The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-09

ing plump, blond. and rosy. She start.
ed back a little at what she saw and
gave a little cry.
"Angeline! Where did you get all
these
II bought them Wednesday when 1
went to the city. 1 had a beautiful
time buying: Fan, if any one had said
money on my forty-f1fth birthday I'd
have laughed. 1t doesn't seem pos
sihle yet. Fan, where did your hat
come FROM"
"oh. do you like it " The younger
woman was bending over handfuls of
cerise satin. II got it at Miss Tow.
er's. lSdon't think it goes very we'll
with my suit, do you?" ~
No" she said, cit doesn't go with
your suit at all . You better get you
another one. I'll buy this. How
much do you want for it?"
Fanny Johns laughed. "Angeline
I'll give You IS for it," pursued
Angelina. greedily. She found her
purse and drew forth a bill. "There!"
1T only cost me four" Fanny con-
fessed, soberly.
Il don't care. Til give you five. It's
just the hat I've been looking for, no
matter If Sally Tower did make 1t.
She v shows me such hats. II
she did 1 shouldn't be running up tn
the city all the time"
Fanny Johns removed the hat and
appropriated the bill. II guess maybe
it's worth a dollar to walk all the
way home bareheadcd," she murmur
ed. "Well, 1 must go on. I only
came to see il you were going to Mrs.
Perkins's card party tonight"
I'm going" Angelina said. Though
If there's n thing on earth more
than another that hate and despise
it's that combination Of cards and
Carrie Perkins. But it's a place to
show off my good clothes. If I was
eighteen ther'd be plenty of dances
and affairs of that sort, but being
older I nave to content myself with
cards, even If I do hate EN-"
"Angeline, you're too amusing" gig
sled Fanny. az she radiantly pocketed
her IS and Jared forth bareheaded,
leaving her hat behind.
Angelina took up the hat and eyed
it critically. She had paid o than
it was worth and knew it, but she
had wanted it. and that was all that
mattered. She went to the glass and
put 1t on. Its ugliness %astonished her.
Moreover, she saw with unusual clear.
ness her own sharpness Of feature
and brown wrinkled skin. "My good
ness" h breathed. my complexion
looks as II it had lain out in the rain"
Impatiently she snatched off the
hat and viewed it at arms length.
Instantly it resumed it's soft inno-
cence and the graceful charm that had
marked it when it sheltered Fanny's
light hair and pink and white face,
"Mv sakes!' h gasped. II expected
- look the SAM in this hat as she
I'D" ~
Slowly turning. she looked about
'er at the array of elegance she had
ret released from tho hox. Pointing
attn. now. l bought it because that
blond model who tried it on was such
y beauty in it. That wrap came Off q
wax figure that vas near enough like
Fanny to be her own image. These
blouses I got for the same reason"
Her thoughts went back wildly. 'Why
I've always bought things in just this
way-because they looked good on
somebody else. And that's why
they've never looked anyhow on me.
When Fanny walked in with that blue
hat on I said to myself that there was
the very hat I wanted. I had a no.
ton I'd look in it just the way Fanny
did +. And I don't. Fanny knew
wouldn't. She must have laughed in
her sleeve. But then she got her mon
ey, and land knows she needs it!
wish I'd never seen the hat. It's
showed me up to myself. I guess I'm
the biggest kind Of a fool, floating
around in silks and satins that didn't
become me no more than a peacock's
feathers would become a goose"
She dropped into a chair and 20
cred her little worn out face with her
two homely hands. She did not weep
because she never wept over anything.
but the soul within her seemed to
wiring out ears. Presently sne lifted
her face. Il had decided" she
thought. ito wear that cerise attn
to Carrie Perkins, party tonight. /
could Just sse every woman there
cooking ct me In envy and Franz.
Furber looking at me in some other
way. I had a notion that he'd take to
that csrise satin somehow. ! suppose
I'm . fool 70 think about him et-all,
but I used to like him when We went
to school toEsther sud-I'vs never eot
over T. The ayst thjng I fAouS0s