The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-04
Spring BOnnets.

"And how much is this sweet thino o.,
says Mrs. Gushington, taking up a crown
of fancy straw, with bush full of r;nn
currants twined about it, and a rose rose
dangling over one shoulder. "TbiS y
answers the milliner, staring vaguelv
into the crown as if she expected 10 soy
the Delphic oracles engraved there
"this is S25; no, it can't possibly he a,
low as that: well, it's mistake at that
price, it c. st $50, but you can have # at
the figure named. Did you ever 600
anything so becomingP Makes you look
ten years younger, my dear madame.n
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
sees face that is fat, fair, and forty
enshrined by circle OF fancy straw and
wreath of ruby currants.
"Doesn t-it-seem- rather-smanpr
she asks, hesitatingly.
1t IS SMALL" answers the milliner
elbow could it be fashionable if it were
anything elsep Perhaps you would like
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. GUSHING.
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 il
does her an injustice, but it is a case in
which ignorance is bliss.
"Trim my bonnet the prettiest on til.
left side," says youthful matron in a
whisper TO her mllliner, and the modiste
smiles and brings all her skill to bear in
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 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 the
minister.
"Feather upon feather and flower
upon flower" says the bonnet.
"Come out of darkness into the
light" says the minister.
'Am not lovely in this half lightP"
says the bonnet.
"Hallelujah!" chants the choir.
Hardly-knew-you!" responds
sweet-faced 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 aOiU peep under their brims to see
if it is 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 pity to cover up sleek
young heads and sun-bright hair with
coal-scuttle bonnets. A field daisy with
pair of strings should suffice
AS clay in the hands of the potter is
the average woman in the hands Other
milliner; she may have small, leek,
flower face, with pensive pink cow,
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 wickedaess, 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 a
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.-
ETchdnQe.