News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-22

good everyday creations that are BIZ
zarre enough in all conscience, but
with a limit.
To keep right on with this millinery
talk, which | hope is not boring you,
love of turban, styled commercially
Henri IN, is rather large and round
and tall-yes, decidedly tall, but not
eighteen inches-with a brim that rolls
at one side somewhat after the man
ner of an English walking hat The
crown of the turban is of coal dust
velvet-a new shade, on the London
smoke order-and arranged in go-as-
you-please sort of folds that rise a
little higher as they reach the back
of the shape. About this crown is Il
narrow band of fur and at the side a
huge bunch of all kinds of feathered
things that are long and curly and
spiky. From the advanced showing
of hats / would say that shapes will
be smaller and that feathers will not
be the stiff affairs they have been dur
ing the past season. All kinds Of
wings will curl more or less. No color
has as yet been declared. but certainly
dark dyes will lead, and the all black
winter hat will be as successful as
was the all black summer hat. | have
read this paragraph over. and it really
sounds quite like fashion letter, and
| humbly apologize for the infection.
Now for gossip.
Mary S. ran in upon me the other
day on her way to Bar Harbor freHf
Newport, and the moment she got her
hat off she commenced to talk suffrage.
Now, l know that she is not bit in
tereSted in votes for women, and |
have my doubts whether she is just
clear in her mind about the meaning
of the word franchise, but she'd been
to that reception of Mrs. Belmont at
Marble House, where several hundred
of the faithful assembled recently, and
there was no stopping the flow of gush.
Poor thing. She had paid So to hear
the Rev. Anna Shaw and Professor
Zueblin talk on suffrage, and the way
she absorbed the learned lecturers
opinions the money was evidently not
wasted.
Its stylish" she told me, "to be
a suffragist," which let in flood of
light upon her mental attitude on the
subject "Yes," she prattled on, ''it's
almost as smart as delsarte used to
be or Browning or parlor French les
sons when you take the dose at ball
room conferences" That settles it.
Womans suffrage has arrived. The
faithful could have written tracts on
women's rights until the heavens fell
and men would have gone serenely on
casting votes till the morning after
that thrilling event, but now that it is
the fashion for women to want to
vote they might just as well be getting
the ballots ready Now | feel better
and | trust you're no worse for the
outbreak.
AS an antidote to the suffragist
poison | will tell you about silhouette
party / went to the other evening,
The guests were taken into room
across the wall of which was a sheet
with q light so arranged that clear
cut shadow Of a PERSONS head could
be thrown on a piece of wrapping pa
per about a foot and a half each way.
The paper was pinned upon the sheet
and the sitter placed where the out
line of the face showed up we'll; then
with Il soft crayon the profile was
drawn. After the silhouette of each
guest was drawn they were all care
fully cut out and pasted upon black
paper. The name of the person was
written on the back of the silhouette
and the portraits were posted about
the rooms and numbered. The search
then began to place the right name
after each number. There was, of |
course, q prize Il charming silhouette
mounted on an oval silver mat and |
framed in ebony. My silhouette was
anything but classic, for. you know.
l wasn't blessed with a Greek profile. |
When you come from Maine I'll let |
you see how | am as others have to |
see me. But to you l am always yours
lovingly. MABEL.
New York.