The psychological significance of headgear was impressed upon me one morning when I hastily snatched a toque from amah's hand, barely glanced to see when ther it approximated propriety and hurried down in order not to keep a motor ful of friends waiting. "How tired you're looking, Dear" was the immediate greeting. "Don't you think you ought to get away over Chinese New Year?" came later, and indictments of the difficult Shanghai climate followed {until when we separated to shop our several ways I was more in the {mood to purchase tonics than table linen.
I was pouring out at a little Itea that afternoon, so 1 could [not retire to bed and pall the covers over my head, but instead had to get into festive raiment and go out again, donning my most frivolous hat and attempting a jocular expression to match.
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