Show II ELIPH HEWLITT The MILLIN MILLINERY RY PROBLEM BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER U fi LJ I Why hy how do you do said aid Mrs dobr dohI and saw u up as she opened her looking little man with the then n whiskers oh 0 on 1 her front porch our right in I e you are i that ie It goin to preach orr o aint you u oil 11 noni said Eliph Hewlitt i I but hut walking into moo the i 1 1 lor ti tt the same time Nom not noti i c i ii th I I v I though bough I am Ute the I l ini j js I may s ay eay fIR My n t Hewlitt and Im selling thi this neighborhood a work in one hum humI I 1 ol don t want no books said Mrs JIrs lup h ith w wj He le her r smile of grat gratl 1 l elcome changed to a frown nd n I i c n t afford to buy none if I r did didd 1 d 1 Uk it She glanced toward the i iter table as she spoke sp ke e and Eliph I 1 Itt saw there a new t as gor gorf gorIus f Ius u as a an autumn sunset If there ther thern r rt n any kinds of flowers or any colors it jt were wert ert not worked into the compo compoli M li in of ot If th hat it was because a ao o II lodge of them had not reached v Johnson m county Iowa Miss Fl l tilla rilIa I 4 asey had made use of o nil that SIt li had any inv knowledge of and it Imd emed as its if she had a rather wide widel l Ea Fal i comes omes early this year earlier han usual said Eliph Ell ph Hewlitt gent genty y jr ing his whiskers Some years doe doc and some years It but butI I Ion on nt t know that I over ever saw w a richer 1 kl hat than what that is It must 1 J have ave ae ot ost considerable Looks like It mid uld be bt becoming to your complexion Iid you ou get Ret it from trem Paris PrIs PArisSo No So I snapped snap Mrs Billup HI ou U think to me meT T 1 Jy up my mJ hat It wont do dou u no 04 good because when I say I Int Int In nt n t bio bir bu a book I mean mean it U and that lS c 5 the end t nd of It 1 Nou 0 if anybody had ad asked mo me I wol uld ld have ne said that was a Paris hat aid did Hewlitt taking It In his nd lId fur for closer loser examination but I IK K your milliner studied in Paris she No o she snapped Mr Billup a ii Flotilla Case Casey aint ever stud i id d nowhere but right here In town M d all the Paris she will ever see you uld put in one eye It If you aim to sell sen sellI 1 I guess gues you might move Hove right tong along to the tho next house You wont il me none It was the tile style of it made me think it was a Paris Paria hat lInt said EUph 1 kindly lv I 1 should judge that h hat t hat has fifty different colors on ir 11 l and aRd I never f ver knew know nay any n but Paris mil 1 r put so many on one hat at one onet t ue i e and not make you ou feel that it was as I r can en seo sea that this hat nas a sort of or lavishness lavIness about It and it aint skimped for trimming That is JJ the way a I like a hat Get a big biff hat to toJ J begIn Rin nith lIth th and then put plenty on it That is why I dont like New York hats Now you oU never rever see a hat like UI this Js In m New York YorkI WI I told you OU I want any bOOks lis said Mrs and I 1 dont ad M if ir that dont satisfy you Ill say roy right here that I cant can t afford none I IlI IlaM raid laM lI d Stop said Eliph Ell ph Hewlitt let me ue I guess you Qu paid 25 for it maybe ro O but Id say that was too much flUCh would be about t ht fo a hat like that Mrs Billup looked at the hat and folded foide her ann anis but sh sald nothing She had paid pal Florilla Casey 5 j for the theat hat at and an had been bemm feeling that she had hadJ J paid ald kl ton much but as she looked at Vie lIC lat it now ii It suddenly dawned on her that she he e had a Sho She smiled slight l ly This book bo OOk Encyclopedia of Kno and nd Compendium of Liter Literature Science and Art said aId Eliph quickly which I an am selling for lor the small sum Ium sum of or I 1 dont want no books interposed rs Qu i t want wanto No o maat maam said I Ionly only going g to leil ell YO about the Ute I made lade fa cr Cf m my wives wins winsen wea en I was yas wasL i 1 ft r 1 wives wipes s exclaimed Mr Mis h I Bump Billup Dont you try to fool me w with ith i any ally nonsense about you ever having I w wives Yes maam said ld Eliph Hewlitt no more mort no less tI tl beh the custom of the thc country in I Iw w h I was as you OU can see by looking I on page of this work which I am selling sellin giving among other things thins all the tile old customs of the th strange countries of the tile world together with tho the flora and fauna of all continents as well as I the Ule mysteries of at the depths of the Uie sea I And Anol a terrible time I had with them wives too the women of Timbuctoo