Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1911 — Woman’s World [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Woman’s World

Millinery Professor Says "Make Your Hats and Let Ballot Go.”

“I would advise women to make their own hats and let the ballot go." This was the pertinent answer given recently by the professor of millinery at the Teachers’ college, Xew York city, w hen asked for her views on the “votes for women" question. A professor of the art 'of bonnet making is a comparatively new chair in the college world, but that it. is a popular Course and a profitable one from the pupils* standpoint One has only to drop into the pleasant room where the students work from 9 to 12 three mornings in a week to be convinced of the fact that the highbrows are looking to their millinery laurels as well as to purely mental achieve ments.

The millinery course at- this institution is immensely popular for two reasons—first, because it is practical and meets everyday requirements and, second, on account of the charming personality of the instructor, Mrs. Evelyn Tobey, who is a Barnard graduate. The course, by the way, counts for as much as any of the elective studies in the College curriculum.

In the workroom there is an air of suppressed enthusiasm, an atmospheric feeling of everybody trying to do her best, and the ideal held up by Mrs. Tobey is a high one. “We never,” she said, “let go our efforts on even the most hopeless looking hat. We alter the shape and rearrange the trimming until the most critical member of the class pronounces a satisfactory verdict on the creation.” And the weekly class criticisms are dreaded by the pupil whose handiwork is the target for the aims of her sister workers. Taking a special course under the expert guidance of Mrs. Tobey arc* college girls, society matrons, staid housewives and pupils from fashionable finishing schools. The work starts in with the making of a real hat; designs are first made in paper and then carried out in fabrics. The first hat made is the simple street model, and next comes the dressy confection, i “Rather a good looking hat, is it not?” said the professor with pardonable pride, holding up for inspection a stunning picture hat. the recent work of an advanced pupil. It was a study in Gainsborough constructed "from royal blue satin covered with black malines and trimmed simply with plaited ruffles of cream colored lace banded with narrow lines of sable fur and a pale pink satin rose tucked lovingly at one side of the wide brim.

But Mrs. Tobey considered the facing of the hat and the artistic manner of its manipulation the master touch of the creation. And not the least interesting of the many wonderful things done in the school is the making of frames from a willow fabric that is damped and pulled and clipped into condition over the wire foundation. Indeed, the material is molded and shaped mneh as the sculptor models his clay. Just before the holidays the girls were busily working on fabric neck and muff sets and lovely party bonnets. Work of this nature fills in the hiatns between winter and spring styles. Mrs. Tobey impresses npon her class that the study of millinery like most women’s work is never done. Each season brings its special needs in the basic laws of that the successful artist must accept or become that dreaded of all things—a sartorial back number. One of the girls pathetically remarked that she was surely becoming a one idea creature and that her dpminating thought was hats —every woman’s chapeau, from a Bowery travestry of the modes to a Fifth ■venue masterpiece, claimed her attention.

Marriage Maxima. Marriage for love is risky, but ltfa right Marriage Is either kill or cure.

Photo by American Press Association. MRS. EVELYN TOBEY.