The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-09-07
THE RASPBERRY
BY OLIVE kENNsEr.


wear hats that came from Mrs, Grin
dies. but since she had brought home
two hats from Madam Roses IN New
York she hadn't any use Cor Crindle
style.
Isn't that the most impossible hat
you ever saw" she sAii one day when
she was passing Mrs Crindls's with
that big. gOod-heartsd brother Of hers,
who was now in the graduating class
at TruIdals. captain Of the football
team and one OF the most popular men.
1t looks Just like a raspberry sun
dae and 1t is quite as insipid and alb
surd"
Blair was more attentive to Maud's
little TRADE than she had expected.
You ought to know. | sVppose.-
agreed Blair Now, Ill tell you why
/ an interested. You know our senior
play. OF 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 chsrac-
tiers is a young gawk of a country
girl. and her part calls for Just the
kind OF thing that you seem TO think
that raspberry hat stands for.
| was thinking maybe I'd get you to
trim up something for me, but 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 it 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 Ciarice. who had been
known to every sweet-toothed boy in
college as the dispenser OF his fayorite
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 Crindle's millinery shop she left
the fountain on a days notice. Blair
| Tuttle could but feel a 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 ne 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 . fashion plate, with a 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. l don't want yea 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
it 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 Clarice's was none
other than the property hat he had al
present slowed away in his own room
What Maud had said to him about II
came back with vividness. What il
Clarice knew? What II 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
Of future success, was bought only
because it was a caricature? Blair
tried TO think OF a scheme whereby
her feelings might be saved.
DO You know, Clarice, my own sis
ter. the one who has been away 10
boarding school, bought that hat She
noticed it the first thing. / must get
you two girls to meet each other
some time. know you will be great
friends. believe Maud is going away
visiting this summer sometimes, and
she wanted that raspberry hat to 60
with one Of her new dresses. You
ought to have heard what she said
about it! l guess it is most too pretty
to wear around here in Truxdale. But
Clarice, you don't want to go on with
that millinery business idea OF yours
You know what l am driving at Two
or three of the seniors are going to be
married right after college closes
/ Commencement is next week. and