The morning call., 1890-05-06

on soft fabrics and ribbons of every color.
There were faces framed in wreaths of
fine flowers that we're nothing more than
head-dresses and faces looking out from
under great shadow boxes of hats project
ing far over the foreheads. There were
toques with open crowns and having all the
advantages claimed for Sam Wellers hat In
the natter Of ventilation, and there Were
big Maud Muller hats and broad-brimmed
Nandykes, Gainsb0roughs and Rubens.
There were low-crowned hats with wells
floating from one side such as our
grandmothers would have looked on with
appreciation and there were high-crowned
English walking hats with trimmings of
plaided ribbons and we'll calculated to hide
curl papers when girl wishes to go for
walk before she makes her toilet for after
noon. Make note ont la Captain Cutie.
You can't abolish the high hat that comes
down to the eyebrows as long as sea breeZes
are damp and hair in summer wont stay in
curl. There were Spanish hats in peoples
ard Southern wallfiowers, ana little bon
nets with strings of narrow velvet ribbon
in the back and frosted. gauzy-winged but
terfiies dipping their beaks into velvet
flowers. There were hats with lace brlms
and velvet crowns and hats with wide brims
in front and no brims behind. There were
bonnets in gold arabesque dotted with mock
| jewels, and bOnnets edged with fringes of
jet pendants and bonnets that were twists
of tri-colored ribbons.
From Fifteenth street to Twenty-third /
saw nothing but black and red and black
and gold. One might have thought ones
self in CadiZ or Seville with Spanish tur-
bans on every side and the piquant Spanish
toredor. Above Twenty-third street in met
oyal-faced brunettes in the yellow cream Of
Tuscany and tall blondes in mauve and pnr-
pie and one delightful br0wn-haired girl in
gray hat faced with violet velvet and trim
med with big orchid flowers. When had
passed Thirtieth street began to encounter
light blue, and sometimes pearl. The gray
eyed blondss were wearing that simmer
ing silver that has no name, while the
blondes with dark eyes and the rare vel
syety black eyes, that remind one of pansies,
had on heliotrope or lilac or lilac and white.
A tall dark woman, whose cheeks were
flushed with exercise, wore a hat
Of pea green gauze, with a wreath
of large velvet roses In old pink. A
seventeen-year-old wore a Tam O'Shanter
in rich peach color with a white
and silver tassel. There was a good deal of
Jacquemnot red and copper and fawn COM
bined with rust color and plaids of red and
amber, apricot and brown. The prettiest
woman of 80 l met and by the way three
are about that age, wore bonnet of gold
embroidered lace with brownish pink rose
fluttering its soft petals on one side and
having the thorny stem twisted about the
open crown. / stood still fifteen seconds in
the path of an idiotic little swapping terrier
wondering why the thorns didn't catch in
her hair. They did probably. The terrier
wore ribbon about its neck of mignonette
green. To the ribbon was hooked gold
chain. To the chain was attached girl.
The girl wore a golden brown gauZe hat
without any crown, and with long sprays of
large lowered mignonette lying across her
hair