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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 9

Everything on the bargain counter was lovely. A table was resplendent with untrimmed hats, "absolutely sacrificed at Is," and a lady came to gaze upon the pile of treasure. Her eye caught one creation which was trimmed, and her face brightened. Here was- the bargain of her dreams, she must have thought. She saw herself in envy of her friends for Is. She removed her own hat, and tried on the bargain. The corgeous headgear exactly matched her Wr,.'and suited her complexion ; the hat smiled back <it her when she peeiod into a- mirror, and she wn.sin the seventeenth heaven of delight. She vas just groping for a shilling and signalling to an attendant, and then crashed to the drab ground of bitter disappointment; ,the shopwalker told her that the hat was. not for sale; it belonged to a lady who had removed it merely to try on something else. The hat was limply dropped upon tho table, but was not allowed to remain long in peace. Another and another of the fair came along, and each put it on with, rhapsodies,, and took it ofi almost with tears in the eyes. The husband of the owner stood not far away from the scene and enjoyed the performance hugely. Ladies' Tailors.—Thfi oldest, best, and largest firni in Australasia, Eton Gowns, and Costumes from £5 ss, Skirts from £1 10s. Nbdine and Co., 30, Wellington,-ter-race.<-ldvt.