Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — What She Wanted. [ARTICLE]

What She Wanted.

“I, for one, am in favor of the bin to abolish the use of aigrettes and paradise plumes in 'ladies’ hats. I favor this bill not only for moral reasons, but for financial ones as well." The speaker was Col. Lionel C. Harris, the well-known ornithologist of Memphis. He resumed: "The cost of these aigrettes and paradise plumes is a dreadful thing for any htfsband to conptemplate. 'I saw yesterday a Virot hat covered with aigrettes that was ticketed |2OO. And that reminds me—“A lady novelist wrote to a publisher last month: “ ‘Please send a check In advance of royalties. I want to buy a new hat for a June wedding.’ “The accommodating publisher sent the lady a check for |SO. She asknowledged it indignantly. "T said,* she wrote, 'that I wanted a hat, not a veil.’ ”