Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-11-27

Copyright By Frederick 4. stOkes Company

They u~ anlos hotels, ball teams and
tgaFS - 0 hands, but two things there
rn0' mon which they stand united.
~ sr.,v member of that fraternity Wnlcn
ger a lam to hotel bedroom, or
y cOn n. berth by night, and chained
Ilesp' sample case by day agrees In
% s n That it isn't what 1t used
Obs, second: If only they could
70 w. ~ opening for a nice, paying
m u,.' furnishing business in a live
GEM town that wasn't swamped with
I'u' Vim, ~ Of thing already they'd buy
laa' settle down like white man,
! ' George! and quit this eddling.
D,. m,ssus hates it anyhow; and the
lnO Lnow the iceman better than they
Al their own dad
~ ~ nth the morning that Mrs. Emma Nc
u.,ov representing T. A. Buck,
.I 'tborloom Petticoats) finished her
'',r With Miss Hattie Stitch, head of
w., E. Bloch's skirt and suit depart
mt she found herself in rare
',on5 She hated her job; she loathed
rollow sample cases; she longed
~ oou Miss stitch a green-eyed cat;
W che wished that she had chosen
some easy and pleasant way OF earn
w., s' living. like doing plain and fancy
. W. an ironing. Emma McChesney
Nd heen selling Featherloom Petit
,,ote on the road for almost ten
wars and she was famed throughout
he, territory for her sane sunniness,
and her love of her work. Which
,,,aks badly for Miss Hattie Stitch.
Miss Hattie Stitch hated Emma Nc
rbesnev with all the hate that Hat
cbpsted thin-haired woman has Tor
ona who can wear a large SO with
out one inch Of alteration, and a hat
that turns sharply away from the face.
FIR 46 weeks in the year Miss Stitch
sristed in Kiser & Bloch's store at
River Falls. For six weeks, two in
sring, two in fall, and two In mid
winter Hattie lived in New York,
with capital L. She went there to
select the seasons newest models
Slightly modified for River Falls),
but incidentally she took a regular
rousseau with her.
All day long Hattie picked skirt
and suit models with unerring good
taste and business judgment. At
At night she was a creature trans
formed. Every house of which Hattie
bought did it's duty like soldier and
gentleman Nightly Hattie powdered
her neck and arms, performed sacred
rites over her hair and nails, donned
gown so complicated that hotel
maid had to hook her up the back, and
was ready for her evenings escort at
eight. There wasn't hat in a grill
room from one end of the Crooked
COw-path to the other that was more
wildly barbaric than Hattie's, even In
these sane and simple days when the
bird of paradise has become the ma
tiOnal bird The buyer of suits for
thriving department store In hustling
neglected. Whenever a show came
to River Falls Hattie would look
bored, pass weary hand over her
glossy couture and say: "Oh, yes.
Clever little show. Saw it two win
tiers ago in New York. This won't be
the original company, of course" The
year that Hattie came back wearing a
set Of skunk everyone thought it was
lynx until Hattie drew attention to
Wnat she called the brown tone" In
IL After that Old Lady Heinz got
ner old skunk furs out of the moth
pals and tobacco and newspapers
mat had preserved them, and her
laughter cut them up into bands for
me bottom of her skirt, and the cuffs
o. her coat. When Kiser & Bloch had
taeir fall and spring openings the
'o"n came ostensibly to see the new
SYKES, but really to gaze at Hattie
u a new CONNECTION, undulating up and
SO"n the department, talking with a
HeaVy Eastern accent about this or
'uat being smart" or good this
year, or having "a world of STYLE"
sau sort of trailing her toes after her
" give a clinging, Grecian line, like
PICTURES Of Ethel Barrymore when she
vas thln The year that Hattie con-
.ueu TO some one that she was wear
Is only scant boomers beneath her
s,'lSy silk the floor was mobbed, and
sIe! mad to call in reserves from the
Wear
:, MISS Stitch came to New York in
aien' On the evening of her arrival
S 4s ulned with Fat Ed Meyers of the
s.auss Sans-Silk Skirt company. He
NJ I.O'ned her that she looked like a
a. lu' and that that was some classy lit
~ gown and it wasn't every woman
40 could wear that kind of thing and
str, away with it. 1t took a certain
oSH Hattie smiled, and hummed
,,ey TO the tune the orchestra was
.s asmg' and Ed told her it was
ma. she didn't do something with
p,..i nave something to tell you," said
tsn. e' Just before / lett had a
has with old Kiser. Or rather, he
nro nv : talk with me. You know / have