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Trimming Bonnets. 4s.. Il,
Ribbons, faces and flowers are the
materials most used for trimming the.
new bonnets. Pompons. aigrettes of
marabout, and short ostrich tips are on
many hats. but it is said feathers will
not be as much used as they were last
summer, The ribbons are narrow, va
rying from a short inch to two inches
in width; and they may be of velvet with.
satin on the wrong side,, or else otto
man repped on one side with satin OH
the opposite, or perhaps both sides, are
repped; the only brocaded ribbons are
of Iersian coloring, and those with
large balls of velvet or satin on a
repped ground. Occasionally a hand
some bonnet will be trimmed with bias
velvet OF ottoman silk ut from the
piece, but the use of ribbon is the gem
eral rule. Gold lace, white lace with
gold threads, leather-colored lace in
guipure patterns, partly Of silk and
partly kid, colored laces, each Oh a SIN
gle color or with many cashmere tints
together, and black laces of var GUS
kinds French, Spanish and guipure q
are used for the full frills that trims
many of the spring bonnets. Flowers
are punched in very thick clusters of
blossoms with the leaves massed to-
gether in most unnatural way. and
quite a feature is made of punches of
stems and thick stalks. Velvet and
silk flowers replace til muslin flowers
and satin and heavy plush are used for
the petals of dafg nasturtiums, carna-
tons asters, dahlias. chrysanthemums
and wild roses. Few large roses are
seen: the pre- erence is for smaller flow
.ers punched as half-wreaths or in one
large fiat cluster. Verbenas are thick
ly clustered, and there are raches of
geraniums that cover the entire brim of
capotes; yiolets. heliotropes, and for
get-me- nots also form the front of bon
nets that have q crown OF lace. straw.
or ottoman silk. lilacs are in great
favor not only in their own white and
pinkish- purple hues but in most unnat-
ural red yellow and green shades.
The flowers most, seen are marguerites.
syringa lilacs and thistles. Hedge
roses Of dwarfed sizes are ranged in
double wreaths Il of twenty or thirty
blossoms wi b a bunch of green leaves
at one end and at the other end areun-
blown rose-buds hanging on their long
stems. 9tei .Hfe6
The trimmings are massed in clus-
ter on the top Of the bonnet. thus CIV.
ing a high e ect to those Of the lowest
shapes The crown is often further
trimmed by doubled velvet ribbon
pinned on the lower part in two points
by shell pins, and the I, bbon then forms
long str nos: or else the ribbon is passed
twice through q buckle at the top of the:
crown, and then tied down the sides of
the bonnet. The lining of brims is most.
often plain: velvet cut in the shape of.
the br m, but there are others with folds
of piping velvet inside, or lace frills. or
q thick cluster OF flowers: newer still
are the double frills of velvet on the
edge, resting on the hair without any.
of the bonnet frame beneath them. The
ottoman and satin r bbons are most fused
for the cockscomb bows that take Their
name from HAVING notches ke those OF
the comb Of a cock cut in the ends Of
the many pieces OF which they are made.
These bows are as tightly strapped as
their many loops can be, and there are
also many of the notched ends of RIB,
bon let stiff and bristling: thus on q
CUR colored bonnet is q raspberry red
ottoman bow oil four loops of ottoman
ribbon that is two inches wide; the loops
are four inches deep, and there are also
twelve inotched lends; to- tie these to-
gether tightly is pale raspberry ribbon
an Inch wide. and of this there are also
four long loops and four notched ends.
This makes a! mammoth bow that is
perched on top of the bonnet, and to Sc
cure it the straws are ripped apart in
front OF the crown. and ends of the rib
bons are passed through the ripped
space; the effect is. odd and striking.
S milar trimmings are made with How
ers and feathers, and are commended
for, round faces. The full ruche of .fow-
ers around the brim will he more be-
coming to slender oval faces. The
red ribbons are much used
to tie. on lunches of yellow flowers, and
duller red with the dark stem-of-p pink
green shades is favorite combination
of colors. Leather laces and those
merely of leathercolor are used with
the brighter sotdat red, which is the
tamiliar Turkey red. Harper $ BazGr
A pine tree was lately cut on the
Abial Merrill lot at Topsham, Me-,
which surveyed 9. AGO feet