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Show SHE TORE THE HAT. allll-Tenjpred Woman Driven t IXarpe- rate Measures. 1 The third time it was sent back home and was still too small she begin be-gin to feel discouraged. A tight bat; jis even more uncomfortable than tight Iboots and too many headaches were already due to this mistaken millinery milli-nery purchase. When she had flrs ,put the thing on she had realized it ;was too small, but the milliner, had. ;of course, told her it was because she was suffering from swelled head or that she wore her hair the wrong way, or anything but that there could be something the matter with -the hat. The woman insisted on expansion, ex-pansion, however, so the hat, according accord-ing to the milliner, was duly expanded. expand-ed. The soman wore it once, to retire re-tire with such a headiche as she had never known before. If there is more exquisite torture than a heavy hat pressing upon the head in the wrong, spot it was known only to the Spanish inquisition. The woman went to the milliner and insisted -upon further expansion, ex-pansion, and then, as the headache experience ex-perience was repeated, she went a third time. Each tin:e. no change in dhe hat beyond a slight alteration in the trimming was noticeable, and. when the third attempt was followed by a third headache the woman just sat down and wrote the milliner a note saying it was no use the hat must be made yet larger at .any cost and what- ever the trouble. A few days later the hat came back. Such a looking -piece of millinery as It was. Then may or may not have been some spite about it, but every vestige of beauty and smoothness had been removed, while the sole attempt toward rectifying recti-fying the real wrong was a kind of bay window In black velvet built out under the brim over the face, and adding to ' both the weight and the warmth of the article. Being notoriously amiable in disposition the woman viewed the wreck of her once pretty but never .comfortable hat philosophically. She even put it on and wore It he returned re-turned home, every nerve in her heaa ;throbbing and temper to match. It only needed a glance at the glass to remind her how utterly without style and unbecoming the thing was. The woman tok that hat and tore it up thoroughly, completely. She broke a fingernail doing it, but no puppy with his teeth could have accomplished -more in so short a space of time. Then she had a good cry, felt better, went downtown, and ordered another hat, at another milliner's. The next day she gathered together every ecatterea thread of . the one-time hat, and ' carefully tissue-papering and boxing box-ing them, rang for a messenger boy and sent the whole off to the milliner.- 'Yes, it's id," she said, in recounting , the experience to another woman. "Of course, I can't afford to go off on such. an expensive tear as that very often, but once in a while it does you a lot of good." The remarkable thing was that the other woman, who is all that is lamb-like, was not a bit shocked, as you might have expected. "Do you know," she said, thoughtfully, "I've often wanted to tear things up that way, but I never quite had the courage. Now that you've confessed what you've done I mean to try it for myself my-self some time, so I do." New York Sun. |