The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-09

i hat to the store which sent her to me. It's beautiful, but she felt it would
 be so much prettier with this pink ribbon am binding around the edge. Could I do it2 Would l? Well. It's really so much prettier than it was! The customer will be by for it
 in 20 minutes. If she had bought
 new hat it would have cost her Sf2 or
 S15 at least. I'm charging her just S2. So you sec my work can help i folks be economical too"
 The hat maker laughed. My star performance, I think. though. is the case of an awfully
 sweet woman, who purchased a hat
 that just exactly suits her in shape i in New York three or four years ago.
 She couldn't find another shape here
 she liked as well. The result is that
 she has brought it back to me three summers to trim. and this year, when
 finished 1t, she said she liked it | better than she ever had" Different COIors l Each time the color was made~dif- ferent, so that the chapeau looked | like a new creation. Nobody could detect it was the same hat. With all the three makings- over the cost l has amounted to so much less than
 a similar brand new hat" | Making a frame Is the hardest | thing in millinery" Mrs. Fuiford said and struggling with maiine. The prettiest stuffs to work with are taf-
 fetas and satins They stay right" Sometimes the clever milliner gets some awfully bad looking stuff-she even has to do hat cleaning-but she | Is proud of the fact that: 1 "I have never had dissatisfied
 customer. l think the reason is-out- 1 side Of the pains l expend. for
 surely do--that the hats look so much ] better than the customer eNpeeted-". Worked. Elsewhere II Years
 Mrs. Fuford really makes beautiful l creations, and loves her chosen call 1 ing. For II years before she became her own employer, she was with one
 of the niftiest department stores in the city-a store which still sends l her customers.
 You'd be astonished at what 1 get. It's everything. Seems like
 people never think anything gets too bad for me 10 remake. l do the
 work if I think the customer will 1 get value and satisfaction. How 1 ever, always advise strongly
 against remaking a hat when l
 know the customer can get new one for what my repair price would be. l never let my Idea of money outweigh the customers interest. I don't think that's right. Do you?' I said Iydidn't. T don't. Sometimes. though. I get utterly tired of looking at just hats. And there are days when I positively re-
 fuse to glance at the hat windows
 as I go by A man--a hat buyer
 stopped me on the street this week. Starting Something "Iav eyou noticed my new win dows?' he queried. "I we my first
 showing of winter hats out!r Don't say ,ne word to me-" I
 told him. Here I haven't even had
 vacation, and If you begin the racket for fall goods, you'll start the
 winter hat rush at my Shop. l won't have it."
 But the heartless creatures merely smiled and waved a careless hand and passed on.
 That gives me the chance I've al- ways craved to say I don't like the
 wearing of winter hats in the sum
 mer time, and sun<,r hats in the winter ti.ne. It makes he feel like
 everybody is trying to live too fast.
 And surnmer Is such a sweet season to prolongr'
 Mrs. Fulford is awfu.ly clever. q like my job" she related, be cause nobody can fire me and I can
 go home when I get ready