The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-23
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

The more one looks at the hats, the
new ones, of course, the more one is con-
WINGED that no time or locality has been
forgotten. And that just suits us, for if
there's anything on, earth which appeals
to us clear through 1t is the idea that the
cream of the fashions of all periods has
been whipped up for our qualification and
adornment. The true artist of hatdom is
indeed not to be found mapping. In adj
dition to every possible fruit of his own
original mind he draws boldly on artists
of time gone by, on famous court beau
ties and favorites of the stage. Aye, even
the s~unbonnetted maid of the woodland
is not beneath his keen attention. Gains
borough is still a patron saint and Prin-
cess Lamballe is by no means neglected,
likewise the little ~shepherdess, a la Wat
teau, who found tending sheep {on fans)
such dainty work. But there is no abject
copying; we simply help ourselves to that
part which is best adapted to our own
particular style.
Now, for one who is neither strikingly
beautiful nor painfully plain, and one
who likes just an unassuming but charm
ing, quiet little affair to rest on her
tresses. a soft effect in street heliotrope
will surely commend itself. 1t sits about
~squarely on the head, is of beautiful
satiny straw and has much soft tulle
round the low crown, all this tulle being
edged with baby ribbon in microscopically
plaided white satin and black velvet rib
bon. The brim is of modern width; a large
silk poppy (of heliotrope) is poised above
the tulle at the left. The brim has the
daintiest facing, too, being all of softly
crushed tulle with a fold of velvet round
the edge.
A big Junoesque affair is a rich, ripe
arrangement in burnt straw-you know
the luscious shade that goes to make this
effect-the gracefully dropping brim being
faced with black chiffon finely shirred.
Three black ostrich feathers are at the
left (rather toward the 'front.' and they're
caught down with a knot of black velvet
ribbon, which is drawn round the right
side in a style no end of chic. As for
the feathers, one of them mods forward,
one seems inclined to follow it, while the
third curls round under the brim in the
back.
The turban always finds somebody to
appeal to, and the one in mind has any
number of admirers. It is of white gauze
striped with black straw in clusters of
three. OF course, all this says nothing,
for the grace, the daintiness are all in
the manipulation. In truth. it IS draped
round and up at ehe left IN a most fasc,-
mating fashion. The only trouble is that
it's finished off with a poor little pigeon,
for something else would finish it off just
as attractively and the poor bird would
be much happier with her loved ones. No
wonder Lady Lurgan (of nursery rhyme
fame) felt bad about losing her turban, If
it was as well shaped as this one.
The paradise, too, despite the efforts of
the A~uduDonlsts. figures on the new mil
linery to a great extent, and many a fine
bird has parted with a still finer tail that
womankind might flaunt the same as a
part of her elaborate headgear. Indeed,
the roly-poly toque lit really is nothing
but a circular rolD and the paradise go
together. For those who ave no scruples
such a toque in a livid yellow straw, so
tnely woven that it looks like lace, with
9ack paradise floating from the left
front is certainly stunning.
The all white nat always appeals to us,
no matter if we have any use for it or
not. One magnificent thing fit for a wood
land nymph, but none too ethereal for
a garden party, is a large white straw,
all faced with shirred white chiffon. In
front of the crown there's a tremendous
amount of white chiffon fuffiness with a
splendid white ostrich plume spreading
each way behind it. Long white strings
Of the chiffon stream behind it. Really
a thing of poetic beauty, you see, in which
some fair ones would be nothing short of
an-gelic-strange how that idea of COM
pairing women to angels prevails, even
though the records only tell us of mas
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all to be blamed on mankind, however.
For one who is going a journey there's
the most delightful little straw, between
an alpine and an English walking hat in
shape, in a shade between castor and
brown. 1t is so graceful, with its simple
drapery, black and cream-striped brown
gauze, that it makes one long to be on the
wing.
How many people are aware that the
hot cross bun of Good Friday dates back
thousands of years-to the very dawn of
the human racer" writes s. P. Butler in
the April "Woman's Home Companion
discussing 'The Antiquity of Sacred
Cakes" Like many another rite or SYM
bolism which figured in the religious cere-
monies of the heather world, it was
adopted and invested with a holier mean
ing by the followers of the new faith,
Buns known by that se1f-same name were
used in the worship of the Queen of
Heaven, Ishtar, or Astarte, as early as
the days of Cecrops. founder of Athens,
1900 B. C. Some authorities date its origin
to the Middle Ages, during the prevalence
of a plague, when the church, as request
ed by numerous physicians, relaxed the
very rigid diet prescribed for it's children
on Good Friday and allowed them to eat
bread or buns. but required that they
should always be marked with the sign of
the cross. The custom is still observed in
certain parts of Italy and Spain.
Many virtues are ascribed to these
sacred cakes. AS safeguards against dis
ease and danger they were generally used
in the direct service of ancient idolatry,
and in families of the early Christian peri
cd in England, even to this day, a small
loaf of bread is annually baked on Good
Friday morning and carefully put aside
till the same anniversary eturns. 1t is not
eaten, but used as a medicine, a small
portion being grated into water and made
into a sort of ~panada, considered a sure
cure for many disorders These little
loaves were formerly u~nleavened, and bore
the mark Of the cross. Curious supersti-
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