Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-07-15
HOW SHE DOES IT.
The Artistic Grace with Which u Wo-
man Puts on u Bonnet.


puts on bonnet" asked an irreyer-
eut friend Of mine not long ago. /
no? Then you have missed the .
enjoyment of 81 most interesting per- !
formance.' /
How about men and their head /
pieces!' said |, dreading what might .
follow If | encouraged the least in
suhordination IN regard to spring
honnets-~those much abused monu- /,
mcnts of women's rights and mems |.
wrongs. Besides, it is a part of my
religion TO defend spring bonnets,
anyhow.
When man dons his headpiece
he merely claps the cover over his
hrows, with as little consideration as
one would drop an extinguisher over
candle. He simply puts his hat on,
and that is all there is in the opera
ton. Light or dark is all the same
TO him
Il don't believe it, was my un-
gracious comment. Men are just
rs vain and conceited as women are,
and they try just as hard to look well,
too
''Of course they are. Different
men have different ways of putting
on hat. One man seizes his castor
by the front of the brim and slaps it
on his head with quick turn of the
wrist, in much the manner used i'll
turning tlapjack; another takes
/ hold of his hat, one hand to the fore
and the other aft, and pulls it down
with all his might, as though his plug
hat were what it looks like, clam $
head, and he were removing the
dingy nightcap from it preparatory
to eating the clam. A tmrd lays
hold of his hat by the gunwales, star
board and port, and carefully adjusts
it in an exact line with the horizon at
some favorable angle, as the case
may be. In either instance the
operation is done mechanically and
requires no looking-glass or other
adventitious aid. There is no art in
it. The act is mere matter of dull
lroutine.'
1t did no good to stare at the wall
and pretend that I was not interest
ed He was bent on saying some
thing, and he continued.
'With a woman how different
When she puts on her bonnet poem
is created, a picture is called into
being, music is brought back tc
earth and the atmosphere is saturat.
ed with sweet sounds"
He had a quizzical look on his face
and there was a suspicious smile
about his mouth. ] wonder if he
knew | had on a new bonnet?
She brings forth a band box (hel
plump arms can scarcely clasp 1t:
aldermanic waist), sets it upon :
chair or table, removes the lid, ant
with sweet smile reaches down in
to the cavernous interior of that bo,
and draws forth, very tenderly, lit
r tie, insignificant, Heterogeneous affai
e that courtesy calls bonnet. TO th'
: male eye it has neither beauty o
{ comeliness."
n knew he was going to say it
4 Aren't men hateful?
a s:But wait bit, he continued reck
g lessly. "Now she advances towar
j. the mirror, holding the delicat
e trife before, after the manner l
/. which careful housewife Cal
j. ries pan full to the bril
4 of hot fat. Arrived at the lool
: ing-glass she releases one ear Of th
e bonnet, aud with the disengage
e hand deity brushes her front hail
70 Then her hand resumes hold of th
&c bonnet, and the fellow-hand in II
or turn pays attention to the clusterin
Is locks on it's side of the house. Nov
n both hands have the bonnet in the
n gentle grasp. The fair creature loci
oil into the glass, and remarks, apo!'
A. geticaliy, that her hair isn't tlxc'
s. She feels that it is her duty to exhit
h that bonnet in the most favorah
~ manner. She has no excuses to mul
10 for its shortcomings it has none.
le is herself alone, and always her hal
m that is responsible for anything sho
81 of perfection when the nuptial kn
shall be tied under her chin, and Il
bonnet and herself shall be OF
glory
Il "And still she hasn't it on her hei
IL YETI" said 1, not wholly Modified.
y '.Ah, no; she raises the airy not
"s ing aloft; her chin protrudes; h
as hand oscilIates she cranes her ne
i and lunches her shoulders while S
adjusts the bonnet astride her p,
Il" and settles it down carefully upon
W. hair suh-couch. 1t is now exactly
ny it should be. There is no gues
'e work about it. Square, lese! al
LII plump could not be more precise
IL results. Up goes her rounded Chi
We the strings are tied without the sligl
ur est wrinkling of the ribbon the en-
we are brushed out with delicate sleig
.h- ID of hand; the bows are picked out f
'h- and square-not too fiat nor
lei suuare-and a long. slender pin
le' thrust remorselessly y through the bC
up its point, naked and unguarded, pl
al truding from the thither side wal