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Show THOUGHT IT WAS HUBBY'S HAT. Wife's Hasty Action the Cause of Much Tribulation. Charles Illoomlngdale, tho novelist, was relating some of the pleasant green room gossip foi which he Is renowned. re-nowned. "There Is one actor," he said, "whoso wlfo has a mania for making waste baskets out of silk hats It Is Impossible for this man ever to have a second best tile a tile for stormy da) s and traveling for no sooner does ho bring a new one home thnn his wife turns the old one into a dalnt) waste basket confection with a pale Idue lining lin-ing and baby ribbon rosettes. "The lad) came downstairs one-morning one-morning rather early Hor husband still slept As she passed through the hall she perceived on tho tahlo n very shabby hat, whllo on tho rsck a hat brilliant and handsome hung "'Aha!' she said, 'lames has bought it new tile "Well, it was time. I'll confiscate this shabb) old thing ' "And with It sho retired to her sewing sew-ing room. It was tho work of a moment mo-ment thcio to snip off the biim, tear out tho shabb) white lining and Insert a new lavender one, tack on two lavender laven-der loops for hnndles, and "nut loud, hurried, Rcuffllng noises were now to bo heard downstairs, and n maid hastened In, breathless, vexed. "'Oh, madam,' sho said, 'the piano tuner Is In a dreadful temper Ho says ho can't find his silk hat no-vvheres no-vvheres And he left it In the hall ho says.' " |