The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-04

|- to use in the manu-
facture of the wonderful imported
millinery. This is to be a mass of flow
ers such as has never yet been seen on
the hats before. The last season dis
played many flowers, but they were
mostly spread rather thar massed. So
far violets ave almost entirely over
Swallowed everything else. There are
some roses. pansies and orchids and
some double peoples. There were some
brown orchids with pink, white and yell
low dots. They were very odd, but eff
fective.
The violets are of every kind, from the
single blue one without foliage, made OF
satin, to the most wonderful colorings
and size. The Dewey is a new n of
very dark inner ~oolors, with the edges
shading to quite 3 light tint. They are
very large. almost rose shaped. The
shadings OF purple run from reddish
purple to pale blue. These are of silk
and velvet, and they have foliage as
perfect as nature. The muslin violets,
haded from white to blush purple. are
among the prettiest. The large Siberian
vioiets are single, but the petals are
crimped-N Some are pure white n
some pale violet, with masses of dark
grsen leaves. In velvet these are love-
~ beyond the power of words to tell.
Now these violets are not only to be
worn on hats, but collarettes and even
collars will be covered with them, n
one full vest front was simply of violets
sewed close to the cloth beneath. The
effect of these with the Sans Gene
Jacket of tan colored cloth was the
handsomest thing I had seen for a long,
long time.
Cunning. little chatelaine bags for the
street will have the outer side sewed
full of violets, and muffs made entirely
of them or half covered with them are
among the novelties. One muff of black
velvet had a large bunch of violets set
upon it, with many of the blossoms left
to hang loosely by their rubber stems.
More of them will be put upon dresses
for dancing after Easter, and a quite
new fad is for very swell ladies to wear
a pretty bunch fastened to the left
sleeve just above the bend of the ell
bow.
Some manufacturers have gone SO far
as to perfume these flowers with violet
odor. Tha was all that was lacking to
make them perfect. The poor natural
flowers, that nave such al unpleasant
fashion of fading and pining for their
woodland home, are out of the race en-
tirely.
There was a pattern hat in n place
where the fiat, round brim Of rough
white straw served to support a thick
wreath of double white peoples with
pink tipped edges. The crown just
showed above the wreath, and on this
was a bow of loops of narrow velvet
ribbon exactly the tint of the few green
leaves of the poppy. Had these pop
pies been the dark red ones with black
centers it would have been a heresy
to put them on a Spring hat, but these
delicate pink and white ones were just
right.
1 have no doubt about the fancy for
violets. / think they will be even a
rage, bus there will be surely a demand
for wild spring flowers, like arbutus,
hepatica and all the tiny mites of bios
SONS that are born to blush unseen
waste their sweetness on the desert
air." Artists seek for such in the wild
wood and reproduce them later for the
adornment of woman.s
The straw mats lying in astounding
piles are tinted with all the colors mag
Unable. AS a rule, the brims are rather