The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-23
Throngs of Women Eager for High Class Head Gear Gather There to Pick
 and Choose.
Quite the Air of Social Function the
 Occasion Assumed.

The ugly aspect assumed by the weather early yesterday morning proved only a threat--an unfulfilled threat-- and the sun came forth at a very proper and suspicious hour in all its glory. giving the earth. air and sky the tone of a balmy spring day. Just the kind of day that Is calculated to make 8 woman's heart turn very seri- ously to thoughts of bonnets befitting it. There had been just sprinkle enough the day before to clean the dust from out the air. so everything had the appearance that nature had done her spring cleaning and was on parade therefor. No better day could have been selected for the opening of spring millinery at The Fair and hith- CT the earnest seekers after high-class millinery hied themselves. At quite an early hour throngs of the society contingency, the members of which are supposed to be resting and doing pen- nance during this lenten season, filled the spacious milliery department of this popular emporium. They were called there by the very tempting ad- vertisement that had announced the coming of the important event and by the glorious promises therein held out.
 The promises. they discovered, were beautifully and fully fulfilled in the
 
 and in the reasonable prices thereto attached.
 The whole day assumed quite the air of social event for in her gracious way Miss Norris, the accomplished head of this department of The Fair, received her callers with the same de- gree of hospitality accorded by host ess, wearing smart toilette of white lace over silk. She and her as- sistants were kept busy doing the hon. ors as the tide of guests steadily in- creased as the day went on and show cases began to be filled to overfowing with beautiful coveted "beauties" marked sold"
 Did you ever notice how badly a wo- man wants a hat after "sold" is put on 1t? Why is 1t? guess for the same reason that eggs are not good to star boarders save when a forbidden price of 40 cents per dozen are put on them. It is the old story of the sweet ness of forbidden fruit" Everybody was trying on hats. As is not usually the case every woman seemed bent on being the owner of an opening day creation.
 No season, judging from the display seen yesterday at The Fair, has been SC eminently a flower season. Flow ers-fiowers galore. There were flower hats, thore we-e hats SO laden with flowers that only bits of the foun- dation could be seen between here and there, and there were larger picture hats of straws with clusters of gor- geous roses on top ard beneath the brim, and there were exquisite hats with dropping blossoms fashioned to fall over the hair from an upturned brim in the back. There were sailor effects with bewttching intermingling of lace, flowers and soft ribbon built fl on straw But supreme reigns the blossoms, and tho ribbon. lace. tulle or straw is this season only an accom- continent. The hat that is built en- tirely of flowers Is a turban with in- finite variations-still the turban fam fly. The newest turban is the Polo turban, that has become much of s favorite in New York. It is the oppos- ite of the picture hat and in the ward robe of many woman the two will find place. though there are women and there are ages that must eschew the latter, though the former Is safe from IS to 60. The Charlotte Corday is still on the fashion boards. though the