being by nature easy to an anger anger anger ger Was Il you ever in Timbuctoo said Mrs Irs Billup I dont believe there is such a place Its in Africa explained Eliph Hewlitt and this book on my knee Ime tells all about it as well as useful in information information formation n on Oil one thousand and one I other subjects comprising all the time wis wisdom wisdom wisdom dom known to man maim a most invaluable volume as you may know when I tell I you ou that the tilE Bible and Ency Encyclopedia Enc Encyclopedia of Knowledge and 1 Compendium of Literature Science and mid Art were the tho only two books I took with me Ule when I went to be professor of uni universal universal versal er J knowledge at the university at Timbuctoo This one book hook was as all I needed for it contains all what in It worth knowing But I made my Thy error eiTor when I began be n to teach them poor benighted savages religion I be began began began gan at the wrong season I dont set see what difference the sea season season season son would make said Mrs Irs Billup BlImp I began along during Lent said sai Eliph Hewlitt and I had taken board and nd lodging with a man that had ten wives and I told the ladies they the had hat ought to give up something but they the the kind that would give up UI an anything n thing thin they the cared car d for I argued hard but the only tiling thing they would give up was their husband They thought less of him than of anything they had so they gave him up and when women unite unit to give gio ui one man about nIl all that man can do dois dois dois is to desert that family and amid go and look ij another that sot gut the giving up habit so 80 he went My h mistake e was in telling them about Kaster Easter You see I had told them about the way ladies all got new hats at Easter and how the children had fancy colored eggs on that day and they sort of took to the Idea although they rightly understand it They was as as simple as children them wives was and they would ask me mc If it all aIt women where I came from had new hats at Easter and did their husbands have havo to give them new hats and I said saidI I guessed the ladies ladles got hats if they the wanted them and they always wanted them so they always got them And at that that whole lot of dark brown wives gave up their husbands and clung to us They Tle took to the Easter E ster hat lint idea and liked it and said they would have Easter right there In Tim with hats and colored eggs That was all aU they was able to under understand stand tand of the that I was trying to teach them new hats and colored eggs at Easter They go any further Into it They said they liked that part so well wen they would stick sUck right to that part and that I 1 mind the rest They had a way of o saying it that was part talk and part war club exer exercises exercises I I that made me think they meant m ant It So I began to make hats You make the hats did you I sai salol salI l Mrs Billup I said Hewlitt I r had 10 to Nobody In Timbuctoo had ever seen seCIl a ladys hat bat and them wives in the habit of o working so 1 I had Imad to do d it I had a busy bus time timp I 1 trimmed morning and hunt hunter huntr er r cassowary eggs every afternoon the cassowary being the only bird in them parts that eggs could be sot got ot from fit to cat eat and a nd thorn them wives insisted that all al althe the children n I had h d inherited from their re r recent ent nt husband should have n a dozen eggs egg apiece That made two hundred and dozen do I had to go out ut them and into int th desert to get eggs when I had theta them all aU gathered and I piled plied up it t made a pile as big bi as this 1 ii I 1 I hR I H HI I I 4 1 I I i t I C N II I ea c cV V a I i 4 k 1 U It I IU J I c D DI 6 I rS STUDIED DIED R cJ I tN PARIS 1 I house I I was glad slad when I got ot them dozen hats all aU trimmed and them th m eggs all aU colored I can tell you I should think you Would uld have h ve vebe been benl be n exclaimed Mrs Billup said Eliph Hewlit and I 1 get it all aU done until the night before Easter I 1 went to bed early that night and amI it made me proud to t l see e ethem them hats all aU in a S row ready for my wives to wear the next morning There was vas no two off of them alike and all aU decorated with birds of o paradise paradis and tropical flowers and cali call calico calico co and buckles I had made ma e oit of ol tin cans I was as proud hut b ut tired You well might be Mrs Billup assured as assured assured him And that night said Eliph Hew Hewlitt He litt the house burned down ow and art every hat was WitS b Not a n hat was is there I left for any my om of