Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-05
A new TRADE.
Horse Milliners Will Come Into Being
With Advent Of Equine Bonnets.
Great Pride Taken in Gaudy Head Gear Seem
on City Streets.

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morse bonnet, first made its appearance
!" augusta, some time ago. there has
peen quite change ami Improvement
III 'helr looks. The first one that
came was rather q dowdy affair. made
win common straw without condi
mentS or trimmings. no gaudy plumarc
or peacock feathers with ward after
yard of summer drapcry to set this
equine headgear off at its best
NOW and tncn some horse owner with
a little artistic taste would decorate
the inverted work basket with a
few roses and garden flowers to break
the monotony and make the old SKY
scraper look a little more respectable
But gradually there got to be little
rivalry in the horse millinery line I'M
til. today, the horse bonnet is a prct-
ty nifty thing, doubled dcck.d With
fringe around the edge. bows of rib
bonS and flowers until they look like i
hot house or "A panSy bed. Some cloth
bonnetS that have appeared on the
streets are really dreams and reiiCt t
great credit upon the makers.
Some have carried the fad so far as
to study the color of the horse and Sc
lect shades that blend and harmonzc
with the animal. The fad or style is
evidently one of those sensible things
that now AMI tl"n strike a community
and stay with it ana is destined to
have a long AMI Suc' essful run. With
the advent of tie horse bonnet has
come the horse milliner. a new trade
or business that will spring up in every
fr,,.Y
of its own. and, in the near future, one
will see tn" newspapers full of an
nouncements of spring and fall open
ings ana Easter bonncts 70: horses
will he too cute for anything" The
horses will be as proud AS LuCifcr and
insist on going to church late. Long
after the singing * over. so all IN"
good church going people can Sc" and
admire their head gear.
This IS not a new idea by any means
as the custom dates back with ladies'
long before Noah beached his ark on
Mt Ararat. After the church services
are over. the horses will talk among
themselves all the way home about
what shocking bad bonnet Mr.. So
and Sos horse had on at church and
they will wonder who the millncr IS
who shows such shocking bad taste AS
10 nut red bonnet on Il white horS"
ana visa versa. But then some MILL
ucrs nave no idea of the eternal fitness
Of things anyway and then they guess
Mr.. So-and-So can't be doing much 70
Lot his horse be seen out IN the street
with that old doWdy thing on. why
they would not wear il out IN the pas
turc much more on the street; but
then some people are upstairs anyway
,nd cannot trace their lineage back as
they can to William the Corn Eurer,
and next year, when their owners 20
,broad. they are going to bring nome
for them "A real Paris bonnet. just inc
eanc as the Presidents horses wear
IN state occasions in the French CAPT.
tai. and when they get that on an 'he
other horses will turn round ana iooN
with envy when they go by.
The papers will come out ann"uiic iiiA
tho fact the Madam So-and-So mas
met returned from the Boston ana Ne"
VOL, markets with full line OF All the
Partisan novelties in horse mlii'heis
Including Milons and MacanaWs ana
.ho horse parlOrS will be open, MohhdS
"a, the greatest display OF horse h'ai
c.ar the people ever saw All eN'i"
s;vo styles. IA few sample hats ana Don
nAts for sale that have taken III s'
-, az the horse show in New YORK
ard an early call will be Appreciated