New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-30
Squad Invades Shops to
Sell Suffrage Ball
Game Tickets.
PURCHASERS CHOOSE
HEADGEAR SLOWLY
Polo Grounds Seats for Satur.
day Go Rapidly-Miss
Russell Sells 80.

/ The ways OF man Win maid
I They're as simple as Simon. But the
ways Of a man with a hat TO buy are
absolutely inscrutable."
Miss Lillian Russell, counting change
upon her fingers, paused to make this
remark. And all the pretty society
women, artists, writers and women Of
affairs who are this week selling base
I ball tickets in the Truly Warner hat
/ shops for the suffrage ball game be-
tween the Giants and the Cincinnati;
Reds Saturday concurred in her YER
diet. They are probably the only
women in the world with real, inside
information about how men buy hats.
"All my life have admired them and
! marvelled at them for the way | sup
posed they did it," said Mrs. John
Blair, leader of the ticket selling bril-
gade. "And now I'm seeing them do
it. Aren't they just too sweet and
funny for words ?"
Women Get Revelation.
She had supposed, she explained, that
when a mans soul stirred with the
longing for new headgear. ne swung
of car into a hat shop, smiled court
eously, said briskly, seven and quar-
ter, please. Thanks. I'll wear it,
handed the clerk the exact change, and
swung out again.
Yesterday was a revelation to the
suffrage ticket sellers. Outside the
doors of some shops with gay suf-
fTage banners in the windows a long
string of men were waiting. Baseball
tickets and new straw hats just nat
urally 90 together, and II isn't every
day that you can combine the two
with the possible chance thrown in Of a
smile or a compliment upon your taste
in headgear. The men were wise
enough 10 know 1t. And they forgot
IN their pleasant excitement, that they
might be giving away their age-old
secret.
Haven't you got another straw
something that would match my mus
tacke? Wait until | study this from
the side. No, | don't care about IT,
I want something that will make me
look tall and slender. III try on that
shelfful, too, please. I'm bringing back
this Panama that you sold me
day before yesterday, and | want some
thing that Will make me- look little
more soulful"
mat vas how the che u went, anc
the suifragists looked at each other
and smiled The women were finding
with establishment that men in gen
eral give twice the amount OF time and
attention 70 the purchase OF nat that
their wives DO.
and | admire them for IT," said
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw. why, that
man in the corner has been studying
the side effect of that pineapple straw
for half an hour, anyhow. I'm proud
of him. Tickets TO the game between
the Giants and the Reds. Three
Thank YOU
One Man Buys Thirty Tickets.
Miss Russell sold thirty tickets in
the first thirty seconds she was IN
/ tho store at Thirty-seven:h Street anc
I broadway. s. Dublirer, who bought
them. made the record purchase Of the
@Say something that he will remem-
her always" whispered Miss lheo-
dosia Bean into Miss RusselFs ear
IT'S nice day" smiled MISS Rus
soil. and her customer looked as II ne
would remember it always.
you don't think the other crown
would have suited me better" an anX-
ious fat man asked friendly SUI
fragist. ,.
II think it's the most becoming hai
YOU could possibly wear" she assured
him. This one with the striped 6and
though that would be a particularly
good style for you, don't you think :!
And he took it, and row OF seats ior
the game into the bargain.
Il like to see them take a lot OF
time" said Miss Sally Mcdonald.
Pm strong for baseball, for SUI
frage and for hats" said a customer
proving the truth of her theory, I'll
In each Of the five hat shops where
suffrage banners blazed and baseball
tickets melted away the concluslons
reached were the same. Men are strong
for suffrage, for headgear and for base
ball. -. .t.
are Miss Russell, Miss Marie DRESSER
the Princess Troubetzkoy, Miss Mary
Francis. Miss Rose O'Neill, Miss FANNIE
Hurst. Mrs. Ogden Reid, Miss Ethel
IIovd Patterson and Miss Theodosla