The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-07-22
AN ENJOYABLE slahr.
The Interesting and Charming Way Ia
Which n Woman Puts on "A Iionnet.

| Ahe interesting ana Oharming Way II
Which Woman Puts on a nonnet.
"Did you ever notice how woman
puts on a bonnetP" asked an irreveren
friend not long ago.
| MOP Then you have missed the en-
joyment of a most interesting perfor.
nance. When man dons his head
piece he merely claps the cover over
his brows, with as little consideration
as one would drop an extinguisher over
a candle. He simply puts it on, and
that is all there is in the operation.
Light or dark is all the same to him.
| With woman how different. When
she puts on her new bonnet poem is
created, picture is called into being,
music is brought back to earth and
the atmosphere is saturated with sweet
| sounds
He had quizzical look in his face
and there was suspicious smile about
his mouth. | wonder if he knew | had
on new bonnet?
she brings forth her handbook cher
plump arms can scarcely clasp its al
dermanic waist), sets it upon a chair
or table, removes the lid, and with a
sweet smile reaches down into the cav.
ernous interior of that box and d,aSfS
forth very tenderly little, insigniii-
cant, heterogeneous affair that courtesy
calls bonnet. To the male eye It has
neither beauty nor comeliness.n
l knew he was going to say il.
Aren't men hateful?
But wait bit, he continued reck.
lessly. t'Now she advances toward
the mirror, holding the delicate triAe
before her, after the manner in which
careful housewife carries pan full
TO the brim of hot fat Arrived Gt the
looking glass, she releases one ear of the
bonnet, and with the disengagcd hand
deity brushes her front hair. Then
her hand resumes hold of the bonnet,
and the fellow-hand in its turn pays
attention to the clustering locks On its
side of the house. Now both hands
have the bonnet in their gentle grasp.
The fair creature looks into the glass,
and remarks, apologetically, that her
hair isn't fixed. She feels that il is her
duty to exhibit that bonnet in the most
favorable manner She has no excuses /
to make for its shortcomings: it has
none. 1t is herself alone and always |
her hair, that is responsible for any |
thing short of perfection when the nup-
tial knots shall be tied under her chin
and the bonnet and herself shall be one
glory.
And still she hasn't it on her head
Fete" said |, not wholly mortified.
"Ah, no; she raises the airy nothing
aloft; her chin protrudes; her hand
she cranes her neck and
lunches her shoulders while sho adj
usts the bonnet astride her pug and
settles il down carefully upon its hair
sub-couch. 1t is now exactly MS il
should be. There is no guesswork
about it. Square, level and plump
,ould not be more precise in results.
Up goes her rounded chin; the strings
ire tied without the slightest wrinkling
# the ribbon; the ends are brushed out
With delicate straightforward; the
lows are picked out Hat and square
lot too flat nor too square and long,
lender pin is thrust remorselessiy
trough the bow, its point, naked and
Inguarded, protruding from the thither
ide-a warning TO all whom it may
oncern that no trespassers are allowed
pom the premises. San Francisco
trdniner