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PAGE SIXTEEN
A HAT FOR ELSIE
A Modern
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Story by Elmn Ehrlich Levinger.
Elina F:nru,n 1.4,0ger, xll r00,1. roee ■.■1
HEY were on their honeymoon; usually gentle eyes.
it took only a glance at Elsie's
"Very nice hats—latest models
trim and very bridey traveling suit, big reductions," hissed the serpent.
or Joel's beaming countenance to tell
"Then just a minute," qualified El-
you that. And it was their first visit sie—and was lost.
to New York, so they spent their first
The shop was small and dingy, but
afternoon in the enchanted city by
the gaily trimmed hats contrived to
visiting the Aquarium and the Statue give it a litre of the tropics. Hats
of I.ibert•. Born New Yorkers were everywhere, small hats, big hats,
haven't time to follow the guide hats of gold and hats of silver tissue,
books so conscientiously, and the hats which Joel secretly thought
brisk gentlemen who come to New looked just like feather dusters, but
York on buying trips for their firms which the voluble little person in
generally prefer a musical comedy. black described as the "very latest
For both groups balk at being either thing."
instructed or thrilled.
"A
bargain—a
bargain!"
she
But Elsie and Joel had dreamed of crooned, replacing Elsie's modest lit-
New York all through their engage- tle turban with one of the rainbow
ment which had started back in high monstrosities. "You oughtn't to wear
school days; Elsie bad embroidered dark colors so much neither. With
her outfit and Joel had added to a your complexion you could wear any-
thrifty little sum in the bank with thing."
visions of riding down Fifth atop a
"Do you like it, Joel?" asked Elsie,
bus or feeding the animals in Central preening before the blurred mirror,
Park to make the waiting easier. Like little doubtful of the image she saw
a
so many Westerners New York, fre-
there. "It's a little gayer than I usu-
quently glimpsed on the movie screen, ally wear."
was their Mecca; they felt very touch
"You look like a Sioux Indian,"
as little traveled Bostonians used to with husbandly candour. All you
feel about a tour through England. need is war paint and a tomahawk."
And like those early travelers, they
"It's one of my 'wettest models,"
ate their first meal at their journey's protested the hunchback. "Lady, 1
end with a ''Guide Book to the City" wouldn't sell you a hat if it wasn't
spread upon the table between them. becoming. I ain't doing that kind of
"We've got to see the Metropolitan business. You look like a millionaire
Museum," decided Elsie between bites. in it, honest to God you do."
They weren't dining in a Broadway
"I guess my--toy husband isn't used
palace, by the way, but at a humble to seeing me in such bright colors,"
automat, which is just as thrilling if stumbling over the new name. "Please
you are in a mood to be thrilled, and bring me something simpler." She
. much less disastrous on the suet laid turned to Joel as the woman limped
aside to buy and furnish a bungalow toward the back of the store. "Don't
hack in Iowa. "And the Natural Sci- tease the poor thing, dear. It's not
ence Museum, too. I studied zoology right—and
t—
. .. and she takes her hats seri-
in high school."
'And the place where 1Vashington ously right. But for heaven's sake,
said good bye to his officers, and the don't buy anything here. I know it
Treasury Building, and the Public wasn't your style before we came in.
Library," added Joel. "Do you want You'll never look like Grand street,
cooca or coffee, dear?" for they had dearest. Just turn down whatever she
been married only three days and the brings and tomorrow I'll get you a
boy was quite sure the tender epithet real hat if you want one."
sounded much nicer than her own
"She's working so hard to please
name.
us, I don't want to disappoint her,"
"Cocoa—and let me see you get it." whispered back the tender-hearted El-
She trotted after him to one of the sie as the little woman returned bear-
white-tiled counters and watched ing in triumph a hat of grayish black
with all a child's lively interest as he velvet, chastely trimmed with several
released a flow of brown fluid into silvery knobs.
her heavy cup. "It's a regular adven-
"Just the thing for you with those
ture, eating and drinking like this," lovely red cheeks," she sang, pressing
confided the Small-town bride as they it shown upon Elsie's head until her
went back to their table. 'And now eyebrows were nearly hidden. "Very
what else are we going to see?"
swell—quiet but tastey. You'll enjoy
"Brooklyn Bridge and St. l'aul's wearing that hat, lady."
