Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-06-07

spFtnk uulon. UPTON nad mad them fof
dinner the night before and had actu.
silly carried one 20 his room. put n IN
winter and taken his design from life.
Thnf also was smong the failures.
Upton knew that onion hat % hts
was original. stu some one else must
have designed n simultaneously. For
q week later a. Upton sat az dinner
he looked up and there two tables n
the very pretty golden.brown blonde
who dined alone and seemed 90 have
few friends-Upton had seen her often
and not infrequently recalled her face
and coloring when summoning up Inn
sginary models IN his room-there. sat
the little blonde wearing the onion hat.
Yes. II was eac:ly like the hat he had
designed, with the colors a. given In
his sketch reproduced exactly. An en-
pert milliner could not have repro
duced tss sketch more faithfully. and
the little blonde was Just the model for
that hat Upton was In q fever Of en-
citement He wanted 10 tell his friends
OF tho coincidence. but 10 DO 20
would have necessitated telling Of his
own role az hat designer.
Then-and this was really 600 much
for Upton's peace OF mind-ths little
blonde appeared one tempestuous
sprinsEnisht when the rain was pour
Ing outside and the wind could be
heard rushing around the window
NJ n s~-Sh. $4,000 A. A. 49,
he had designed when thinning Of an
sfrpisne raid AZ night. and In the
eyes that seemed all Tenderness
and mildness under tbs spring onion
hat there was nov . haunting look Of
distress and sorrow. But u wrs uu-
mistskably Upton's hat. rhen appeared
the real mastsrpiecs-ths munssl-
she'll hat. and this seemed 10 suit the
little blondes ,facs better sven than
the others. 10 wasa marvellous bat
and Il was worn By wonderful model
Upton noticed the eyes Of other diners
focused on n and he realized then his
success In designing H. though he
could not guess how the hat had besn
made. There was nothing a Ell strihr
Ing IN the cut or eoiorins Of si,s hst--
In the usual acceptance of the word
That n attracted attention was. Upton
knew. simply because Il was distinc-
tive.
After that Upton's models were an
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 fcr
the Same type Of face. Upton began
to lose sleep. II was not 20 much the
mystery % the matter. though n was
odd enough 10 have another person en-
tract ideas from your mind In this way
and bring into realization 20 success
fully your thwsrted dreams. The thing
was that Upton was very much IN love
with the little blonde ana that the
little blonde was not absolutely indif-
fereDt a. 10 his existence he might
have learned 20 his own satisfaction
from the way her eyes dropped 30 her
plate whenever he looked toward hes
a dinner.
Finally after she had been WEARING
the three hats for three weeks he
could stand the suspense no longer.
and he bravely followed her out OF tho
dining room one night. and with the
manner OF an old friend babe her q
good evening. Not being repuised. he
sat talking with her In the hotel re-
eeption room.
Upton was q very direct sort Of per
son and even before he sought 10 solve
the mystery he told her that he was
more interested IN her than he had
ever been IN any girl before. and she.
sweet. frank child that she was. told
him that she was very glad OF that. for
she was lonely IN the big city aud
didn't know any nice young men. That
was Encouragement enough even for q
faint heart. ana upton's was not faint.
Then Upton spoke Of the hats. when
he told her that he had designed them.
she turned very scarlet and said she
didn't know that n was from his room
the ehambsrmaid had got them. She
said she had come 10 the city 10 study
as the only talent sho had
ever displayed was that OF making her
own hats 30 she had come and bad
expected 10 succeed IN the school until
she discovered that 90 begin with The
pupils had 10 draw their own designs
OF hats and she simply could not drav.
She told the ehambermaid her troubles
because she had no one else 10 talk 10.
and was all but decided 20 return home
discouraged when the ehambernaid
brought her the crumpied drawings
from one Of the waste baskets. she
had taken them 10 school and passed
them on a. her own WORK. II was die
honest but she was eager 20 succeed.
Then she had worked out the designs
and she had taken every prise the
school offered. One Of her hats was
going 10 be sent TO tho international
millinery exhlblt-the mussel-shei
one. The instructors were wild over