be properly grateful for an' expensive gift one doesn't at all want, specially when one could have invested the money involved to much better advantage—that is a task for the super-woman," declared Dr. Anne Walter Fearn as she twirled one of Bankston's exclusive creations upon a disdainful forefinger. " Yes, since you ask me, I could ha aged very nicely without this bit of felt, even if it was fitted on my head by the Genius himself. It was an amusing experience " to be closely. scrutinized by Bankston, then to have him say: 'Yes, this is what you need,' and to have.him cut and twist and pin a hat into being right then and here. But really it isn't present to me, just a gift which some one else Wanted me to wear.
You know just how much I love hats!"
"No, I'm not entirely emancipated from thralldom to hats yet. There seem to be some occasions, specially necessary to a hat or else outrage the conventions in their tenderest feclings, and I yield. But to high heels—never If any one to give me high French-heeled slippers for Christmas I simply couldn't even make a pretence of polite appreciation. 1 believe that much of my ill health was duo to the strain they involved and now I'm as strong an advocate of low heels as any health-shoe faddist could wish.
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