Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — Sweet Thing. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Sweet Thing.

Mrs. Flatbush —How many lumps of sugar shall I put in your coffee this Mr. Flatbush—Oh. have your own

IN millinery shops winter is a thing of the past; early spring millinery Is blooming in them, emulating certain flowers that peep up through the snow in northern climes. In the. South spring has already arrived. But even, when It is far off women like to anticipate its coming with hats that make cheerful promises. Certain materials are adapted to these early spring—or more accurately between seasons hats. Brilliant surfaces in fabrics and straws that look sturdy—whether they are or not, ribbons and fabrics and new productions that we are making the acquaintance of. One of these appears in the dignified hat for a matron which appears at the top of the group. The shape is a black braid, called “lisere,” with a collar of wide black satin ribbon folded irregularly about its crown. Above this are two fluted bands, or frills, of a material called cellophane. It is black and brilliant in this hat, like jeL but one finds it on spring mllHbery in colors and both transparent and opaque. Flowers and fruits are made of it Cellophane looks more like the strips of film used for making moving pictures than like a fabric and ft is probably a very similar composition. It has been used in many ways or spring hats, both in the construction of them and for making trim-. mings. Rtbhon and narrow braid used together make the pretty hat at the left, trimmvd with two blossoms with stem

Millinery Proclaims Spring

and leaf, crocheted of wool yarn. There is no end of yarn on spring millinery, used in embroidered effects, other needle work and in yarn flowers or fruits. Net or crepe georgette find themselves associated with sipper straw in many a beautiful hat for early spring. The small, round straws have a very high luster and designers reveal exhaustless ingenuity In using them. In the hat at the right of the group above a round-cornered sailor of georgette has a band made of squares of sipper straw and a pattern of it applied to the brim. Sipper straw made a successful entry in the millinery drama two seasons ago. The difficulty of working it up makes the hats long in price, but that has not prevented them from growing in popularity... The last hat in the group is one of many pretty and very practical hats made of Batavia cloth, which, with hair doth, is a strong factor in the new styles. It has embroidered foliage outlined with raffia braid—and raffia is another item' which must be reckoned with f<» r spring. Handwork, above all dominates the new styles so that wool yarn, raffia, sipper straw and silk appear in embroideries in crocheted flowers end in the body of h«tR.