Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — TO PLEASE THE SMALL GIRL [ARTICLE]

TO PLEASE THE SMALL GIRL

Designers Have Created for Her Some of the Most Adorable Hats and Bonnets. The small girl’s hat of this present year might have been painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds or Greuze. Velvets and furs, plumes and flowers —all lay their tribute at the shrine of this young person of from four to eight. Plumes are particularly in evidence this year, and there are most adorable bonnets of silk and velvet and fur, with a scoop brim that is underneath all soft shirred silk of either white or some delicate color and' is on top: one or two long plumes brought softly about to streamers of ribbon in the back. Here, for the heroine of four, is one with a crown of brocaded velvet —a rather large, puffy crown—and a softly bent brim, followed picturesquely by two light-blue ostrich feathers with unchrled flanges. To paint the lily, there is a rosebud or two tucked in between the feathers. Peacock velvet makes two of the very prettiest hats noted for her "going on six." Both of these are the dear, little mushroom shapes which we know, and both are combined-with other materials in a way to make every mother’s heart melt- In the first one there is a band of moleskin brought about the crown and punctuated with rosebuds that fall carelessly and at irregular intervals over the -brim. - Angler sets twixt a frill, gold net on the upper side knd black cm the lower, a garland of silken fruit.. A' change from the mushroom la offered by this little imported, whose rtmiltht brim.and.,»o»pred CtPWh

of white silk with a Poiret-like floral pattern of red and green. A rethrn to the mushroom is, however, very grate-ful-when we behold the next hat of brocaded velvet in that soft shade of blue that Watteau loved so well. Tbig is encircled about the crown with a curling ostrich plume of white, ac-. centuated by the little black tails of the ermine which are artfully placed against this snowy background.