Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — Ornament She Hadn’t Noticed. [ARTICLE]

Ornament She Hadn’t Noticed.

Thirty years ago we used to wear our hats for several years, and each year about November we got out our winter hat and felt Just as proud as If It was new, writes a correspondent of the Chicago American. On one occasion I was wearing a four-year-old hat that had been bandboxed for two years. I have one peculiarity and that is: “Never look ih a mirror.” So when I took a front seat at church that day I noticed people in general had on a smile that didn t wear off. I never dreamed It was anything about my hat, but when I took It off In my bedroom, there on the top was a mud dauber’s nest as big as a baseball.