The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-06-15
THE RASPBERRY
Hy Olive KENNsET.

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When Blair Tuttle's sister Maui
came home from finishing school sh'
unquestionably had been thorough,
finished"
Maud had always been content t,
wear hats that came from Mrs Grin
dies, but since she bad brought hom,
two hats from Madam Roses in New
York she hadn't any use for Crindl'
style.
Isn't that the most impossible hai
you ever saw" she said one day wher
she was passing Mrs Crindle's witt
that big, good-hearted brother Of hers
who was now in the graduating class
at Truxdale. captain OF the football
team and one OF the most popular men
II looks just like a raspberry sun
dae and it is quite as insipid and alb
surd."
Blair was more attentive to Maud s
little TRADE than she had expected
You ought to know, / suppose.
agreed Blair Now. I'll tell you why
am interested. You know our senior
play. or course. no one is supposed
to know what it is about, but | have
/ got to get your help. For some rea-
son, | am in charge OF the costumes.
| have got to see that the fellows get
the right sort OF thing to wear for
\ their parts. Now, one of the charac.
ters is young gawk of country
girl, and her part calls for just the
kind OF thing that you seem to think
that raspberry-sundae hat stands for.
was thinking maybe I'd get you to
trim up something for me, but l guess
you couldn't do any better than that
hat"
Oh Blair, it would be the hit Of the
show"
Maud agreed to buy the hat for her
brother.
Caste lines were but loosely drawn
IN Truxdale. The minister's daughter
had felt no hesitancy in marrying the
son OF the grocer on the corner. the
young doctor felt 1t an honor to know
the daughter Of old Dobbs, who drove
the station wagon.
So Clarice higgins came in for her
share Of the college fun-little bright
eyed, slender Clarice, who had been
known to every sweet-toothed boy in
college as the dispenser of his favorite
brand Of soda water or sundae.
But Clarice had cherished ambition.
There was not enough scope for her
imagination in the task of soda dispen-
ser. So when an apprentice was need
ed at Crindles millinery shop she left
the fountain on a days notice. Blair
Tuttle could but feel satisfaction IN
knowing that hereafter those bright
eyes OF hers would shine only for
naughty Mrs. Crindle and her other as.
sistants or the occasional woman shop
pers who came in to try on the new
millinery.
Il am so perfectly happy tonight
Clarice told Blair when he called at
her boarding house to take her to the
movies, that single source Of evening
diversion in Truxdale The most won
derful thing has happened MY hat
my very own hat--that | worked on
so hard has been sold / didn't see
the young lady that bought it, but the
girl who waited on her said she looked
like a fashion plate, with q hat that
must have come from New York. Isn't
that wonderful"
Blair had more than once before
tried to get his courage up to tell the
high-spirited little girl that she was
part Of his own plans for happiness
and that in the career he was about TO
start after his graduation from col.
lege he needed her encouragement
more than anything.
But, Clarice, / don't want you to be
Independent don't want you to 60
on this way"
Clarice was too full OF the enthu
siasm of achievement to be stilled
Il do wish you had seen it before
Ii was sold. that hat OF mine, The
silk was just the color Of the rasp,
berry sirup we used at the fountain
Suddenly Blair realized that this
masterpiece OF Clarices was none
other than the property hat he had at
present slowed away in his own room
What Maud had said to him about ii I
came back with vividness. What il 4
Clarice knew? What if she ever found /
out that this hat on which she had
spent so much thought and care, and
On which she had banked such hopes
Df future success, was bought only
because 1t was a caricature? Blair
tried to think OF scheme whereby
Ter feelings might be saved
DO you know. Clarice, my own sis
.er. the one who has been away to
boarding school, bought that hat She
loticed it the first thing. / must get
gou two girls to meet each other
iome time. / know you win be great
riends. believe Maud is going away
Tisiting this summer sometimes, and
he wanted that raspberry hat to 60
With one OF her new dresses. You
'ught to have heard what she said
bout it! guess it is most too pretty
o wear around here in Truxdale. But
'larice, you don't want to go on with
hat millinery business idea OF yours.
lou know what ! am driving at Two
r three Of the seniors are going to be
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