The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-18
Hats This Spring
Some Of the Beautiful Creations
Shown at the Glass Block Mil
linery Opening. 4
Odd. Shapes Exquisitely Adorned
Are Received From the Millin-
cry Center Of the World. 81.

Horticulturists will look with envy on
the new spring hat and wonder why they
cannot raise bright blue cherries as well
as the French mifIiners.. The man who
said that nothing was impossible to nature
should amend his statement to read that
everything is possible to the French mil
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Mrs. Storke has just returned from
two months Mediterranean trip. She
spent one month in Paris shopping in the
most tfascinatin shops in the world and
she has brough home a wonderful variety
Of beautiful hats, e1nbroideries, laces,
corals, buckles and pins which were shown
this morning at the spring opening of the
millinery department of Donaldson s Glass
Block. 5ss ,.s.-.. a..EI j.,
Although the hats this year are fiat as
the proyerbial pancake, and angular in
stead of curved, one feels their charm at
once. The torpedo turban with its brim
sharply pointed in the front, the fat-iron
crown and the heart shape OF. rope braid
are some of the new things, and they look
just what their names, suggest. So 4 Z.
These odd shapes are all made up in the
softest straws in every shade, although
the petunia or fuc1sia are the most popu-
lar in the French capital. The colors
blend into each other softly and seem the
most artistic combinations possible. A
novel fea ture of the season lis the +ap-
p1iaue of flowers beneath the rolled br1ms
OF many of the hats. The spray ofvelvets
petunias or fuchsias is seWed fatty
aga inst the brim ina manner which no
mind but a French one could conceive.
The fruits which ornament 50 many OF
the hats are Of velvet which reproduces
the natural blooms far better than, satin or
silk These velvet fruits are also ap-s
pliqued under the brim and are in every
shade known to the dyer.
A Marie Antolnette Hat.
A Marie Antoinette hat is round as a
wheel and just about as fiat. The crown
is made of ribbon loops as a crown used
to be made some; thirty years ago, and
the loops extend almost to the edge OF
the brim where a knot of American
Beauty velvet relieves the dull green o.
the ribbon. One of the daintiest&of hats
is all in coral pink, which will be de-,
cidedly popular color this summer. The
braid is in the nacre shades and the br1m
is yelled with soft Neopolitan lace. Be
meath is an applique of the fruit in the
coral shades and a stunning coral orr1a
ment catches the lace just at the back.
An odd pattern Is Of Corsican grass
woven over a frame in q, loose lattice
fashion and caught in the lattice is a.
flock Of small birds The grass Is. in dull
wood browns. and the only bright color
is furnished bya touch OF red on the wing
or tail Of a bird. 4
These lattice effects are very Tnucni IN
vogue and many Of the hats are finished
iii the back with a lattice Of flowers. or
ribbons which droops over the hair. The
flower hats will be worn as much as for
merly. and they arc more beautiful in
style and shape than ever. ..s &
Evening Affairs. Nj .7s .
Mrs Storke has brought her dainty
little evening affairs just in time for
| them to be worn at the grand opera. They
are the most charming combine tons Of
pearl studded tulle and aigrettes. One Of
! them has a pearl lattice to be worn over
1 the hair while In front is chic pearl
| studded bow from which rises a white
aigrette. Another is in the Japanese
style with two pearl-studded flowers on
. a bandeaux of pearls and Jet and the
! flowers are worn cover. the ear in the
quaint japanese fashion. s.
Last year said Mrs. Storke, when
i Twas In Paris, I could only find one bon
net but this year the shops were full
/ OF them. They are smart little affairs
which will give ascharn to every woman
4 who wears them and which do not sug
Igest5 old age in any curve or line.