Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-01-21
q Budget of Breezy Gossip Re-
lating Exclusively to the
Fair Sex.
Accompanied by Some Notes on the
Ever Changing Styles in Fcmi-
nine Attire.

] ct us consider the first new millin-
cry of 1853. How beautiful are tho
bonnets! How lovely are the hats !
Not alone are they so to feminine eyes,
but the most critical and cynical of men
must see that the shapes are admirable
in an artistic sense. Take for examples
the two bonnets in the picture here.
They are of unexaggerated and very
becoming shapes The one at the right
is covered with myrtle-green velvet,
shot with ruby. A fold of ruby velvet
rests upon the hair upon the left side
only, while in the center of the front
there are some pretty upright bows of
MORE ribbon, shot with green and red
to correspond with the colors of the
velvet. Among these is o lovely feather
aigrette made in close imitation of a
purple heartsease. The strings are of
shot MORE, and the back of the bonnes
is cut up deeply to reveal the hair of
the wearer. Nothing is pretter in q
comely woman than the back of her
head neatly adorned with her own hair,
and no bonnet ought ever to cover it.
Eut all women are not satisfied w tn
inconspicuous millinery. The writer
has just returned from New York.
While there n gentleman from this city
said to her: 81 wish to take to my wife
at home a nice, ash;onable bonnet. /
guess I'll look about me at the theater
and see what's worm" His mind must
have been a seething maelstrom of in
press:ons the next morning, for never
was there a season when such n variety
of hcadgear was worn by those who are
bound to be picturesque. About the
best of the SNOWY hats that he saw were
the two pictures in the second illustra-
ton. One there displayed is ute a
novel hat, with crown of cream plush,
ornamented with appliques of jet, and
made with brim of black velvet. This
is trimmed at the side with full bows
OF moire ribbon. The other is q most
artistic shape, with n soft crown, COW
cred with drawn brown velvet, and q
gathered brim, which can be easily bent
about to suit the face of the wearer.
This hat is trimmed on the left side
with droop,ng p.umcs of shaded ostrich
feathers. The crown is also trimmed
with fan shaped embroidery of gold
upon a silk ground.
In that audience sat Mrs Ferry
I Wall, the new-madc bride of the King
of the udes. the proud wearer of in
sane trousers and non comros mentis
coats. The lady is graceful and pretty.
Her hat matched her dress, which was
a combination of sage green and prim-
rose yellow, not very effect We, but
probably expensive. There was sort
of family resemblance in her hat and
face to lot of hats and faces in the
neighborhood.
Some of the girls in that assemblago
wore the most remarkable head dresses
ever let loose on an astonishcd world.
One had black We vet Tam O'Shantcr
of enormous proport ons, with few
stiff feathers stuck in the Drim. For
all the world it looked like gigantic
ink-stand, with the quilts in ready for
work. Her sister was girl with lots
of hair, which she wore in two huge
rolls at the sidn, and it looked like one
of the little princes climbing the stair
in the Tower of London to the bntt of
Malmsey in which the poor dear was
put to eternal soak and sack. On top
of this hair was Kate Grecnaway poke
of beaver, calculated to make any man
shy his castor into tho ring and pro-