New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-01
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NO MORE OLD LADIES' BONNETs-"
1T looks as If the old ladies were going
out of fashion, said the woman in the low rock
ing chair a hotel piazza II took my mother
Downtown
Going out of fashion," said the woman with the
gray hair. why. bless you. they went out Of
fashion long before my hair began to get gray.
What you saying about taking your mother
downtown
You see. my mother wanted new bonnet. She
explained that the one she wearing per-
fectly good, but, she had - five years. she
believed she would like a one
Il call il actual cruelty for a to allow
her mother to wear the same bonnet five years.
interrupted the woman who was making Renais
sance collar.
It plead guilty" said the woman who trying
to tell the story about her mother. But. then.
my mother is such old lady that It seemed all
right for her TO the bonnet II be-
coming TO her and always changed It up bit
with every recurring season.
'I should think that in itself was enough to run
old age out Of fashion," protested the with
the gray hair The very idear'
Proceed with the narrative said the young
married My mother says her grand
children shall never call her grandma"
CAS- L saying" continued the with the
story to tell, Il took my mother downtown to get a
bonnet. and asked for old lady's bon
net ~
Il hope you did not allude to her as the old lady
In her presence" interrupted the woman with the
gray hair
Certainly I did. Ny mother calls herself an old
lady She Is the good. old fashioned kind-eoes to
bed early, wears nghtcaps. disikes English break
fast tea and French dressing and Welsh rarebt
and She absolutely abominates lobster. and she
knits and does patchwork and loves to mend. and
to 20 to church and to make calls. and do
things in the real good old conservative fashion,
Proceed about the bonnet, persisted the young
married woman
The bonnet Why. there Is not such thing
old lady's bonnet In New-York. The clerk
said there never was call for an old Iadys bonnet
any more. and she tried put one with agrettes
and black illusion chous my mothers dear old
white head and my mother would not have il We
went to about a dozen, shops before We found
that it was old adys bonnet and | told
manding what had gone out of fashion. and that
she must get in lne-catch up with the procession
as 1t were-get younger, so that she would NJ the
Well said the hostess Il challenge you 10
find old lady in our Thursday Afternoon Club
The women having the whiteat the gay
federations and cover the front of their gowns
with club badges and sit in the front row and go
Of the previous meeting being read They
much as wonans life is worth If She IS young
to get into office. ] think its disgusting" ~,
the red checks II Gont think shall ever feel very
believe those the gods love die young, and are
therefore saved the penalty of growing old
said the a0man who Sa S0 9fsy hair Sn woman
doesn't amount 10 pms until she Is a matfon. Ine
greatest nonentity on earth is d young married
woman. Present company always excepted"
the Young pT Married @on a The most ; egreta6le
out Of date Why an old woman isn't content 10
keen In her class is more than / can see | know
woman Th Do t an6 6 IS Of aat six hoes Fa
not have care about such things when l am
:.I;fsiI can just see myself when eighty"
said the grayflaired woman Instead OF silk pet
tfc0ats shall have a fine. large, warm, long, RED
HanneI one, and then shall sit in the chimney
old lady-she is first class credential of respecta
bty She is even better than crest IN way
or a gallery of family portraits, for you can buy
the portraits, but you can't buy a beautiful old
II know a woman who has adapted old lady,"
said the business woman, who had just Joined the
How interesting"
81 never heard of such a hing
DO tell about it, chiined three all
You see she needed some sort OF hold
The fort when she was away, for she is business
like myself and so she advertised Three
grievances, and now she has some mend
and to wait for her TO home AMI sort
of keep the pot boiling
Il never heard of such a thing" said the woman
who WAS doing the Renaissance collar. Il have
heard OF adopting dogs and and children, but
never heard of adopting mother It sounds not
"If my health is only spared me-" said the busi-
ness woman. i 90 not calculate to be recog-
nized as an old lady shall be strenuous the
last The thing pray for is that shall so
live my life that when l get old there will be some
one TO take care of me because they love me. and
not because II is their duty. Old ladies' homes
family circle
on DROPPING LINES
Ever, one. oven to the child lingering pencil