The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-07
THRILLING ADVENTURE
OF BUSINESS WOMAN

sister, who has ben pressed into ser
vice for the occasion. enter the milli
merry section OF q large department
store).
Bushes woman (plaintively)-"I
does seem to me that am never free
from the thrall Of the hat. Just after
Christmas II begins to hang over me
like pail, and when the spring hats
really begin to sprout In the windows
get perfectly morbid" (Speaks very
humbly to naughty saleswoman.) I'll
you could wait on US. please, It would
be 80 kind OF you. Something small
II You please" (To sister while
naughty saleswoman departs in search
Of hat. Dear me! I wish I didn't
get SO positively abject on these occas
ions know some people who really
get bitter satisfaction out Of sailing
into exclusive millinery establish
ments, where the hats are dreams OF
beauty and becomingness, and de.
manding to be shown confections
whose prices send the cold chills down
ones back. and then departing with q
dissatisfied shake Of the head. But
not so I. fell impudent when I cast
even a glance at the wonderful
things
Haughty saleswoman returns bal
sncing hat on her hand. She looks
bored TO extinction. Business woman
removes her much battered, squashy
and obviously home made headgear
and hands 1t TO her sister. She looks
doubtfully at the hat in the saleswom-
ans handD.
business voman-"It looks awfully
big"
Saleswoman-@It's the smallest hat
IN the house, madam. Small hats are
not worn at ALL"
Business woman (hastily)-"Oh. Of
course, I know the hats are all big.
But you s1s my face is so small that
when l get one Of these large things
on look Just like a monkey. I really
don't think it's worth while for me to
try It on. I'm sorry to trouble you.
but II you could find something that
wouldn't sit quite so far down on my
head. I'd be so much obliged" (She
smiles pathetically and the saleswou-
An flounces away.
Sister (disgustedly)-~You're worse
than abject Sarah. You're perfectly
maudlin."
(Haughty saleswoman returns and
suddenly engulfs business woman in q
hat about two feet high and with .
crown like a scrubbing paiD.
Business woman (gasps)-"Oh,
dear! Where am 7? Why, really,
don't you think this one is bigger than
the other?'
! Saleswoman-"No, madam; It is
not"
Business woman Cooking forlornly
and apologetically toward showcase)
But some Of those hats are small
er. aren't they l think I'll Just step
over and look at them (She gath.
ers up her belongings with the air OF
8 detected sneskthief and sidles
over TO the showcase. Naughty sales.
woman turns away with ar air OF deep
disdainl
Business woman (almost in tears)
why won't they be nice to me.
II they only realized It, I'm such an
An easy mark. A kind person
could sell me anything"
Sister Gnpatientlyl-"Ok. have a
little backbone. I'm perfectly ashamed
OF you. Now. there's pretty hat and
little one ST that Ask that girl
over there to take il out and show II
to YOU
Business woman latter bracing her
self 70 the effort OF addressing an
other goddess Of the millinery world,
fades away in deep humiliation upon
being told that the price OF the hat
In question is ss5l-"She could tell
BY the culver in ny voice that Il
wss not for the likes Of ne"
Sister-@Why didn't you make her
take Il out and show Il 70 you. any
way: Thst's Wis, they're here for
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cling up snd down snd around and
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DO yul suppose Il wore one Of
these ! would loss nv :ost"
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