The Jersey City news., 1903-07-22
MANNlSH Girl
OUT OF DATE
Sunbonnst Maiden Has
Taken Her Place and
Reigns Supreme.
aE LATEST MODELS
cma Plain Useful Suits in
Tweed and cheviot
Seen At the Sea-
side.


The ssmannish" girl has had her day.
For some seasons past she's held fullest
sway and the mans furnisher has
grown richer and richer with the prices
she's paid for her toggery. But her day
is done and the haberdasher is perhaps
her sole mourner. For she's been de-
throned by one a thousand times win
somer and dearer. We mean the Sun
bonnet Girl, says. ~The Sunshine Bulle-
tim
With the early days of spring she
first dawned on our dazzled vision-look
ing wonderfully demure, but soon making
clear her intent to invade the very dear
est haunts of her late rival. No piazzas
or lawns could place bounds upon her.
OF the tennis courts and golf links, too.
she calmly took possession. And though
we never fail to know her by her crown
of couquest--that mysterious confection
Of muslin and lace that she terms her
Phyllis sunbonnet.5
For the sunbonnet girl, be it under
stood, has complexion. and spares no
pains to preserve it. That, of course,
was the primitive purpose Of the sunbon-
nei--even back In the unaesthetic days
before featherbone frames were invented.
Years ago every Phyllis wore sunbon-
nets. not things of beauty like those of
today, all ribbons and ruffles and heart
entangling frills of lace but of stout,
honest calico construction, irreverently
styled the poke If to keep beauty un-
der an eclipse was it's mission, it certain
ly performed it-almost too we'll, we
sometimes thought Nobody minded very
much when it finally was laughed off
the stage and bundled off to the attic on
the breezy entrance of that strenuous
young creature. the athletic girl.
Then followed an intefregnum. We
can call it nothing else, for the athletic
girl, good fellow as she was-jolly as
we found her to chum and to golf with
was never queen of our hearts. How
could she be, with her muscular arms
ruthlessly laid bare to the elbow, her
cheeks kissed to lively red by the over
ardent sun !? Still, few of us We're brave
enough to hazard a protest when she
courted Jolly coat of tam and proudly
boasted of her freckles. Thus each sea-
son she waxed more and more reckless.
The sunbonnet girl shudders at the rec
election She, too, feels quite at home
on the golf links, and can vie with any
man in her feats of aquatic daring. But
through all these ordeals she passes un-
scathed, serene in her nhtive girlish
grace and Phyllis featherbone sun
bonnet.
If she's skilled with her needle she
covers it herself-and here we sit and
marvel at her cleverness. With deft
touch here and twist there she lays
on her airy frills. Such wonderful puff
ings and shirrings snrely were never
xsen. Then spray ofArosebuds at a
sinsos5e angle and finally two dainty
streamers, which she ties or leaves to
nutter at the side, according to her mood
pr pleasure.
For the tramp over the links or for
long, lazy hours on the sand, the ''Phyl- |
lis takes another and hardly less seduc-
tive form. All white, Of stuff called
Eimity, she tells me, and so fashioned
that the cover can be taken on and off at
Will. It may even get drenched with
water and mud-to the utter undoing of
the luckless fellow who let her get
caught in the rain--and the very next
day it will reappear, erisper, more be-
quilting than ever.
Such bonnet as this s'goes," so I'm
told, with any gown-any type of face.
A fitting frame to the pensiye brow, it's
an even more dangerous background to |
saucy, dark eyes and piquantly tilted |
nose. And SO easy to make becoming
No ma atter how the hair may be ..done,'
i nestles down easily npon it. It looks
Sell even on poor Mary Jane, sand you