"How now?"
"The styles call for mannish hats. So my wife bought a mannish hat for eighteen dollars."
"Well?"
"She could have bought a man's hat for four dollars."
Women's fashions seem to be working around to the point where the voice with the smile will have to be listed among the latest spring styles.
The intrepid general was rallying her wavering female troops.
"Women," she cried, "will you give way to mannish fears?"
A muffled murmur of indecision ran through the ranks.