The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-15
 THE FIRST FALL HATS.
Boat and Torpedo shapes-Purple the
 Color of Fashion.

Color of Fashion.
 The first new hats have appeared. Early as it is, and in spite of the fact
 that there are yet several weeks of
 summer weather, milliners are bury
 preparing their models, and out-of-town
 buyers are seen by the score. It Is to
 be a season of much beauty, if one may judge fairly by those first showings and of really splendid effects in color. As might have been foreseen by any stu dent of sartorial matters, much purple will be worn, and papal tendencies have been carried to the production of hat with a crown shaped after the one worn by his holiness alone. Curious as it seems, all great events are reflected
 in dress. When King Edward assumed the crown, ermine became the rage. Now that the world has been called upon to mourn for a wise pope, the purple that was a symbol of that mourning is being made the color of
 fashion, its significance utterly lost and forgotten. The papal crown is not like 1 ly to gain any considerable number of adherents. It Is one of those novelties
 that come and go so hastily as barely to leave their mark. Yet it is here, and it seems to prove how every event of mo- ment Is searched by the designers for
 material with which. to satisfy the ceaseless cry for change. But purple in all it's richness and spiendor is here, and will be feature the season through. Its browns and greens are to be the prevalent coiors. although we shall see all kline shades and blues. Velvets of the new light sorts are to be freely used. and, when one remembers how superb is purple in the material. the fact becomes one to cause genuine pleasure. Shapes show some radical changes, hat picture styles will hold for occasions of dress, and turbans of vari- ous sorts are shown for street wear,
 while the ever-faithful sailor Is to be found among the first fall models.
 Boat and torpedo shapes make the.
 novelties in turbans, and will be worn
 in many materials and combinations.
 While not dissimilar. the torpedo Is the
 more pointed of the two. although both
 are narrow. An exceedingly handsome
 one is made with crown of cream
 colored plush and rolling brim of black chenille braid, and shows no other trim
 ming, but there are more elaborate
 styles that include the tips that are to
 be almost universal.
 One of these last combines a crown
 of cream panne with a brirn of black
 velvet, shocked, and Is finished with
 two short plunes at the back that
 droop over the hair to the neck. The black and white combinations are greatly liked and are both smart and practical, inasmuch as they can be
 worn with many gowns. Fumes or
 tips are seen upon almost every hand-
 some hat, whatever it's shape, and, in
 the case of the turbans, almost uni-
 formly droop at the back. These boat
 and torpedo shapes are very generally becoming, far more so than the wide shapes of spring, and are rendered pe-
 culiarly graceful by the dropping feath-
 CTS. All sorts of materials, or very nearly all sorts, are used. Beaver crowns with brins of fancy braid are
 shown, and velvet, plush and cloth all
 are used in various combinations. A beautiful green turban is of velvet with the brim overlaid with openwork braid,
 in which are touches of gold, and an~ other in brown is made of chiffon vel-
 vet, with the brim of the tnaterialI shirred and trimming of tips at the side. The variety offered Is almost in finite, It would seem that the design
 CTS meant to leave little excuse for what is unbecoming or out of place. Shirring and smoking both are much seen. A really elegant torpedo turban is of purple velvet, the chiffon sort, and is snocked both on crown and brirn, then finished with plumes at the back, which are in all shades of the color and are held by jeweled pins. A far sirn-
 pier model is of brown felt with the brim of velvet and shows only a pom- pon of shaded yellows at the left side. All the feathers are wonderfully beau- tiful. Not even the most ardent audo-
 donist objects to the lovely ostrich plumes, and by far the greater number of the other sorts are manufactured. What the Humane society has found it \ difficult to accomplish, the development of initiative genius has brought about. So long as effects could be obtained from natural birds only, they continued to be slaughtered sold and worn; butt when such close replicas can be manu- factured as to deceive the most astute and sold at far greater profit, why pur- sue the real creatures further why go to the cost of robbing the woods? However, let the cause be what it may, the fact remains, and all of us who have tenderness for the feathered creatures and revel in their songs may VII rest content. r. -.4, l
 Other simple hats are shown in the broad. hrimmed sailor shane and in