Flossie's New Peach-Basket Hat (1909)

Flossie ordered a new hat. The milliner brings an enormously large box wherein is the new peach-basket hat with its trimmings. While Flossie leaves the room, Bridget enters and seeing the basket and fruit thinks the huckster left the goods in the sitting room instead of the kitchen. She puts the trimmings in the hat, carries it in the kitchen, puts the trimmings in the ice chest and uses the hat for a waste-basket. Flossie's little brother makes use of the hat, so does the little sister. The father, too, gets some use out of the new hat, and it would just have been thrown out of the house had not Flossie returned in time. She gathers the trimmings and what is left of the hat, takes it to her room and then does what young ladies do generally, if they do not know what to do: she lies down and cries. In the meantime a good fairy trims the hat and when Flossie arises she is delighted to see before her the very latest Paris creation of a new peach-basket hat.

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