The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-04
HATS IN COLD STORAGE.

HATS IN COLD STORAGE.
I'VE put away Panama hats for the
winter just as we do furs," said a
Broadway halter. Take Lyman j.
Cages Panama that he paid $500 for
year before last. 1t cost $3.50 before it
left the Isthmus in its rough state
He thought he got bargain when
we disposed of it to him as the most
expensive Panama ever sold in New
York. Do you think he is going to
| leave that lying around the house as
! if it was a discarded Mackinaw? Not
much. Former Mayor Van Wyck has
good Panama hat, for which he paid
$780, Like other men who own them
he puts it in storage every fall.
Since King Edward paid EGO for
what is believed to be the best Pan
anna hat in London, surmise he is
going to wear it again next year. II
he wears his other men who like to
follow the fashion will wear Panamas.
All things considered, think there
Panama hat fad has been the most
expensive ever invented. 1t gave men
the right to compete with women in
lavish expenditure for headgear.'
WOMEN'S LONG SKIRTS.
When you see beautiful female
creature looking off into space, her
round eyes shining like stars, her
whole mentality riveted on some prob.
lem, it is shocking Ito think that she
Is trying to think about some new
fO01iShnnSy in dress
We observe with regret that wom-
an has recently inaugurated brand
new kind of foolishness.
We refer to the skirt, long in front,
| that woman falls over-the skirt
that gathers up microbes ahead, as
the trailing skirts used to gather
them up behind.
We realize what an important work
women have to do in the .world-we
wish they would get at it in hurry
and we try to divert them from fool
ish littleness that check their prog
ress, waste their time and thought.
If you catch a cannibal and want
to make a good Protestant clergyman
out of him, you must first cure him
of cannibalism.
If you want to make high-class
citizen out of clay-eating Indian,
you must first get him to stop eating
clay.
If you want to make thoroughly
useful human being out of woman.
you must coax her away from the
foolish fashion ideas which are the
80 r,opfol i,fa ty
Women, don't you see how men
have uutstripped you in their sensible
attitude toward dress?
Men used to wear wigs, powdered
hair, false calves on their legs, clothes
of satin, silk, lace and velvet.
They have stopped all that non.
sense, and see what progress they
have made.
Woman, On the other hand, still
wastes her time on frivolities that are
meaningFess-or worse than meaning
less-because they injure health or
detract from modesty.
FASHION HINTS
Things come in all colors.
Shaded ostrich plumes tempt
Silk Cluny is magnificent lace.
Ribbons are positive necessities.
Shaded marabout aigrettes figure.
Laces are dyed to match dresses yet.
Gun metal green cog plumes are
rich.
Pompons are done in ostrich and
co.,
Fine wolfe is used for house and
other dresses.
Insertions play an important part
in negligees.
Coral cog borders a lovely trico-ne
in terra Gotta.
gilt scrolls.
Peacock plumage, not the eyes, is
seen on terra Gotta hats.
Graceful back views distinguish es.
pecially the new hats.
Olive hues are liked in dress goods
as well as in millinery.
Moss roses are among the most
charming milliners' flowers.
Cinnamon brown. warm tone, is
one of the most beautiful colors.
Stocks of all sorts, especially lace
and hand work, are too pretty to re-
sist.
1t is astonishing what lot of colors
somber-looking silk suiting can con.
tain.
One of the seasons strongest fam
cies is the Greek key design for en-.
broidery for braiding.
Just the reverse of daytime shades
very delicate monotone tints will be
la mode for evening.
Bands and ruchings of ribbon are
decided innovation as ball gown
trimming.
The most delicate pinks and blues
in fur-lined cloth will be the swagger
evening wraps of the winter.
Soft ribbon or silk rosettes having
jeweled button centre are much used
in decorating autumn gowns.
Faithful reproductions of gowns
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