The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-15
copyright. 1913, by w. werner.) 1,

Copyright. 1913, by w. Werner.)
Hulda Keith worked in the largest,
best equipped and most popular store
in 1t catered to the wealthy in
Of hats. The head milliner, who was
also buyer, had a knack for the busi-
ness. She was her own chief adver-
%tiselnent. She sold many hats simply
by wearing her own becomingly. h
sold many more hats by fitting out
the pretty girls in the store With
proper headgear. They We're mostly
girls who lived at home and had their
money to dress IN. But Hulda Keith
boarded n she had very little money
with which to buy hats.
Although she loved hats and all
pretty things, Hulda did not change
her hat when the first spring milli-
merry began to appear in the windows
Of the store. The other girls made a
frantic rush to grab their choice. re-
gardless of what it might cost. They
straws. while Hulda continued to wear
her black felt.
"Hulda Keith. aren't you ever 60
ing to get a new hat?" Maud Simp-
SON asked Indignantly. You look a
fright in that one. And frights have
a way of disappearing from this store.
I can tell you. MIR. McClaskey likes
a girl to look nice. If she can't or
Hulda said nothing. What was
there to say? She wanted a new hat
and was saving money for it just as
fast as she could. She had been
brought up With ar old-fashioned hor-
ror of getting in debt. But she Won
dered if MIR. McClaskey did discharge
her what she would find to do next.
1t came to her that something more
than her own girlish longing for beau
ty depended upon a new hat. She
must have it somehow.
Hulda look the only means n
knew to swell her hat fund. She went
without her lunch for a whole week.
She walked the whole way even when
it rained. And on Saturday night n
got her hat. AS she hurried of the
store she heard Maud Simpson say to
Walter Reese:
My goodness. Hulda Keith's got
her spring hat at last. I'd like to
have seer what she bought"
Hulda's face burned with shame
and hurt. Maud Simpson was n OF
the prettiest girls in the store and she
was always dressed beautifully. She
had no living expenses to pay and all
the money she earned Went to buy
personal adornment. Considering
Maud's ability to attract it was no
WOlQST tldI w AMER TNeeSe SIlOulu pV
drawn to her. But it a a wonder
that Maud should be drawn to him.
for he was country through n
through, as the girls said-big and red
haired with a hoyish way of blushtng
at nothing. He had come to the store
since Hulda and already had been
promoted twice. 1t was beginning to
occasion some awe that he could leap
ahead so fast. NO knowing where he
would go. especially since McClaskey
seemed to be making a read friend of
him.
From the day of his entrance into
store life Hulda had seen that he was
not like the other men there. From
that they aver noticed her particular
ly. Nobody stops to admire a daisy
when there are red roses all about.
Especially a daisy in a had hat. Hats
We're of immense significance at the
store. but Walter Reese seemed not to
have learned that fact vet. In conse-
auence he was quite nice to Hulda in
her old hat. But when the store
dance was held he took Maud Sinp-
son. Hulda had not gone at all. She
could not dance and. moreover. she had
nothing nice enough to wear. There
was. she knew. no possible chance of
her ever winning more than a friendly
look from Walter Reese. But ven a
lust as any sort Of food is acoentahle
when one. Is starving to death. Hulda
felt thai look following her now. half
in pity. half in wondernent. as she
fled nut into the night With the big
hat bag clutched lightly in her hand.
She walked home and arrived tired to
exhaustion. She climbed up to her