The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-28
Field. SchIick & Co
OWLS NOW IN FAVOR.
To Be I'm Fashion Women Must
Wear the Birds on Their Hats.
ST. PAUL.

To Be In Fashion Women Must
Wear the Birds on Their Hats.
Owls are the latest trimmings" for
Women's hats. From time immemO-
rial the owl has been known as the
bird Of night, shrinking from the
glare Of sunshine and finding his
greatest comfort in dark caves and
the hollows of old trees, coming forth
only at night, but now, under fash
ions latest decree, this bird of dark
ness is in evidence on every side, and
his broad. fiat face, small eyes and
hooked beak SurmOunt fresh, rosy,
youthful faces and form by contrast
a strange frame for the female faces
they adOrn.
During last summer few ultra
fashionable women had two or three
great owl heads crushed in among
the wings and ribbons on their trav-
cling hats, and from the very oddly
of the idea the hats were striking and
stylish. Not content with heads.
fashion has now decreed that the
whole bird shall adOrn the fan and
winter sailors and toques.
In spite Of the society formed to
prevent the killing Of birds for oTna-
menting millinery, and the thousands
of signatures affixed to the numerous
petitions sent broadcast all over the
country, in which women pledge them
selves not to wear birds or feathers
of any kind on their hats, this is es-
sentially bird year and the favOrite
of all the feathered tribe is the owl.
To be strictly fashionable the head.
wings and tail of the bird must all be
used on the hat. and sometimes these
hats are very expensive. OF course 1t
depends in what part of the city you
purchase your hat. What may cost
$40, $25 or even $50 in Fifth avSnue
may be bought in Sixth avenue or
Twenty-third street for half that sum.
and when you get down as far as
Grand street a very fair imitation OF
the go article may be obtained for
less than s..
An up to date New York girl with q
limited income but an unlimited am
bition as to dress learned a little trick
the other day In regard to these same
owl hats which was well worth know
ing. Her friends. who could afford i'm
ported hats. had been wearing owl hats
all summer-heads and wings and tails
all punched wherever any space for
them could be found and though in her
heart Of hearts she thought the owl
hats very ugly she felt she must have
one or die, for one might as well La
dead as out of the fashion.
This girl started one day last week
on tour of the fashionable miIijners.
oeIeI hllheu 10 nave s swell an owl hat
as her limited purse would permit. AT
one establishment she found a hat
which suited her marked ST. 1t was
all the more swell as ii was trimmed
by man in London. If the stamp was
to be believed. Another milliner show
ed her hat with a slightly larger owl
for $40, and SO on through the garnut
or fashionable establishments until she
found owl hats which cost $40.
Now this girl is q person Of resources.
and she determined that even though
she could not pay ST or 500. much less
$40. an owl hat she must have and
would have. SO she wended her way
down town to part OF the city she
very seldom visited and where she re-
membered having seen any number Of
stuffed owls In n taXidermist's window.
1t was only a matter OF few minutes
to drive a bargain with the owner OF
the owls, and she was soon the pos
SCISSOR Of Il first-class owl. such as she
had admired on the s25 hat, for g.
The man told her he had more orders
for owls this fall than he could fill. and
he could not understand why these
usually slow selling BIRDS had come so
greatly in demand.