Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-20
CHARACTER IN CLOTHES

, not on a higher plane than her shoes, or below her hat in style and quality
 If her hat is kind of lady of lets- ure hat. and her shoes Of WorkadayH ga style. why, they will harmenize neitfl- er with the suit nor with each other Reliuda likes to have the conscf- ousness that there is perfect unity among the different articles of her at tire.
 "Yes Belinda has to feel right in her clothes or else they might as well hang on their pegs forever. Ana even when they are hanging on their pegs she always devotes two pegs to each friendly intimate feeling toward thenl-to believe. when she looks at them, that she is gazing at part or herself
 '"This looks as if Belinda was a very fussy person, which she is not, being only very conscientious. Really, if you could see her in costume that has passed muster, one that harmon izes both with her eyes and her ln- come. that reveals no insanitaTy stitches and has no germs lurking ID the seams. that shows graceful lines and pleasing color-in short, cos tune that is true to its wearers ideals you would sec a pretty girl who in the best sense of the term ana according to her own conviction Is
 
 Far be it from me-" went on the chatty woman, ito quarrel with Be- linda for being conscientious. l only wish that more of my friends were like her. Still. there are compensa- tions when people express themselves freely in their clOtheS-partlcularly their hats.
 Not length of intimacy with your woman friend, nor any deliberate pys- chological study of her nature, will reveal her to you as surely and as thoroughly as will one glimpse of her spring hat She may hide herself from your mental analysis, she may trick you by hundred intellectual and spiritual disguises, but when she chooses her hat her hidden nature re- veals itself. and she stands before you with all her qualities confessed.
 What a constant surprise these millinery revelations are! There is Emily, whom I thought the soul of so- briety and denureness, and yet had she really possessed these qualities would she have chosen for her spring hat a purple bowl decorated with vel low green feathers? And how can reconcile the quiet modesty, the shrinking timidity of my friend Phy- His with screaming audacity of burnt orange bow on 8, cherry col ored turban? Then there Is my artist Friend, MISS DOW6Ts 4WnOS6 WdlcT COiOF sketches show delicate quakerish tints, yet in her hat she turns her back on such ideals and dares to ap- pear in perfect riot of reds and pur- pies.
 My neighbor, Mrs. Stern. is by her own confession superior to clothes and entertains a noble contempt for per sonal adornment. Still if she were really sincere in these sentiments would she be seen in a red straw decorated with cream colored feath CT duster? Another neighbor, Miss Linseme, is too much occupied with putting things into her head to care about what goes on 1t, and yet who but herself is responsible for those huge loops of watermelon pink ribbon that grace her spring hat2
 Its all great mystery. and I am not sure whether these seemingly contradictory bits of headgear are ex- pressions of hidden depths in the na- lures of my friends, or whether they are but a kind of millinery measles, @ breaking out of some unimportant mental disease that has nothing to do with the real nature of the victim. "- Chicago News.