The New York herald., 1922-05-21

ening the face. treating it with sweet
consideration.
There are women who do not even pull
some hair down about the ears. They
viciously stick the hard head covering
down on the head. ignoring the fact that
hair Is given to help us look more al
luringly human.
Hats Grow Like ToadstOOIs.
The milliners are being kind TO wo-
men. however, if they are often careless
of their own chance to improve the ap-
pearance. They continue to make tur-
bans, it's true, but these shapes are rot
what the mind conjures by the word.
They reflect the Oriental spirit Their
source is the Arabian Nights. Ali Baba
wore one. So did Haroun al Raschid.
They are important. They are Used as
complete coverings for the head. al
though our women defeat this by show
ing plentiful array of hair at the tenn
pies. be the hat what it WILL
All turbans, however. do not carry the
Arabian roll OF fabric which smashed
into Occidental fashions year ago. But
there are several limitations of 1t that
cause one 10 pause. VIII they go with
the non-exotic American face? We have
a sufficient foreign population to ermit
Of much that belongs to any of the older
civilizations Of the planet. yet the ruling
face is Anglo-Saxon and II Is not always
plastic to Oriental influence. We have
had severe experience with the idea In
the last two years. There are many
who are weary OF IL. We are to have
much more In the next six months from
a Slavic source which Is first cousin to
the Orient and IL strilSingly akin t. what
we have been trying to amalgama.e with
cur local s;yies.
II is strange. therefore, that along
with the undoubted Russian influence
In all forms of dress this spring there
should come sailing over the horizon the
type of hat which we associate with
Strawberries. and such Gargantuan
strawberries Why this connection? Be
cause the islands of Great Britain seem
to sprout both the fruit and the immense
sunshade hat. We feel as though we
were going to play tennis with the young
curate when we put on one of them
A few Of the new ones. launched with
the first signs of warm weather. bear a
curious cousnShip TO the headgear of
Trollopes heroines. married and single.
IT a young lady wears a parasol effect
on her head OF yellow straw and trims
Il with groups Of yellow buttercups she
Is bound to appear like nineteenth
century garden party girl. In those days,
however. they wore fringe or a water
wave OF hair to show between the hat
and eyes. To-day IL is different. The
hat is worn 20 conceal the eyebrows.
There Is another type OF immense hat
which Is not Victorian. II Is of black
straw, with a crown as large as a tur-
ban, trimmed with a wicked and rakish
blackbird. boasting tail out OF all
proportion TO its fellows. This said tail
strikes a path across the front of the
hat and flies into space beyond the limits
qf the owners shoulders. Yet both these
hats expressing different philosophy,
are worn. copied and praised.
The moment a milliner suggests a
Russian hat for the new spring frock
the woman says petulantly that she is
aweary of pointed crowns; that they
were run to death two years ago. that
such hats were sold In the wholesale
centers for next to nothing and were