The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-30
TRYING ON A NEW BONNET.
Young Girls Difficult to Please But
the Widows the Hardest.


the Widows the Hardest
From me Nc,0 York Giaphrc.
A lady who has passion for mirrors and
prefers to buy those that have some history
attached to them bought not long since at
the sale of fashionable miliner's stock and
fixtures a long looking glass, which was
sold at a sacrtice-"juSt to have IA glass be
fore which ma ny women have paraded
their vanity she said to the retiring mill
nor, and she added, 81 will value my acqui-
sition doubly if you Will tell me something
of the ways of trying on habitual to our
customers of the high social set"
"Ah, yes, many sweet and beautiful wo-
men have stood before that glass, and many
are beautiful and sweet in society, but not
so sweet to us shop people You can rcadily
believe that ladies show "A good deal of their
true natures in the process of trying on
either bOnnetS or gowns. Some are very
hard to please, but find tho fault in them
selves and not always in our creations.
Others are not only very easy to please, but
really amusing in their re lance on their
own beauty, seeming to think that they
look well i'll everything, and then again
there are some ladies who would make a
milliner's fortune as 'tryers on for they
have faces that do look we'll in every kind
of bonnet nearly, but these by some strange
lack of vanity do not seem to recognize
their own gift of beauty. 1t is true that
the hOmlest ladies among my customers
are the hardest to please, and often arc
those who select bonnets or hats of the most
trying styles. | sometimes think that every
mirror hanging in the milliner's or mods te's
rooms ought to have that line, To see our
selves as others see U.S., inscribed in big
letters on the frame
"Young girls find it more difficult to
please themselves in their school hats than
in their dress hats even. You would never
dream how particular they are, how they
will stand before the glass aud how many
shapes they will try ON before they decide
on some inexpensive straw or felt, return
ing at last most likely to the one first picked
out.
Ladies' are hard TO suit in their wedding
travelling hats, and ii is not unusual for a
bride-elect to bring her tance to help her
choose such "a hat Then we do have a
time-the glass and l. Every hat in the
shop is likely to be tried on. not with the
slightest expectation of taking one of those,
but just for the cOquetry of the thing and
the compliments elected. But the hardest
women to please are widows just tightening
their mourning. To them nothing seems
just right.
"Signs of widowhood are chung to tenac-
iously, but the hat must express a certain
sentiment of hope; the dawn of happier
days must softly announce itself in the i'm
portant change from somber crepe to sim
pie black, and yet the bonnet must bear
marks of widowhood quite distinct from
the moderate mourning for paternal, sis
terly or parental loss
1t is very rich discrimination that has
to be made, and the becoming widows
ruche is rarely discarded so long as black is
retained at all Yes" continued the astute
milliner, ''some very handsome widows
have spent long hours before that glass,
and it is amazing with what enjoyment
they will try ON colored bonuets behind the
screen, though they have no intention of
wearing colors, and when they put on their
black capotes again their eyelids will droop
and their faces wear an expression of pas
sive sorrow that apotheosizes the mourning
bonnet