Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-15

tipped with the color of the velvet upon
the hat.
We saw the Countess Castellane shop
ping in the Palais Royal few days ago.
Very matronly the little lady looks with
her grea, wraps, such as very young
married women love to wear in Paris,
and her little dark face peeping out
from under one of the wide brims.
The Countess was selecting a Marie
Antionette of brOad-brimmed felt. This
IS a style different from the full velvet
gowns. 1t is large and stands out quite
stiff around the head. The upper side
of the brim is trimmed with many
rows of the fine satin ribbon. The one
selected by the Countess las three r.
regular rows upon it; but the young
lady who was with her, said to be a
Miss Richardson. of New York. chose
the one that had the ribbon running
down to the edge of the brim in ragged
pathways. Quite pretty we thought it..
THE OX-BLOODS.
The color of the autumn hats is OK
blood red This IS a shade quite DIFF
ferent from what you would imagine.
1t is orange to most eyes and brick
color to others. Beautiful ostrich feath-
ers of black come tipped with the OK
blood. They glow like sparks from the
inner of a furnace when thel lights
around are out. A small hat Of shirred
velvet Of this shade. with br.m Of black
velvet and two outstanding ostrich tips,
costs $40 in American money, and | was
going to say 200 francs in French money
Oh,
much for any hat, hardly for a whole
gown, so it is better to say that the
price is $40 in American money.
The hats at the Palias Royal and
other shops look quite too delicate to
to be handled, and the French are the
only nation | think, that will not per
nit you to finger their goods. Each hat
IS inclosed in a case, and if you wish to-
actually buy a saleswOman takes the
chapeau from the glass case and sets
it crafully upon your head If the
colors are frail she uses bit Of white
tissue papers to keep her hands from
touching It. You look al the hat, adj
mire or condemn it, and it is taken OIL.
Not a finger mark is visible.
Consequently in Paris the buying oil
hat ready made in store gives a
woman degree of prestige. She is a
woman of wealth and taste and for
tunate. too. In America how different
Shopworn hats are so frequent that a
lady after picking out a bonnet to suit
herself orders it duplicated in fresh
materials.
Turquoise blue is much used. 1t IS a
deep. lovely shade, becoming TO the red
dish-brown blonde who is 50 much found
now a days among the natural tinted
girls. This turquoise blue is used Tor
crown coverings Five yards, the sales
woman Informed me- were piled and
folded away upon the crown Of one very
large. beautiful hat. I doubted her. and
she cut a stitch at the side and pulled
out a fold before my astonished eyes.
Measured. this fold contained yard OF
turquoise velvet half a yard wide.
The brim that goes with the turquoise
is white. There is no use telling that
white hats are not worn for the street.
They greet you everywhere, like little
snowbirds waiting for the first flakes.
In front OF the turquoise and white
hat is a rhinestone ornament precisely
tAe shape of a crown. /. is four inches
broad. filed with tiny stones. supplied
with a beautiful open work pattern. and
is as picturesque a thing as you would
want to see.
In Paris hats and capes are the two
most elaborate things Of the toilet. This