The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-12
HAm To THE BoNNETl

And tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied young mans heart within. '
 More than a generation has passed
 since Nora Perry wrote those charm ing lines. It is long since bonnets have been worn, as a regular thing, by those to whom young mems hearts are sus- ceptibIe. Few women on the sunny side of the grandmother period wear bonnets nowadays, and 1t takes, as a rule, a pretty yenerble grandmother to wear one. But the ediet is said to have gone forth that bonnets are to be worn, even by young girls-bonnets with rib bons tied under the chin.
 This is pleasant news. A bonnet has great possibilities in the way of head gear; it lends new fascination to a pretty face: even to a plain one it's art can lend attraction. It is more flexible, more adaptable. then thehat. There are limits beyond which the hat becomes Impossible; nevertheless, the more iintolerable the effect, the more the hat ifs insisted upon. The bonnet is univer- sal in it's scope; like charity covering its multitude of sins, so the bonnet may properly and becomingly cover multitudes of feminine heads with
 equal adaptation. Its range extends from the cradle to the grave. The hat, on the other hand, normally appertains j to youth; it's popularity with advane- ling years largely proceedsfrom a sup posed quality of conferring youthful llooks-illusion all too fondly cherished las years go on, The hat justifies itself
 50 far, and no farther. But the line of j demareation is one difficult to deter mine One always likes to see women
 earring their years gracefully, holding
 their own we'll, but not meeting the in-
 evitable with all too manifest reluc- Itance. The hat is a help in this; even with hair as gray-yes, snowy, but l brayely flowing-there are phases of hale, autumnal comeliness that the hat Judgments. Then there is a sort of up- land-coming air that the hat goes with Emell-wcrn by the sort of woman who has an alert step, plays golf and takes long walks afield to study birds, bot tanize or. sketch. But the sag-shouldere female, pillow-ltlIe in form, shirt waist Ebulging behind as before for her the hat is commonly too much. When the hat period Is clearly passed the woman
 who clings to such covering wears il with defiant aIr-hercely aggressive
 an amazon helmet crowned Neyerthe- less, some woman in their sixties carry Iwell the hat. But when it comes to the lseYenties, not to say the advanced 3eighties, words fail to express the hor. EEror that. the sight inspires seraWTly
 neck, sharp chin and nose protrusiye
 scant hair drawn to a pitiful little bob what support fer the turret Of milii-
 nery, that makes d good old lady look < the Witch of Endor! How welcome then, would De friendly bonnet, dis tcreetly covering, enclosing!
 There are bonnets and bonnets, to be sure; we remember that when fashions changed, discarded bonnets became Ifrightful in drgrees such as hat never lachieved. Particularly was this true oi the large, capacious. coal-scuttle va, lrieties. Comfort and convenience strange to say, have worked to keeT Ithe hat in favor. The hat has no visi- Ible means of support rather of at. Itachment, more strictly speaking. A 5 hat pin jabbed here and there, ane ladjustment is complete. But it is some, thing of an art to tie bonnet ribbons land feeling cf them under the chin i: mot overcomfortabIe, they say That i; the serious out about. the bonnet comfort and convenience are eondsid, lerations that should make Fashion thu lhandmaid of good sense.
 l The bonnet, aside from the old ladies lhas never left us entirely, In set shape' lit belongs to religious orders; in tn, lrustic districts the sli1bonnet has nevei become extinct from \, passing train have always been glimpsed lean-buii
 Aunt Hannahs in sunbonnets that con fer guidepost profiles, stalking iron back doors to feed the hens. Unlik,
 the hat and cap, the bonnet seems dis ltinctly a feminine headpice. Line
 like blue bonnets over the border
 and scott's plaids and bonnets Wavinl high therefore puzzle the beyfsh nlint
 The Scotchman's bonnet, however. wa lscfnething like the cap. And the forn
 of cap that laboring men accept, witt
 earlaps to be turned down and tied, i