The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
Selecting Wifey's Hat Is Mere
ly Flirting With Tragedy.
Muse Stirs Margaret To Divulge
the Cold, Inside Facts.
OUGHT TO Be LAW ABOUT IT
SUITS Some Day May Pass Anti
Hat-Buying-Spree Bill.
Scene: Fifth Avenue, n. "
Maybe He Was From Abilene.
BY MARGARET MASON.

fWr;tten for The Topeka State JournalO
There WAS little man
And he bought a little hat,
To take his pretty little wife,
He thought it out of sight;
Well it n sight. all right
And he spoiled it all her happy little IRE,
He thought himself smart
At the chapeau buying art
That he~always picked her hats from then
Till ashamed to how her head
In his hats the lady fled
To Dahomey where they've not hats any
If your husband is like that
And should bring You home nat >e,,,
Leave him quickly-warning take from
what I've said.
If you don't my little dear,
Then l very greatly fear
That the blame and hat must rest upon
your head
New York, Sept. 29.-A'strolling up
Fifth avenue the other day to get a
view of all the latest fashions new
and other things of interest, too, L
saw a sight l sensed to be the begin
mig of a tragedy, altho perhaps you'll
not agree that such simple thing
could be a terrible catastrophe but
that is what it seemed to me. Before
a hat shop, very smart, whose wares
with super-subtle art within the shad-
ow of the mart attract each 1emale
passerby, cen as the spider does the
fly, and lets them not by till they buy,
l saw a man of portly mein WITH rud-
dy face and manner keen Il judge ne
came from Abilene or some small city
in the west), and there he stood with
yisage pressed against the glass. Full
well l guessed his dire intent and was
distressed. knew that in the book
of Fate twas writ his unsu pechnS
mate, away out west right on the
pate was due to get an awful blow
when he came hme with face aglow
and straight unwrapped her GIT TO
show.
Victim of Modiste's Snare.
knew that husband meant to buy
his wife a hat, twas in his eye. l had
a wild desire to cry,\but all did was
sadly stare, and soon l saw MN enter
there a victim of the modlste snare.
Alas, I knew it was too late to cnanSe
that poor wife's hatful fate, and so
left with a quickened gait.
oh why will husbands do TINS
thing? The hearts of helpless wives
they wiring when hats they homewaro
, haste to bring. I'm sure the nat Sc
Iecting call, in spring or summer, VIII
ter, fall, has sounded IN the nVes u
all. It's time we women took STAND
and dubbed together in band 10 stop
this outrage thru the land. L think
we should all come out flat and let
them know just where We're al
against the band-hand-picked hat
NOW let HE HdStC ~ dNoAAAS' -
| only when they go and buy hat alone
and on the sly, that women hate hats
Husbands buy. It's quite all right
when wifie's nigh, to catch the sales
girls knowing eye.
Lucky Girl! She Gets Three.
| L love to have my husband go with
| me when shopping for chapeaux he
wants to buy each one we see that Is
| becoming quite to me and so l get
| not one but three.
And now the bright thought comes
! to me- We'll solve the thing this way
YOU see, and turn our grief right into
| glee As soon as women get the vote
| 1 hope they'll make a little note OF
| this hat matter that l wrote, and pass
a law when husbands feel the urge OF
| hat selection steal thru all their be
1 ing head to heel that they be no
allowed to GO unchaperoned to spend
their dough, and buy a hat that's
beauty's foe. Accompanied by hi:
wife must be each man on hat buying
spree, or subject to the law he'll be
| Two years imprisonment or fine il
| silver dollars five or nine if he il
| found with fell design alone in any ha
| shop smart about to buy a work o
art that's sure to break his poor wife
heart.
/ But if this scheme of mine falls thru
and as solution will not do. why here
another, simpler too. Twill cure hin
I'm sure of that, if we just give him Il
| for tat and go and pick HIM out
| hat