To the high brow friend who selected the winter hat so artist tic it has to remain in our hat-bor except when we attend lectures with h.b. friend.
Dearest Clio:
It is ever so sweet of you to offer} to take me round to the spring openings so that we can find a hat which will really suit my type. I appreciate your thoughtfulness thoroughly but really if the winter hat you selected for me expressed my personality then I would rather keep the world in ignorance of my true self. Of course conventions of politeness will force me to write you another note explaining that I am expecting my sister to send me some toppers from London so that I can't accept your kind offer, and then I shall be obliged to rush down town early and hide under the counter if I see you entering the milliner's; but though I cannot tell you this it is some slight consolation to write frankly that I do not like your taste in chapeaux.
You remember that we went from paper on "Art Influences of the Early Sung Period' straight to the milliner. I have always blame ed the Jecturer rather than you for the composition which was wished on me. What my dous soul desired was late Parisian 1921, but even a Ming creation would have been a thought more modish. I fear I am not a real lover of art, certainly not classic art, for I should rather have a style so advanced that most of Shanghai will only adopt it at the end of the summer, than to possess a specimen of the antique in headgear which would be the envy of a. collector, If it were some of my friends I should put your choice down to sheer malice, but I exonerate you from feline motives. The fault is mine because I allowed you to-conclude that because I occasionally attend art lectures I really! love art. Art may be all very well in its place, but when it comes to hate, give me STYLE.
Believe me, dear Clio, for once a.'
brutal Philistine,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.