The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-14

ions 1 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 a dissatisfied shake of the head. But not so l. fell impudent when I cast even glance at the wonderful things"
 (Haughty saleswoman returns bal ancing hat on her hand. She looks bored to extinction. Business woman removes her much battered, sQuashy and obviously home made headgear and hands it to her sister. She looks doubtfully at the hat in the saleswom- ans hand).
 Business woman-'It looks awfully big"
 Saleswoman-'1t's the smallest hat in the house, madam. Small hats are not worn at all"
 Business woman (hastily)-"Oh, of course, know the hats are all big | But you see my face is so small that when I 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 if 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 saleswom- an f1ounces away).
 Sister sgustedly)-"Y worse than abject Sarah You're perfectly maudlin."
 (Haughty saleswoman returns and suddenly engulfs business woman in a hat about two feet high and with a crown like scrubbing paiD. Business woman (gasps)-"Oh, dear! Where am I? Why, really. don't you think this one is bigger than the other?"
 Saleswoman-"No, madam; it Is not"
 Business woman Hooking forlornly and apologetically toward showcase) Put some of those hats are small CT, aren't they? I think I'll just step over and look at them" (She gath CTS up her belongings with the air of a detected sneakthief and sides over to the showcase Naughty sales woman turns away with an air of deep disdain)
 Business woman (almost in tears) -"Why won't they be nice to me? If they only realized it, I'm such an -an easy mark. A kind person could sell me anything"
 Sister 0mpatiently)-"Oh, have a little backbone. I'm perfectly ashamed of you. Now, there's pretty hat and little one at that. Ask that girl over there to take it out and show it to you"
 Business woman (after bracing her self to 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 s25)-"She could tell by the quiver in my voice that it WAS not TOT tue 1IhpS OI lne
 Sister-"Why didn't you make her take 1t out and show it to you, any way? That's what they're here for"
 Business woman (after vainly trav- cling up and down and around and around counters and showcases)- Do you suppose if wore one of these would lose my job?"
 Sster-"Here, try this one. Now, if you had big bandeau so that you would look little as if you had on a hat and not a necklace.
 Business woman (gratefully)- How cheering you are! (She peers out from under the hat with the air of startled rabbit) Would you mind asking one of the saleswomen if they have bandeaus?"
 Sister (after pursuing saleswoman around the counter and finally bring ing her to bay)-'T want large bandeau. One that will hold hat up of the head"
 Saleswoman 0anguidly and without offering to move)-"You mean halo. No, we don't carry them. They're not worn." (She resumes her important occupation of gazing dreamily into space. Sister returns to business woman, who is still in millinery eclipse. She regards business woman thoughtfully for moment. Then a triumphant light suddenly comes into her eyes. She fairly sAatches the hat from the business woman's heaO. Sister (gleefully)-"They don't have halos. But" (She seizes the old hat, and stuffs it inside the other one, then replaces the new hat on business