The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-11-10
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BY JANE OSBORN.

"Say, did you see the hat? Say, Tom
did you see the hat?"
It was not till Clara Tomson-Still
| known to customers as Mile. Clarice in
spite of her marriage to the younger
member of the firm of TOmsOn Broth
ers-had repeated her Interrogation for
the third time that Tom Tomson, her
| brother-in-law, looked up from his desk
and grunted a negative.
And just then the other Mr.. Tom
son-Bob Tomson, Clara'S husband
came into his brothers office where his
wife was waiting to go to luncheon
with him, and before she had time to
put her question to him he had made
that question unnecessary.
''Say, where did you get the girl with
the cherry hat?" he laughed, and then
slipping into the slang current among
the girls who worked in the millinery
Workrooms of which his wife still
chose to be in charge, he added:
'Some hat, that. Did the kid make it
herself?'
you don't suppose she could have
bought it, do you? I guess there was a
fire sale on cherries at the five and ten
cent store out in Podunk just before
she made her way to the city. You
wouldn't have to be told that she came
from the country. But I'm not going
to let the girls tease her. She seems
like nice sort and it's her first job"
The elder Mr.. Tomson saw the girl
little Margaret Daw, the young APP
prentice-just as she stood at her lock-
er, and before she had taken off her
much-discussed headgear he had a
chance to look and to smile. Clara and
his younger brother found considerable
time to cast bantering remarks about
Miss Cherry Hat" as they called her.
Tom was too much preoccupied to Join
them
To Tom Tomson hats were what
tons of coal are to big mine operators,
magnetic stars to theatrical managers.
He could no more have designed hat
than he could have designed yacht
no more than the mine operator could
have mined coal or the theatrical man
ager could have taken leading role.
But he knew, or thought he knew, good
hats when he saw them. There was a
look of understanding among the girls
in the workrooms when he had Miss
Cherry Hat" transferred from the
to his own office.
1t was one day a few weeks after
Margaret Daw had started work at
Tomson's that the younger member of
the company came to his brother in
serious mood and began to talk about
he girl.
ST don't want to butt into your pri-
7ate affairs" he said, "but If you real
v want to be seen with that little
country girl, can't you induce her to I
wear a regular hat? Haven't you ever
spoken to her about that cherry |
hing?"
mo" answered Tom, 81 haven't, and
the reason haven't is because
We have had too many other things to
ak about. Miss Daw is an extremely
harming and capable young woman"
"Oh, that's the way the wind blows,
8 it?" returned the brother. swell,
he does seem a nice enough girl. But,
onestly, Tom, couldn't you do some
hing about her hat?"
"She knows her business" interrupt
d Tom. 'That Miss Daw has got some
1eas that are going to make things
um."
'sYou don't mean that she knows any
hing about hats A girl that would
year that-it's wonder you don't
rant her to take Claras place in the
vOrkrooms."
mo, don't think that will be neces-
airy. She can stay here In the office
18th me and simply hand her idea on