The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-13
PRETTY THINGS FOR EASTER
MILLINERY THAT CATCHES THE FAM
CY OF THE FAIR CHRISTIANS.
and Dspiete observation-disclosures and
EgEs-Emblems of the Church's Great
Festival Day Found tho Counters in
Abundance.

For two weeks before Easter the average
girl is not like herself. She goes around
with dreamy, PARKWAY look, and when
one speaks to her half the time she does
not answer. Is she in love? No, but she
is studying out her Easter bonnet She
stops before every milliner's window on
the street and thus soliloquizes: ''There
is a gray hat that would just match my
gray suit, and 1 believe I'd look good in
it, too. But that's a sailor and l had a
sailor last spring. That large white hat
with the pink roses on 1t Is a beauty, but
it looks too light for spring. How they are
using lace and ribbon. / should think
such long streemer would be in the way
and get awfully mussed and wrinkled."
Thus she muses. and turns her old hats
over and over in her mind, trying to re-
construct them into some similitude OF
this seasons styles.
The crown OF the spring hat is glitter
ing network of almost anything one
pleases. Sometimes it Is a few strands of
jet, or colored beads; sometimes open
straw, lace and sometimes there is 10
crown at all, ones hair coming through
the top of her hat like the farmer bows
through the large hat he wears in the hay
fed.
Flower rims are made to suit any sort
OF girl. For the sentimental maiden there
are lows of violets, for-get-me-nOts or
crushed rose leaves, the stems of these
flowers forming the crown of the hat. For
the spring girl there are buttercup hats,
hats made of lilies OF the valley and apple
blossom hats. Bright scarlet hats made of
roses and poppies. and some hats, like
waving fields of grain, are covered
with wheat and oats. The hat
which is not made of flowers is
made of lace straw or genuine lace
and surmounted by an Eiffel tower of
lace wings, loops of ribbon and flowers
standing erect. There are hats in straw
OF every shade to match spring dress
goods, and the girl who cannot find hat
to suit her is hard indeed to please.
Among the most beautiful things placed
in the market to tempt women are the
parasols. Made of satin or silk of every
shade, plain, striped, checked or figured.
they are ornamented by deep ruffles and
puts of chiffon, which will cast delicate
halo back of a girls head when she car
ries her parasol over her shoulder.
Gloves, too, are seen in pink, blue, green,
yellow. oak, and all the shades in which
dress goods are found The hosiery is
following suit and comes in all the known
tints. The girl who doesn't care for dress
IF there could be such a girl, but wants
to see Easter novelties, will find
plenty OF them in the stores. IL looks as
ii every one had brought his chickens to
market, for the windows and store coun-
tiers are covered with chickens. Some
tiny chicks and ducklings are very life
like and natural, but in other cases city
~ have lttt1a olyfolr,r,, I,
the feathers of an old hen and the result
is gruesome. Ii one is so inclined, lie can
pull off the head of some of the china
chickens and rabbits shown and have q
receptacle for fishhooks.
The usual array OF eggs, painted. dyed
and dressed in fantastic rufiles, is shown
There are no new eggs to choose from.
Easter cards and booklets abound
decorated with crosses. lilies and cherubs !;
but after years of Christmas cards, adver-
Using and thousand and one other cards,
one is rather tired OF cards. This is the
day OF the bowknot in jewelry and decora-
ton. BownOts of COLO, silver, rhinestones
rubies, pearls, enamel, diamonds and all
kinds of precious stones are shown Tor
pins. buckles and hair ornaments. Bow
knots are also used in carpet and wall
paper designs.
Jewels have stepped out of pins and
rings and now ornament vases and all
articles OF silverware. These jewels, how
ever, resemble the large, ford stage Jew
els, and are very dazzling when placed in
drinking cups and lamp shades. One point
which should not be forgotten among the
Easter fads is hair ornaments. The spring
girls hair is stuck as full of fancy pins as
pin-cushion. She wears a Grecian band
to hold back her bangs, fastens her hair
with pins OF gold, silver and tortoise shell,
and pins a little bow or flower in the
side OF her back hair, and when one talks
to her he naturally falls to counting the
number OF pins and fancy fxings she has
| in her hair.