church yard, where all the big guns
"Yes, you'll feel like a regular
are buried and the Educational Alli- Christmas tree with all those trim-
ance," rattled oil her very new hus- mings," teased the young husband.
band. "You know Rabbi Braun back
"Don't mind him," urged Elsie as
home said we must be sure to take the little woman reddened. In her
that in."
own new happiness she was even
"And the Ghetto!" Elsie raised her more tender than was her wont in
flushed face to his, her eyes dancing her thought of others. "tic's just try-
with excitement. "We've read stories ing to be funny."
about the East Side all our lives—
"I've got to stand a lot from the
those funny ones about the marriage customers," with an air of long-suffer-
broker, you know—and the 'Melting ing patience. "Well," with sudden
Pot.' And remember those lovely briskness, "do you like the hat?"
street scenes in 'Humoresque'?" She
"How much?" asked the bride, try-
drained her cooca cup and sprang to ing to appear business like.
her feet. "Come right away," she
"Ten dollars."
begged. "Let's go and sec the East
"I'm afraid I can't pay that much."
SidkAenight."
Elsie was determined that on . their
'.
know I have to be back at first shopping jaunt her very new hus-
work on 'Monday," he warned her. band should know how practical and
"So that gives us pnly four nights in economical she was. "Shoat me some-
New York. If you'd rather take in a thing cheaper. please."
show—"
She started to take the hat front
"No. The East Sider She was her head, but the little woman in black
adorable in her stubbornness. "I've stopped her with a gesture of horror
got to get some trifles to take home that Nazimova might have envied.
to mother and the girls and your
"No cheap hat for you, lady," she
mother and father and I want to get cried, "'cause you ain't got the face
them off my mind. And we'll buy for it. You're the kind who ought to
them down there—Mamie Rosen used go around in silks and satins. Ain't
to live in New York and she always that the God's truth?" wheeling
(lid her shopping there."
around to Joel, who nodded with
"You'd better go slow on the pres- sheepish approval. "It would honestly
ents, dear," he warned her on the ride hurt env feelings to see you go out of
downtown. "I'd much rather have $10 the store without wearing that hat—
over and get you something pretty— it's so becoming to you. I'll make it
to remember your first visit to New a little cheaper."
• York by. Something swell from one
"But can you do that?" asked Elsie
of those Fifth avenue shops."
innocently, who in her small town
"That's foolish, when I've got shopping had never traded in a two-
everything I want," she assured him priced store in her life. "If it's worth
with the idiotic complacency of the ten dollars—"
newly-married. "Anyhow, I wouldn't
'If it's worth ten dollars—Why,
go to Fifth avenue to be cheated. lady, take it off and look at it close.
They just charge you double there, It's worth fifteen, but we had to put
Mamie says, account of the overhead it lower with everybody in the block
expense. But down on the East Side reducing stuff that wasn't worth noth-
you can get real bargains."
ing in the first place. That's real
Perhaps, the foolish trifles which Lyon's velvet, that hat is, and made
soon set Joel's pockets bulging were in four different pieces. And those
not very wonderful bargains, but, ornaments are worth two dollars
then, as Elsie remarked: "Folks at alone. l'ou can take 'cm off and
home TI be crazy for them just be- keep putting 'run on hats as long as
cause they came from New York." you live. (A groan front Joel she
11'hich showed a shrewd appreciation thought best to ignere.) And that
of human nature, for a very young velvet 'II wear you rain and shine. In
lady with a great many weighty mat- two years you can walk back through
ters 011 her mind.
that door and if God spares me that
Even more fun than shopping long and your hat ain't just as good
among the push carts, turning over as the day you bought it, I'll refund
ribbons and bright pink toilet articles your money to you." She paused for
and toys, was window-wishing. The breath, brushing the graying velvet
little shops seemed packed with such with loving fingers.
wonderful bargains that Elsie almost
But I can't afford ten dollars when
regretted her well-stocked wardrobe I've just bought a new hat. You see,"
trunk. Why hadn't she waited to naively, "I'm just married—"
purchase silk stockings and blouses
"I thought you two were married
and even furs down near Rivington for years." craftily. "Well, I can't
street for "next to nothing."
be too hard on nobody." She lowered
"They're. almost giving things her voice dramatically. "The boss
away," she sighed to Joel as she would kill 111C if he found it out, but
turned from a window of marked- he won't. He wouldn't let that hat
down suits to the millinery shop next go a cent less than ten—I'll give it to
door. "I never saw such bargains."
