Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — The Dutch Bonnet. [ARTICLE]

The Dutch Bonnet.

The Dutch bonnet is on top in a double sense. It really looks more or less—more rather than less —like a Fiji headdress, nevertheless it seems to become its wearers, who wonder at it themselves. The truth is, women, so far from being as vain as they have been given credit for, are quite surprisingly modest; they admire and adopt all sorts of absurd styles, never realizing that it is really their own perennial loveliness and charm that make them ndmirable. The truth is, it doesn’t matter what a protty woman puts on, she will grace the article and look lovely in it, the worst of which is that all the other women take it for granted that they will look equally so.