The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-17

! any carried one 10 his room, put II I'm
water and taken his design from life.
That also was among the failures.
Upton knew that onion hat Of his
was original. Still some one else must
have designed II simultaneously. For
a week later as Upton sat at dinner
he looked up and there two tables Jff
the very pretty golden-brown blonde
who dlned alone and seemed TO have
few frlends-Upton had seen her often
and not infrequently recalled her face
and coloring when summoning up i'm
aglnary models In his room-there, sat
the little blonde wearing the onion hat.
Yes, II was eactly like the hat he had
designed, with the colors as given in
his sketch reproduced exactly. An eX.
pert milliner could not have repro
diced the sketch more faithfully, and
the little blonde was just the model for
that hat. Upton was in n fever of eX-
citement He wanted to tell his friends
of the coincidence, but TO do so
would have necessitated telling OF his
own role as a hat designer.
Then-and this was really too much
for Upton's peace of mlnd-the little
blonde appeared one tempestuouS
spring night when the rain was pour.
ing outside and the wind could be
heard rushing around the window
panes-she appeared in the hat that
he had designed when thinking Of an
alrplane raid at night, and in the
eyes that seemed all tenderness
and mildness under the spring onion
hat there was now a haunting look of
distress and sorrow. But 1t was I'M
mistakably Upton's hat. Then appeared
the real masterpiece-the mussel-
she'll hat, and this seemed to suit the
little blondes face better even than
the others. It was a marvellous hat
and 1t was worn by wonderful model.
Upton noticed the eyes of other diners
focused on 1t and he realized then his
success In designing it, though he
could not guess how the hat had been
made.
After that Upton's models were all
alike. The little blonde face haunted
him and the millinery manager asked
him to try and vary the type of hats
he designed. They were all made for
the same type of face. Upton began |
to lose sleep. 1t was not so much the |
mystery of the matter, though it was
odd enough to have another person ex-
tract ideas from your mind In this way
md bring into realization so success
was that Upton was very much in love
with the little blonde and that the
little blonde was not absolutely indif-
'erent as to his existence he might
nave learned to his own satisfaction
rom the way her eyes dropped to her
)late whenever he looked toward her
IT dinner.
Finally after she had been wearing
he three hats for three weeks he
,ould stand the suspense no longer,
md he bravely followed her out of the
lining room one night, and with the
manner of an old friend babe her a
rood evening. Not being repulsed, he
at talking with her in the hotel re-
eption room.
Upton was a very direct sort of per
on and even before he sought to solve
he mystery he told her that he was
nore interested in her than he had
yer been in any girl before, and she.
weet, frank child that she was, told
i'm that she was very glad of that, for
he was lonely in the big city and
idn't know any nice young men. That
'as encouragement enough even for
lint heart and UptOn's was not faint
hen Upton spoke of the hats. When
e told her that he had designed them,
he turned very scarlet and said she
idn't know that it was from his room
he chambermaid had got them. She
aid she had come to the city to study
lillinery, as the only talent she had
yer displayed was that Of making her
wn hats. So she had come and had
Spected to succeed in the school until
ne discovered that TO begin with the
upils had to draw their own designs
| llulS anu SllC simply NOulN llOI vi ave-
he told the chambermaid her troubles
ecause she had no one else to talk to,
nd was all but decided to return home {
scouraged when the chambermaid |
ought her the crumpled drawings 5
ON one of the waste baskets. She I
Id taken them to school and passed c
em off as her own work. It was dis +
,nest but she was eager to succeed. {
hen she had worked out the designs 1
I'd she had taken every prize the
hOol offered One Of her hats was 7
ing to be sent to the international
illinery eXhibit-the muSsel-shell =,
e. The instructors were wild over
and a very well-known artist who
We them lectures on colors had de-
lred that another was a masterpiece
tones. 1t suggested an air raid at :,
yht, he said, though she couldn't see :.
w he thought that. -
$50 they are masterpieces, after all" a
)ton sighed, and before the evening h
is far spent they had not only settled "
the plans for the wedding but were :,
canning dreams Of starting an ex- a,
lsive shop in which they would COM =,
lie their talents. q
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