The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-01-02
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wound closely about her head She
pinned UP her gown until it did not
show below the long black coat, and
folded white linen handkerchief
about her throat over the delicate lace
ana garnitura of the modish waist
Then she looI.ed obviously at the hat.
With a girls instinct, her first
thought was for her borrowed lumage.
A fine mist was slanting down and
had fretted the window pane until
there was nothing visible but dull gray
shadows Of the world that few mo-
notonously by. With sudden remem-
brance, she opened the suitcase and
took out the folded black hat, shook
it into shape. and put it on. 1t was
maunish, of course, but girls often
wore such hats.
As she surveyed herself in the long
mirror of her door, the slow color stole
into her cheeks. Yet the costume was
not unbecoming, nor unusual She
looked like a simple school girl, or a
young business woman going to her
days work.
But she looked at the fashionable
proportions of the other hat with some
thing like alarm. How could she pro.
tect it? She did not for moment
think of abandoning it, for it was her
earnest desire to return it at once,
unframed to its kind purloiner.
She summoned the newsboy and pur-
chased three thick newspapers. From
these, with the aid Of few pins, she
made large package of the hat She
decided to 60 bareheaded, and put the
white kid gloves in the suitcase, hut
she took off her beautiful rings, and
hid them safely inside her dress.
She sacrificed one Of her precious
quarters to get rid of the attentive por-
ter, and started off with a brisk step
down the long platform to the station.
She followed a group OF people into
car, which presently brought her into
the ncighborhood of the large stores,
as she had hoped it would. 1t was
with relief that she recognized the
name on one Of the stores as being of
worldwide reputation.
Well for her that she was an expert
enced shopper She vent straight to
/ the millinery dener-rort aud arranged
10 have the hat boxed and sent 20 the
address Durham b. given her
It had cost i.ee TO express the hat
than she had feared yet her stock of
money was woefully small. Some kind
Of a dress she must have, and a wrap,
that she might be disguised, but what
could she buy and yet have something
left for food? Lifting her eyes, she
saw a sign over q table, inene
Skirts. rs cents and s1.oQ."
Here WIS a ray Of hope. She turned
eagerly TO examine them. Piles of
somber skirts. b.Go and black and tan.
They were stout and coarse and scant.
and not of the latest cut, but what mat.
tered it, She decided on a seventy
five cent black one
Growing wise with experience, she
discovered that she could get a black
sateen shirtwaist for fifty cents. Rub
hers and a cotton umbrella took an.
other dollar and half. She must save
at least q dollar to send back the suit.
case by express.
A bargain-table Of odds and ends of
woollen Jackets. golf vests, and old
fashioned blouse sweaters, selling off
at a dollar apiece, solved the prob
lem of wrap. She selected a dark
blouse. of an ugly, purply blue, but
thick and warm. Then with her pre-
eious packages she asked a pleasant.