you, seeing you're just married and
"Get anything you need," urged the everything for eight and a half."
eery new husband, never realizing
"I really don't need it," protested
that even a woman as prudent as he Elsie, but weakly, hen eyes already
knew his Elsie to be, could lose her glinting at the thought of a reduction.
head while shopping. "Need a hat?" Now Joel knew what a shrewd shop-
"One never has too many bats?" per she was.
murmured Elsie dreamily, her eyes
"Then eight and a quarter," briskly.
roving greedily over the rather dusty "Shall I put it in a bag for you? Or
velvet models in the little window. do you want to wear it? Eight and
"Of course, these aren't my style at a quarter from
• She made the
ten."
all—"
change with expert swiftness. "Thank
"Won't you corne in, lady?" The you—and come in again soon."
voice was just as persuasive as that of
"We can't do that," answered Elsie,
the serpent in Eden, inviting Eve to taking the hat which in her heart of
taste a certain apple, a voice, which hearts she had already regulated to
might have been mistaken for the ser- wear for shopping and rainy days,
pent's, if snakes ever speak with a "because we don't live here. We're
strong Yiddish inflection. "Come in on our wedding trip." Her eyes met
and look around."
her husband's and to the two the
Elsie turned and looked down upon dingy little shop became a sudden
the pathetic figure squatting beside Paradise.
her own young slenderness. A figure
The serpent caught that look and
dressed in rusty black, with round shivered. An expression of inex-
shoulders painfully suggesting a plicable pain passed over her shrewd
hump; a head covered with tousled. little face. With one of her quick
straw-colored hair; eyes, sharp and gestures, she dived into the pocket of
shifting, yet strangely wistful in the her black sateen apron and pulled out
pale face.
one of the five-dollar hills Joel had
"Come in and look at a hat," con- given her. "You take it," she cried•
tinued the serpent. "The grandest se- thrusting it into Elsie's hand.
lection on the street."
"What do you mean?" the bride
"I don't believe I need a hat," looked down upon her, bewildered.
wavered the bride.
"I knew you wasn't married long by
"Come In, anyhow." Her voice was looking at you and the way you acted.
the epitome of hospitality. "It won't but I didn't know how short. And just
cost you nothing to look around."
on your honeymoon—seeing the world
"You said you wanted to see a Yid- together like I planned. Once I was
dish picture show," suggested the going to be
marfied, too—but some-
young husband, vaguely worried by
thing happened.' You just take that
the almost feverish gleam in Elsie's
five-dollars and put something to it
and get yourself a nice costume blouse
or something to show the folks at
home. Only don't get it around here
—.everybody on this street is a gonoph
and will charge you double 'cause
you're from the country."
"But we've got to pay for my hat,"
declared Elsie. "Even if I'll never en-
joy wearing it, but couldn't turn a
poor little thing like you down," she
added to herself.
1101, three and a quarter won't be
robbing nobody. There's a lot of
profit in them models. Not much ma-
terial—you must pay for the style."
"But the proprietor 2 -" suggested
Joel, doubtfully.
Her eyes twinkled a little. "You
kids believe everything you hear." She
grinned impudently up into his boyish
face. "The proprietor's got stores on
Avenue A and 00 111 Harlem, too, and
could give you a gross of them last
year's velvets fur a wedding present,
if you'd take 'eon. I happen to know
what I'm talking about, 'cause I'm the
boss."
al koPi Wiz
Eight Candles
A Channukah Poem.
It soon broke in twain,
asunder;
'No kingdoms arise, both distinct In
name.
tt crumbled
Eight candles were burning and glow.
The fourth faltered faintly in hazy
Ing and gleaming,
confusion,
They smouldered low and they But.
It trembled an instant, It flared and
tered high;
was dead;
They had all the semblance, they had
Judah's lustre was wetting, Its past
all the seeming
a delusion,
Of flickers of freedom—a gasp and a
To Babel us captives her children
sigh.
were led.
The one that was kindled aforemost
kept swaying,
In luminous rays to the right and the
left;
It told of our ancestor's tortuous
straying,
In wilds and In deserts of verdure be-
reft.
dwindled;
We gathered curses whenever we
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blessed.
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\Vashingion, while he resigned his po-
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