Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
Spring Bonnets.

And how much il this sweet thingP"
says Mrs. Gushington, taking up q crown
of fancy straw, with bush full of ripe
currants twined about it, and q rose
dangling over one shoulder. "This. "
answers the milliner, staring vaguely
into the crown as If she expected to see
the Delphic oracles engraved there,
$. this is $25; no, it can't possibly be as
low as thai: we'll, it's mistake at that
price, it c, st $50, but you can have it at
the figure named. Did you ever see
anything, so becoming? Makes you look
ten years younger, my dear madame"
Mrs. Gushington inspected the back of
her head with hand-glass. 1t does
look young, decidedly youthful. Then
she turns blandly to the large mirror and
enshrined by a circle of fancy straw and
wreath of ruby currsnts.
'Doesn't-it-seem- misunderstanding
she asks, hesitatingly. {tE
SIT Is small" answers the milliner.
sc How. could it be fashionable if it were
anything eIseP Perhaps you would like q
last winters scoop or sun hat? Mrs.
Col. Brown wants this sent up to-day to
match her new ruby silk. ! shall charge
her $35 for it."
That settles it. The bonnet is bought
and sent home, and when Mrs. Cushing
ton walks out those who see the back of
the bonnet think she is miss of sixteen,
and those who see its face know she will
not miss sixty. So in either event it
does her an injustice, but it is case in
which ignorance is bliss.
'tTrim my bonnet the prettiest on the
left side,'' says a youthful matron in a
whisper TO her m{liner, and the modiste
smiles and brings all her skill to bear in
a eliminating bow or arrangement OF
flowers at that point. She knows that
it is to be worn Sunday. and that is the
congregation side."
The new bonnet will have a great deal
to answer for through its human repre-
sentative; the woman who goes to
church with one on has no idea of being
stumbling block in the way to Heaven,
but the bonnet is larger and more i'm
portant than the church, the steeple,
and all the people. "Line upon line
and precept upon precept," says tie
minister. at5 ia. -seg4t ahL
"Feather upon feather and flower
upon flower" says the bonnet.
"Come out of darkness into the
light" says the minister. ~ n.t.
.'Am not lovely in this half light?"
says the bonnet.
:" Hallelujah!" chants the choir.
"Hardly-knew-you!" responds a
sweetrfaced singer, as she peers under
her friends new bonnet. The dainty
scoops that frame arch Puritan faces
and sweet, kissable lips are the wicked
est bonnets of all; seventy years old
without, and seventeen within, what
trouble they give to gallant young men
who aUiU peep under their brims to see
if it il their great-grandmother, in which
case they plunge madly down a side
street. or the Hebe of their youthful
dreams,
Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied young mans heart within.
1t is forever a pity to cover up sleek
young heads and sun-bright hair with
coal-scuttle bonnets. A field daisy with
q pair of strings should suffice.
As clay in the hands of the potter is
the average woman in the hands of her
milliner; she may have a small, meek,
flower face, with pensive pink color,
and the autocrat of bonnets places q
leghorn combination on her head, which
has a cardinal lining, three old-gold
feathers, and bunch of peoples and
ties yard long and nine inches wide;
overtopped by this structure, the little
woman is lost to sight; she is all bonnet,
and gold, and crimson shadows; she is
the antithesis of Mrs. Gushington, but
the same milliner created them both.
And grave, somber Mrs. Amity, who
spends her life prowling about the pur-
lieus of wickedsess, rescuing poor chill
dren from the slums, is provided with a
new hat that tips down over one. ear,
and flares back off the face, and has q
rakish, jaunty, dissipated air totally at
variance with the good woman's dis
position, and of carnal nature that
gets her into all sorts of difficulties,
which she lays to the total depravity of
human nature instead of bonnets.-