The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-10-01
MILLINERY OPENINGS.

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Headgear-A Ticklish Sub
ject Approached With Fear
and Trembling.
They happen twice each year,
Just as regular as regular. Once
when the cold and dreary days
OF winter are shaking hands with
the genial warmth of spring and
once again when the scortching
heat of summer gives place to
dreamy Indian summer days
twice each year do the creations
of the milliner's art engage the
attention of the world for a spell
to the exclusion of all other lesser
matters like the fifth dimension
or who hit Billy Patterson, and
just as regular as that does the
pencil pusher have to approach
the subject with fear and tremb-
ling and say that they are here.
Well nam and sir, they have
happened again, the millinery
openings have-they're happen
ing now. And it's a ticklish
matter to write about 'em, if
anybody should happen to ask
you. Quite so. One feels like
tip-toeing up to it, tip-toeing all
around it, backing away from it,
and then you get frightened and
want to run away from it. But
it's no use. You feel like you're
walking on eggs and every min
ute you think you are going to
break through-that is, without
making any further bones about
it, one feels like he is going to
write something he ought not to
have written at all. Which is a
serious thing, when you come tC
think about it. But when one
gets cornered the best one can
do is to break out the best one
can, So
Anyway, it's safe to say that
beautiful creations of the mil
liners art" have engaged the
attention of the ladies at the
millinery stores of Messrs. Cald.
we'll & Carlyle and Miss Jo-
sephine Breeze for the past three
days. HIM. Bet that's right
that far. One can always say
beautiful creations, you know,
if one can think of nothing else.
That is the theme, anyway,
whether one can vary it or not.
Beautiful creations -just think
about those two words, will you
Don't they make your magma.
ton curl up at once like a plume
or straighten out like a feather
or nestle down like some dream
substance too delicate to touch
or float away like some vision Of
Iloveliness-Ah, that's it! vision!
of loveliness-perfect dreams
exquisite colors-darling shapes
So they are.
Miss Josephine Breece's open
ing was Tuesday and yesterday
and the opening at Caldwell {
Carlyle's millinery department
which is under the management
of Miss Amelia Linkhaw, began
yesterday and is on today. The
expert trimmers at both store
have been engaged for some tim
in moulding bare shapes into tn
forms Dame Fashion require
for this season, and the resul
challenges wonder and admire
ton. And crowds of ladies hav
thronged the stores to admir-
the creations collectively and t
purchase for their very own som
darling shapes that made gla
their hearts. If one fingers lon
enough and who would not lir
ger-one will hear that Marco
this is mighty thin ice so on
must be forgiven if one errs-i
a new shade of brown; thu
laupe is a very ATTRACTIVE SnaO
of gray; about a wine color cal
ed CataWba, about myrtle greer
, chesseur blue, and that some {
the newest shapes are known 6
Kate Greenaway, Directoire, Al
: ma Held, Fifth Avenue. You wi
hear about Coachman hats, don
crowns, Cheyenne hats, hats wit
:. Hiawatha or Pocahontas cola
and lots more that the masc
line mind cannot comprehend
q Which does not matter, anywa,
I The feminine mind understand
and when these creations adol
the heads Of those for whom thu
!, are meant, then the masculir
y mind understands, and all is we
y They're happening again, f
y this is one of the times of Il
= year when the feminine wor
h takes thought of what shall ado
- - it's head withal and wherewitE
= it shall bolster up it's hair in ord
~ to make the aforesaid adornme