Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1914-01-08
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ANOTHER FOOL GIRL
BY DONALD ALLEN.

Have you seen it?"
isn't it great?T
They say the town will jump right
ahead now"
Miss Cynthia Basset the old maid,
had opened a millinery store In the
village of Hinkley with the $500 LETT
her by the will of an uncle,
There were two dry goods stores,
grocery, a drug store and wheat ele-
vator at the depot and while the 700
inhabitants boasted OF the enterprise
of their own town all felt that there
was something lacking. ilinkly had
no millinery store The nearest one
was over at Brownsville, twelve miles
away.
But the long-felt want had been filled
at last, and there was a rush to the
new millinery store to pat Miss Bas-
set on the back.
I'm a-asklng jest 5000 more for my
house and lot than | was yesterday!
exclaimed Deacon Snyder as he stood
at the door and peered in; and half an
hour later real estate was on the boom
from the red schoolhouse to the white
bridge
Miss Basset had to have an assist
ant. and she had engaged Minnie Long,
the belle Of the village. She was not
only the belle, but she had natural
knack OF Aat-trimming. She could take
a bow, rooster feather and buckle
of some sort. and out of an old hat
create such dream of a headpiece
that the minister would stop in his ser
mon to gaze at it and wonder If 1t
wasn't his duty to warn her against
/ Satan's wiles He could prove that
jaunty hats had led more women into
the downward path than any other one
/ influence.
4 Miss Minnie had been engaged to
/ Roscoe Dayton for three months be
/ fore the great millinery event He was
young man and had just started out
as builder They we're to be married
at the end Of three more months.
4 Hinkly was only quiet village, and
yet it was seldom without its stran-
1 ger, most of them being agents for
one thing or another A good-looking
man, who claimed to represent lamp
house in the city, but who was just
then taking a brief vacation, was one
of those at the grand opening of the
millinery emporium He was there to
smile over the enterprise of the
! thing. That was his first sight of
Mamie Long, and he made vow with
in minute
| Roscoe Dayton was not plug" of
young man He was ambitious and
| a hustler, but he wasn't up to date
with a young man from the city. No
| one, not even Minnie, expected him to
be He didn't have the clothes, the
cane. the two watch chains. the smile,
the bow nor the glib tongue He had
had no rival thus far, and there had
been no jealousy on either side.
Mr. Claude Barrie as the lamp house
agent gave his name, tarried in the
millinery store a long ten minutes, and
when he had departed a woman voiced
the opinion Of a dozen others when
she whispered:
IF that young fellow stays in town
a week there's going to be trouble for
somebody"
There was the beginning of trouble
within an hour A busy-body met Ros-
coe Dayton on the street and called out
to him:
You'd better have your eyes peeled,
| young mani"
I'm always looking" was the laugh
ing reply
You know that lamp house agent
| from the city,"
Saw him on the street yesterday"
He's charmer, amt hep"
Maybe"
HE was charming Minnie Long
down at the millinery store. Say,
they are sure stuck on each other!"
"Nonsense!"
Minnie, too, would have laughed at
the idea, but week later Roscoe felt
1t his duty to say to her: 81 hear that
young Barrie is a caller at your house"
why. yes, he has called" was the
reply
Haven't you become acquainted
very rapidlyT
so you are jealous, chr
Il don't like him He is a stranger
to us all He may be what he claims
to be, but no one knows. Is 1t flirta-
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