The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-31

Half the women at summer resorts so
 bareheaded and the other half can gen. l orally be seen wearing head covering on . jthe order of the old-fashioned sun Ybonnet. Somehow women never seem to
 \be able to give up those quaint little
 tonfections of frills and fluffy strings Ftorobably because they are so immensely E scoming to the general run of the fair s> K and also because they are such cd mfortable things on hot days
 kt the seashore there Is never any tro uble about the fiuffiness being lost, fora just as soon as bonnet looks dilalpidated 1t is relegated to the rag bag, or turned over to the tender mer- ciesl of a laundress. It's such pleasure to wear something that 1t doesn't mat ter how much the rain and dust get on. It's next best to going without any head covering at all, style the summer girl has been affecting for several seasons and one she finds too delightful to give up
 Even for automobiling, when a little protection to the hair Is needed, the sun bonnet comes into play. Certain shapes of bonnets are almost as good as regu- Iation automobile heaAgear and in some cases cOnSlQcTdDly DtlicAs NAch WCoA- ing a bonnet veil can be dispensed with almost entirely and yet the eyes Twill be well protected from dust and glare.
 That curious little feminine trick of carrying a pretty sunbonnet dangling over an arm is still in vogue among the younger set of bonnet-wearers. It seems to go with the bonnet just as much as strings and frills do. How ever. it's more picturesque than prac- tical though 1t must be admitted that the summer girl makes no point of being particularly practical.
 All sorts of materials are utilized in the manufacture of sunbonnets. both plain and fancy. Chiffons and laces for the daintier ones and ordinary cham bray, ginghams and mulls for the everyday affair. Some are lace trim med while others are mass of cord fngs; some are large, some are small and not few are of medium size; so. you see, 1t would be utterly impos- sible to say that there is any one or even three or four styles of bonnets more popular than another. The truth of the matter Is that a girl chooses whatever she finds becoming to her own features and let's 1t go at that One will prefer the old-fashioned scoop and another will elect to wear the puaintest kind of frilly little bonnet that makes charming frame for her dimpled face. Very little matters so long as 1t is on the order of a sun bonnet.
 For golflng these head coverings are without equal. though few feminine players like to wear anything in the way of headgear while on tour of the links. Professionals. or. rather tourna- ment players, are different. and I have seen some of the finest golfers this country produces playing match games and wearing the most remarkable hats. wide of brim and with no small amount of trimming that to onlookers seemed enough to distract the attention of any one who was working hard to win the hole. Mrs. Manice, for instance. in the Metropolitan Championship game, was dressed entirely in white. and on top of her precise little head there perched an enormous white straw saIlor with a band of white and a bird for trimming. The wonder was that she could make a good. full swing when burdened by such a hat. Some of the other players went bareheaded, while few wore small bonnets or canvas hats that were in the nature of a bonnet. Most of those who chose the latter had them slung over their arms or necks. or even twisted through the handle of their golf bag. It
 isn't the summer girls choice. by any
 means, to have her pretty hair covered
 up if she can help 1t. and then the truth
 ia that nearly everyone wants to ac-
 ouire that sunburned tint which Is a characteristic of the vassar girls hair. It takes months out of doors to get It
 the right shade. and then only hair that
 b on the brownIsh shades will take 1t