Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-05-16
Litt1e-Hat
Lady
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BY JANE OSBORN
Copyright. 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per 6yndicate.)


Designing hats for a popular-price
wholesale millinery establishment was
not Upton Pread's Ideal OF q stalwart,
life-sized mans occupation. Still even
young men with that innate feeling
for line and color that marks them-or
brands them-as artists before they
have had fair chance to determine
for themselves whether they wish to
follow an artists career or not, have
to ent and have to be clothed, and de-
signing women's hats seemed at the
time 10 be the only opportunity that
afforded what Prend considered llv-
Ing wage. Getting IN occasional order
for portrait perhaps was more the
sort Of thing he had dreamed OF, and
more the sort Of thing his friends ex-
pected but II would not have provided
for him comfortable existence at the
Stanley Arms. and Upton Pread found
that living at that well-appointed little
hotel had advantages that Offset the
designing OF hats.
Sull Upton did not like to have peo-
pie know the nature OF his artistic"
work. In the morning after breakfast
he got out his drawing board and. shut
up In his snug little chlntz room, he
would call into being first the image
Of heads OF fair women, and then. as II
by magic, he would summon hats TO
crown them. Hastily and with quick
stroke OF his pencil he would sketch
the pretty heads and then, with MI
nuteness that made reproduction by q
mllliner possible, he would portray the
hat. Having made some four or FIVE
sketches he would roll them up secure
ly In his portfolio and. after having
had luncheon In tho hotel dining room,
he would sally forth to the millinery
establishment, there 10 deliver his
wares. They were not always accept
cd. In fact he was expected only TO
deliver two designs day and ne made
sometimes MS many as six. After his
visit to the mlllIner's he had good
part Of the afternoon free-not en-.
tirely free, either, for II he elected 10
90 10 one Of the fashionable indoor
ice links he always had before him
the task OF studying the women's hats,
not so much TO get ideas" for designs
but TO learn-whnt 10 him was the
hardest lesson--whnt women thought
was becoming. Upton had idens of his
own about beauty In women's apparel.
and often when he made design that
he thought was his masterpiece II was
only 30 have the manager OF the MILL.
merry establishment push the design
aside. declaring that II he put out hats
like that his business would be ruined.
So Upton would carry back the reject.
I'd drawings and crush them into his
waste basket and starr afresh the next
morning with an effort TO surpass his
own notions about hats.
Upton always worked 10 secrecy.
You see he was not proud Of his call.
ing. n the substantial, slow-moving
chambernaid happened stll to be set
ting his room TO rights when he ~.
turned from breakfast. he was lonth
to get out his drawing things, but lin.
Gered over his morning paper or
walked Idly about his room. One day
after she had left the room and he had
begun In earnest, there was a knock at
his door and, without waiting for Up.
ton 10 cafl out "come.- the chamber
maid stuck her head In the door. She
held . waste basket In her hand. "You
don't make A mistake, sir. do you. and
throw away plctsrs you wantT she
asked. "Some Of these here pretty
girls heads, ! mean, seems most too
good TO throw away"
-Oh. those" Upton said rs the
woman held up n crushed and crump
led girls head wearing what the day
before he had judged one OF his best
designs only 10 have II condemned a'
impossible by the practical millinery
manager. those are rubbish. Just DC
them-to amuse myself, rs II were
And the chambcrmaid withdrew. drag
ging her mop and carpet sweeper after
her.
The hat In question was inspired BY
q musscl she'll. Upton had seen hat,
that were inspired by roses and swee,
peas and even by canary birds. Tha,
sort Of thing was ,rite. He happened
10 have a few shells that he had gath
| crcd on the sea shore the summer he