Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-06-07
Littlc-Hat
Lady
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~ JANE OSBORN

Designing hats for n popular-price
Wholesale millinery establishment was
not UPTON Pread's Ideal Of q staiwart.
life-sired mans occupation. SIN even
young men with that innate feeling
for line and color that marks them--or
brands them-as artists before they
have had q fair chance 10 Determine
for themselves whether they wish 10
follow an artists career or not. have
TO eat and have 10 be clothed. and de-
signing women's hats seemed NJ the
time 90 be the only opportunity that
afforded what Presf considered q Nv
ing wage. Getting On occasional order
for q portrait perhaps vas more the
sort OF thing he had dresmed Of. and
more the sort of thing his friends ex.
pected. but n would not have provided
for him a comfortable existence az the
Stanley Arms and Upton Presd found
that living AZ that veiisppoinisd little
hotel had advantages that onset the
Designing oflhsts.
sun Upton ana not like 10 have peo-
pie know the nature OF hls "artistic-
work. In tho morning aftef breakfast
he rot out HE drawing board and. shut
~ In his snug .nftis chints room he
would call into being nrst the Image
Of heads Of fair women. and then, 90 n
By magic. he would summon hats 10
crown them. Hastily and with quick
stroke Of his pencil be would sketch
the pretty heads and then. with mr.
nutsness that made reproduction By
millinsr possible. he would portray tine
hat Having made some four OF i've
sketches he would roll them up secure
ly In his portfolio and. after having
had luncheon IN the hotel dining room.
he would sally forth 10 the millinery
establishment. there 10 deliver his
wares They were not always accept
ed In fact. he was expected only to
deliver two designs dag and be made
sometimes as many as str. After his
visit 10 the milliner's he had q good
part Of the afternoon frse-not en-
tirely free. either. for n he elected 20
70 20 one Of the fashionable indoor
Ice Kinks he always had before him
the task OF studying the vomen's hats.
not 20 much 20 get IDEAS for designs
but 10 learn-what 10 him wss the
hardest lesson-what women thought
was becoming. Upton had IDEAS OF his
own about beauty In womsu's apparel.
and often when he made design that
he thought was his masterpiees II was
only 10 have the manager OF the miiii-
merry establishmsnt puah the design
aside. declaring that n he put out hats
like that his business would be ruined
50 Upton would carry back the reject
"a drawings and erash them into HIS
waste basket and start sfresh the next
morning with m effort 10 surpass HIS
own notions about hats.
Upton always worked IN secrecy.
You see he was not proud OF HIS call
ing. II the substantial. siow-movinG
happened stili 10 be set
ting his room to rights when he 70
turned from breakfast. he was loath
10 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 knock a.
hiz door and. without waiting for Up-
ton 70 call out come" the chamber
maid stuck her head In the door. She
held q waste basket IN her hand. "You
don't make mistake. sir. DO Jon. and
throw away pictsrs you vantr' she
asked. "Soms u these here pretty
girls hsads. ] mean. seems most too
good 10 throw away
~Oh. those Upton said &c the
woman held up q crushed and erump-
led girls head wearing what the dag
before he had Judged one Of HIS best
designs only 10 have n condemned 40
Impossible BY the practical millinery
those are rubbish. Just do
amuse myself. as q were
And the chambermaid withdrew, drag.
ging her mop and carpet sweeper after
her. A
The hat IN question was inspired ny
q mussel shell. Upton had seen hats
tuht WIZ tnaEtNNa " NN~E4 eu0 HWttt
peas aud even by canary birds That
sort Of thing was trite. He happened
10 have a few shells that he had gath.
cred on the sea shore the summer be-
fore and treasured Tor no very good
reason. aud n occurred 10 him ono day
that In the graceful curves OF the mus
sci shell and IN Its deep. penetrating
black with brown. green and blue shad-
lngs. he might devise hat that would
be worth designing. The head he drew
for this design was the head az q see
nymoh. lie always made the faces
nrst TO suit the hats-lf the hat show
Cd japanese influence the girl was
slightly slant-eyed. n she Eorp q som
brero she was Of Spanish features.
The hat was Of black sllk above with
shadlngs Of brown and blue ana ths
lining beneath the hrim was Of the
shlmmerins gray o. the inside Of
mussel shell. Upton really revsled IN
this hat--only 10 have Il rejected the
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