning to Anne, said su-rely:
Good, isn't it?"
Il am afraid it's too elaborate, Anne
ventured timidly.
1T isn't In the least my style" Peggy
dared to remark.
Madame shrugged her shoulders and ao-
dressed some remark to Anne that was
entirely inaudible to Peggy.
why does she carry on her convcrsa-
ton exclusively with you, Anne, when
1t is who am buying the hat?" Peggy
asked. "She seems to think am an inn
beetle or stone deaf, or like a patient
under an anestheuc.'
'Oh, you just imagine that" Anne
averred.
Not at ALL" Peggy corrected.
The end of it was that hat after hat
was tried on poor Peggy not half of
which she could even get on her head:
they were so small and she had so much
hair-and the(result was that the two
girls left the shop of Annes favori.e
milliner without purchasing a bonnet.
Every woman is under the spell If
certain mlliner," Peggy said, whom
they got into the street
Does that mean that your proud spirit
Is about to be broiSen?" Anne inquired.
1T is" Peggy acknowledges '.the prod
igal is about to return. I'm willing to for
give Madame Blank for the outrageous
manner in which she renovated my last
winters bonnet, if she'll only get me a
decent hat now
Anne giggled with delight.
It's what | expected she said.
Madame Blank greeted the two girls
with just the right shade of welcome.
Nothing could have been more perfect
or diplomatic than the manner in which
she ignored the safeguard effect of the
hat she removed. and if she is the Mrs.
Sherlock Holmes that her profession de-
mands, she knew that Peggy had been
trying on hats at other places, for he.
hair was all tousled and tumbled IN,
and the general air of submissiveness,
she showed. told the sad. sad. story that
Madame was the only one who could
please her
high, not too low-was the bonnet
Madame placed on Peggys head.
IL was perfect love- and was built
for her and no one else
The price was extortionate and even
after Madame had darted into another
part of the salesrooms, and the head of
the department got out his little book
and began to figure and ask '.The num-
ber' and "the CODE and all those mex
plicabe things that they talk about when
she came back after having shaved 1t all
down to almost nothing" as she de-
clared it was even then ourageously hign.
but Peggy must have it at any cost, and
Lave it she did.
Things like this occur just as regularly
as the autumn season with it's crimson
leaves and brilliant foliage comes around
each year.
But women are willing TO pay the price
when they have confidence in a milliner--
their own dear miliner-even when they
know that they will emerge from the
shop far poorer than when they entered,
but suitably attired for the battle of life,
with what we would call in common par
lance the proper sort of lid"
When the bills come in. of course every
woman in the world grumbles and grow,s
and' calls Madame all the impoliie
synonyms she can think of, such as
CRATER ''robber' and "thief'-at the
same time she begs down heavens bless
ings upon her pretty marcelled head for
being able to fit her with hat that IS
stylish and becoming.