The Archive · 1923

By Elizabeth Pepys

Would you mind stopping for just a moment on the way to the committee meeting, Marion? O no, just a second really., I must get a new hat. I've worn this one to three consecutive committee meetings and I know every one of the members is just og tired of it as I am. you see if I buy a new one I can give this to some refugee, and it won't annoy her half as much as it does this committee.

O no, Marion, not more than five minutes at the most, and then only if some one is ahead of me. You come along and time me. Vd love to have your opinion, though I'm not the sort of person who vacillates over a choice.. No indeed. Now some girls wouldn't know what to choose this year when there are velour, velvet and fur and feathers and beaver and plain felt and ribbon and a few extras like Wool and silk and metal cloth to select from. But I knew right away. Painted velvet. Yes, it 7s the most expensive. Papa says I have'an instinct that way.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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