The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
THE FLOWER HATS
FALSE PREDICTION CONCERN
 ING WALKING STICKS.
Women's Feet Distinctly in the Fore ground Just Now-Advantages of Cuban Heel-How Grace and
 Comfort May Be Combined.

Some of the seasons hats are not for serious persons. no matter how pretty of face these same serious persons may be. The laws of harmony absolutely forbid a woman who thinks, for in- stance. of wearing a toque made en- tirely of white sweet peas, with a TO- sette of mingled green and pink satin perched up on one side of the brim toward the back.
 And. then, fancy a big hat all of honeysuckIe, creamy white, flushed with clinging, twining irresponsible tendrils arranged so skillfuly on the wir frame as to create the illusion in an imaginative woman that her pretty head had beeen transformed into an arbor or a trellis for the accommodat- ion of climbing flower vines.
 Another hat is a mass of white nlacs with a single ornament in the form of white gauge butterfly lowering over d tuft of lilac leaves at the back. Pretty? Of course. Charming in every sense of the word. But the wearer would seem so incongruous, so inconsistent, so lost to all idea of the divine fitness of things were she to talk seriously beneath these howery chapeaux. They are hats to friVol in. Certain rumors as to thingsc fashion abIe may be said to recur in cycles. This disappearance the blouse, the revival of the crinoline. the restoration of the patch and the coming Of pow dered hair are all predicted at inter- vaJs. but fulfillment of the prophecy tarries. Just now the walking stick is enjoying attention. and we are being gravely informed in various directions that "smart people" are carrying them. and that they are the latest mode. But enquiries and observation do not support the present gossip any more than on past OCCASIONS when similar reports have been started. One good and sufficient reason against any general adoption of them at present IS that with long skirts and no pockets oyerburdened womankind cannot un- dertake to carry anything further than she is now compelled to bear. As it is she must stick her mite of hand kerchief into the opening of her giove' must take her money in a chain purse on her wrist and if more items are necessary they must be conveyed in a bag at her side. Her position with the necessary parasol on a sunny day. her poodle to lead, and about half a yard of train to be lifted out of the dust is pathetic enough; but the addition of stick would renoef 1t comic rather ludH pllidOiS' <AAA 'AA vestigation too, of sundry famous shops devoted to sticks and umbrellas does not reveal anything specially pre- pared for feminine demands s.. The modern young man, 1t is true, is cater ed for with so much grandeur in the matter of good mountings that It Is possible some ladies may have said that they were too good for the unorna- mental sex, and should be transferred to themselves.
 Women's feet are distinctly in the foreground just now.
 It cannot be said of the summer girl that "her dainty feet. like little mice. go peeping in and out" Elegantly formed they may be, and beautifully shod, while her method of handling them may be chic to the last degree. But. as for being dainty" that Is hardly the word one would use in des- cribing the feet of the summer girl.
 The pedestrian skirt, the golf and the automobile. not to mention the bicycle. have so brought woman's feet into the foreground that she has been forced into doing that which the small boy would call stunts" to make them attractive.
 The problem lay in finding d shoe that would make the foot look small,