The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-29

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-This is just the freezing season of the year when folks all want to keep under cover and draw the quilt well up over their heads. Quilts have doubtless been worn over the head in this fashion ever since the first quilting bee.
 No doubt the comfort derived from such a procedure inspired our ances- dresses of revolutionary days to evolve the snug and close-ftting quilted hoods and bonnets that they tied beneath their dimpled chins on days of frosty chill.
 Madame La Mode, ever on he look out for novel ideas, has bounced on this old quilt head covering habit and as result all the feminine swell heads at Palm Beach, Coronado and the iother winter resorts are to be worn under quilts this season.
 Behold, then, the quilted hat the evolution of our grand-dames' quilted bonnet All the Fifth avenue windows 1 dressed in their Palm Beach clothes have a quilted hat or two as their croWning glory.
 The quilted hats come in all forms and shapes and fancies. If you choose close-ftting cocky little chapeau it is yours all hand-quilted over the top of the crown and brim in taffeta or cotton material in any desirable hue. 1 If perforce you think a picturesque. foppy hat suits better your type Of l beauty, the wide-brimmed common or garden variety is yours for tue buying, either quilted over the top or straw on top with the brim faced underneath in shell pink silk, hand-quilteI In- deed, there are great possibilities and unlimited fascination in the quilted hats, and rare will be the woman aVerse to sticking her head under a quilt like one of these.
 For sheer originality and audacity a little hat of turquoise taffeta has the iquilted novelties almost in a state Of collapse. It's trimming consists of a half-fnished knitted band of turquoise wool part way around the crown. while right in front the black Topped ivory knitting needles are thrust across each other through the rest of the ball of yarn at a rakish poise and angle.
 The only way I see for the quilted hats to beat this novel trimming is to Itry festoon of quilting bees around their crowns.
 The showing of winter resort frocks and suits in the windows offers noth- ling so startlingly ingenious or new as the hats do In fact, in one shop whose windows are all adorned with miniature orange trees to set off the summery styles. you can't help but notice quite a few lemons among the Oi dlIS SCSs dituOuSh lO hOuDl VI lACI4 donned by some Palm Beach peach or pippin these sorry and sour-looking frocks will take on a much more fruity flavor.
 Just as velvet was the material of the winter styles, so now silk, as pres aged by these early resort fashions, promises to be the material de luxe of spring.
 Straight lines and much hand em- broidery in contrasting colors or in bright tints on white are leading notes | both on dresses and suits. Embroid- cred panels falling from the waist line over the hips half way or all the way of the skirts are popular skirt touches and embroidered panels hanging the entire front of a gown from the neck line to the hem are distinct new feature of oyster and ivory white pom gee, tussOr and the rough weave Jap anese and Chinese silks are the cool looking suits with loose-ftting coats, sash girdled with tasseled ends.
 Gay plaid, striped and polk-dotted parasols and vivid-hued Oriental neck laces and strings of barbaric beads add the desired touches of color to these white costumes, with which, of course, smart white pumps and hose and a perky white quilted hat are to be worn
 High-collared, long-sleeved bathing suits to be worn with face veils so that no portion of the timid wearer's anatomy may suffer from over-ex- posture to too ardent sun, are among the many sensational innovations to be offered up on the sands of the summer seas; but far more dashing and daring confection is a white satin suit striped vertically and widely in black on the very short skirt and widely and horizontally on the very low-necked and sleeveless bodice. lThere it is in plain black and white