The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-25

pleases her, be it dish Of kohl rabi or q
sunset cloud, is grand. Everything that is
in any way displeasing is terrible, terri
blev
Simple and childlike as she is in the use
Of our vocabulary, she is an authority ON
everything concerning millinery. For 40
years she kept a millinery store in New
York, and, though she has retired from
business now, she keeps in touch with ev-
erything relating to that branch of trade
abroad and in this country. She often
gives me points as to where to go to find
the finest pattern bonnets which are the
forerunners of the fashions of the follow
ing season here.
Most of our finest pattern bonnets come
from Paris, where the speciality is not only
to get good effects, but the finest and most
exquisite Of needlework also on hat or
bonnet. The Berlin designers are doing
well, but there IL difference, and can
scarcely tell where or in what 1t consists.
The Berlin hats have massed punches of
trimming and bold arrangements of color.
1t is always artistic, always becoming, but
1t lacks something that one finds in the
French production. The American made
millinery is copied from the models from
those two countries, each model and repro.
duction being varied to suit tastes and
purses. All the dealers will tell you If
they think you would be impressed by the
fact that everything they sell Is import
ed" Why, sisters mine all the navy we We
got couldn't bring over half the hats and
bonnets sold in this country each season.
Our milliners are clever and many of them
real artists, and we have factories by the
dozen where they make straw hats OF every
kind in the world except the panama
That stands alone in its stiffness and ele-
gancei one might add price, too, as the
hat alone costs from Sl5 90 S25
There isn't great deal to say yet about
! millinery, only 10 mention some general
| ideas Turn back the books of old cos
tunes, and you will find tho original of a
| beauty Of a hat l saw yesterday The
! crown was q low soft Tam o Shanter shape
| with the brim narrow and shilTed. IL was
OF very rich black velvet Directly in
| front was a doubled rosette Of velvet with
a handsome pin in form of an oval with
an emerald IN the center and diamonds
around it. From under this two black
ostrich plumes swept around Just meeting
In the back and quite covering the brim
| The hat placed above young face with
fluffy hair made real, living picture well
worth looking at.
There Is certainly clear leading TO-
ward the hats of history Mob caps in a
modified form are now being produced for
fan and winter So are what were once
called shovel nose; also poke and turban,
besides so many more that would be re-
peatlng mysen ny JeiiIng sner nair0s.
The shepherdess shape holds its popularity
In straws, and now IT 10 shown with finely
shirred satin or velvet drawn over the
brim tightly or in the dainty beaver plush
In black and brown, drab and gray.
This shepherdess shape was always IA
yorite one with the empress of France, the
unfortunate Eugenie and also Is still with
the yet handsome Duohesse dues. The
ex-empress wore one In this shape made Of
shirred Grape while she was at Shoebury-
ness, In England TO be near the young
prince imperial, who was completing his
military studies at this great school Of
gunnery. The dip In front and the grace
ful raise at the sides make this kind OF
hat very becoming 70 some. There arc
persons TO whom no othsr hat 10 really 10
sowing