Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-06

ner of the fashionably-app hats
for spring. The brim curves in and
out in graceful undulations, extending
into point in front and rolling up be
comingly at the left side. The entire
hat-crown and brim-is made of
heliotrope satin straw braid alter
mated with folds of chiffon of the same
harmonious hue. The brim under
meath is faced with the ethereal
the Bernhard hat its GROWING air of
lie chapeau artistique is superb
wreath of velvet pansies. with their
foliage. in tints rivaling natures own
exquisite colorings, from brilliant
yellow to tender violet. and deepening
into the rich crimson-purple that is
almost black
When feminine Paris sets an idol
on pedestal, the next thing is to
name a hat or a gown after the ex-
allied one Hence the Santos Dumont
hat straight from Paris is made in
the general shape of the dirigible part
of the balloon. If you stand the hat
on its side you get the most suggest
i've view of the egg-shaped outline
The shape is turban, round, with a
little droop at the back and extending
over the face in front. To carry
out the novel idea special straw
braid looking like the balloons drag
rope is used in the construction Of
the hat. The straw-braid is in two
cuit-color. the high square brim in
castor-color. By way of trimming
two ornamental-looking quilts are
thrust through the brim at the left
side. These quilts repeat the harmon
ious castor color-notes of the hat,
with an undertone of pale blue and
enlivening accents of iridescent green.
This particular hat is the creation
of one of Paris's most famous mo-
distes-Louise Pujol, who perfected
this model in straw from a handsome
fur turban in which she did apt and
graceful homage to the plucky Dumont
short time ago at the Palais de
Glace, the skating rink of Paris,
which is rendezvous of the fashion,
wealth and beauty of the French cap
ital.
The hats which we will wear in the
spring, the season of budding trees
and of flowers bursting into bloom,
are appropriately trimmed with lovely
blossoms and foliage which reproduce
the form and coloring of those in ma
lures garden. The Parisian-created
Bernhardt hat suggests a fashionable
way of disposing of the blooms on
our chapeauX-to-be. Flowers in grace
full wreath-effects are seen on many
of the new hats Sometimes the floral
wreath encirc1es the crown, or it may
lie on the brim, or it is placed under
the brim. An artistic hat is silvery
gray satin-straw trimmed with peau
de sole ribbon in pale blue-the tint
of the summer sky-has the brim en-
wreathed with white velvet edelweisS,
the fashionable flower of Paris. For
the maiden partial to picturesque eff
fects is a shape of decorative aspect.
of cream straw with a brim that turns
up in oddly artistic curves; the latter
is encircled with a wreath of large
black velvet ribbon. Fancy a pretty
face peeping out beneath this pic
turesque frame. A pale blue Milan
straw has the very edge of the brim
garlanded with the shy little forget
me-nots with their dainty green fol
iage.
Roses are the queen of the spring
millinery garden as they are of ma
lures. In wreaths they are particu,
larry graceful. One of the artistic
fiat hats-there is not even sus.
picion of a crown-has the tip entire
ly covered with folded white chiffon
There is an underbrim of Tuscan
straw wreathed with tea roses, Their
petals exquisitely shaded in creamy
tints delicately flushed with pink
From the brim at the left front and
side are carried across the crown two
broad bands of pale green peau dc
sole ribbon. each finishing on top OF
the hat at the back with loop and
end. The brim is pierced at the side
where it turns gracefully up, with q
pin, the head of which is formed of g
large baroque pearl. The hat is g
charming springlike hues of yellow
| and green.