those wives of ot mine mineto to wear I the next day but they took it 1 real kindly t They hey said It mat matt p Vr ter that I could make some and that they would postpone Easter one week for my special benefit Some wo women women women men would have cried and fretted to lose loc their Easter hats that way wa but they t They just said Put Tut Ens Easter Easter Enster ter off ot a week and make some more m re hats and see S e that you are quick about it it So I started in and made another lot How did they look asked Mrs Irs Billup Lovely said sall Eliph Euph Hewlitt They were all aU big hats like that one you ou have although not so artistic and I they were the only hats in Timbuctoo so the other women wom n were awfully Jeal dua dus us My wives were awfully pleased I 1 was glad to see how pleased they the were but I was sorry enough for it afterward Did it t make trouble with the other eLlioT women asked Billup l 4 oma said sahl EUph Eliph not I that but my wives liked hiked Easter so well that they told tord me they were going to t thay have hay it every Sunday and md that until further notice I would have twenty five new Easter hats ready every Sun Stin Sunday day morning It a proper life Ufo I for a university professor but I had to do 10 it It was a strain on my riy ty health to create reate twenty five hats aud ad a d gather gathEl dozen cassowary eggs ev evry O week I should have hae broken down cown If I had this priceless volume with me m giving on page pase 60 the Guide to Health so feo that I was able to cure my myself myself self Helf when hen I felt sick and on page tho the Five Hundred Ennobling Thoughts from the Worlds Greatest Authors In cheer chel r me When depressed I got ot so sA 1 i could co d trim hats with my mJ hand hands while my eyes were fre reading the Lives of or All the World s Gr Gnat Rt Men from froni Adam dam to toI Roosevelt page va gf with the th ho dying words of ef them that is dead New dying I words added as fast Last as they die In r ii I I I fact there is known to man that is not in its pages and the price neatly bound in cloth only 5 1 down and 1 a month until paid How long tong did you have Easter every week asked ed Mrs Its seven dollars and fifty cents if you jou ou prefer the leather binding said Eliph Hewlitt And AndI I kept that Easter Easter Easter ter business up for eight years before beCore was able to get away assay That is fifty two Easters a II year and eight years anti and hats hate an nn Easter a sum sum easily reckoned by b the time use of the Rea Rca Ready Ready dy or Short Cuts in Arith Arithmetic Arithmetic Arithmetic on page 24 which gives quick methods of working all sums saving the price rice of the book in that way alone in lit less than a year the answer anwer an being b ing five thousand two hundred Mats no two alike It was many years ears before I Iwas Iwas Iwas was able to look upon an Easter hat I without tears for my m lost Jost time and to this day I cannot annot see a cassowary egg g with any pleasure A picture 1 of the cassowary bird bin Is shown hown on page nage ii 2 of this volume the other illustrations including time the steel engraving of Pres President ident Roosevelt Roo and amid the allegorical frontispiece fronti piece in iii three colors This he lie heI said handing the book is the picture of the cassowary bird And how ho did you ou ever get away awa from them tIlI m wives asked i v Mrs Irs BIHua I On page 26 we find the tIme man of or t Africa showing the th location of Tim Timbuctoo c as well as all mountains rivers Iak 5 et said Eliph Hewlitt And the way I sot got ot away was 8 that they I gave me up up one Lent just after a mis missionary missionary came who happened to have hatt havea hatta a magazine with some 1 pictures of the kind of or hats that was the style le that year It seems that hat the hats I 1 had just ju t I V made for them was s a year old in style so they gave me up and told me to go and I went That shows the difference between them savage wives and an the civilized Yes Y Pid sal Mrs frs Billup Civilized folks dont give up husbands that f easy cas e eI I thinking of that said Old Eliph Hewlitt I was thinking that if a It man had been h en furnishing a civil civilized civilized civilIzed wife with last years style hats for far Easter he bo be able ablo to go away IT S Sif if ho he wanted to after atter she got through I with him Well Vell said Mrs Irs Billup you u cant expect much macli of of poor Ignorant sava You say you ou sell eli this book for one o on dol doJ dollar dollar i ilar lar down That aint much i J Copyright 1907 by Ellis Parker But Butler Butler reX ler i h |