The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
AN ENJOYABLE SIGHT,
The Interesting and Charming Way in
Which a Woman Puts on Eannet.

The Interesting and Charming Way in
Which a Woman Puts on EAnnet.
"Did you ever notice how a woman
puts on bonnet?" asked an irreverent
friend not long ago.
mo? Then you have missed the en-
ioyment of a most interesting perfor-
nance. When a 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 a suspicious smile about
his mouth. | wonder if he knew ] had
on a new bonnet?
''She brings forth her handbook Cher
plump arms can scarcely clasp its al
dermanic waist, sets it upon chair
or table, removes the lid, and with q
sweet smile reaches down into the cav
ernous interior of that box and draws
forth very tenderly a little, insigniti-
cant, heterogeneous affair that courtesy
calls bonnet. To the male eye it has
neither beauty nor comeliness."
[ knew he was going to say it.
Aren't men hateful?
''But wait Bit" he continued, reck-
lessly. "Now she advances toward
the mirror, holding the delicate trifle
before her, after the manner in which
a careful housewife carries a pan full
to the brim of hot fat. Arrived at the
looking glass, she releases one ear of the
bonnet. and with the disengaged 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 it 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
yet?' said |, not wholly mortified.
"Ah, no; she raises the airy nothing
aloft; her chin protrudes; her hand
oscillates; she cranes her neck and
lunches her shoulders while she ad-
iusts the bonnet astride her pug and
settles it down carefully upon its hair
sub-couch. 1t is now exactly as it
should be. There is no guesswork
about it. Square, level and plump
could not be more precise in results.
Up goes her rounded chin; the strings
are tied without the slightest wrinkling
of the ribbon; the ends are brushed out
with delicate sleight-o f-hand; the
bows are picked out fiat and square
not too flat nor too square-and a long,
slender pin is thrust remorselessly
through the bow, its point, naked and
unguarded, protruding from the thither
side-a warning to all whom it may
concern that no trespassers are allowed
upon the premises. "-Sap Francisco
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