Crossword-Solution: KISER 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Buck, Featherloom Petticoats) finished her talk with Miss Hattie Stitch, head of Kiser & Bloch's skirt and suit department, she found herself in a rare mood.

When Kiser & Bloch had their fall and spring openings the town came ostensibly to see the new styles, but really to gaze at Hattie in a new confection, undulating up and down the department, talking with a heavy Eastern accent about this or that being “smart” or “good this year,” or having “a world of style,” and sort of trailing her toes after her to give a clinging, Grecian line, like pictures of Ethel Barrymore when she was thin.

Now a decent, hard-working, straight girl like Miss Hattie Stitch, of Kiser & Bloch's, River Falls, won't buy of her.

NICHOLAS, who understand the most complex vulgar fractions, who cipher out logarithms "just for fun," who chatter familiarly about "Kickero" and "luliuse Kiser," and can bang a piano dumb and helpless in fifteen minutes--they, I suppose, will think me frivolous and unaspiring if I beg them to lay aside their science,--which is admirable,--and let us reason together a few minutes about such unimportant themes as little points of good manners.

Next day they dined at Brother Daniel Kiser's, and stayed all night at John Brubaker's in Roanoke County.