Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1882 — The Sun Bonnet in the South. [ARTICLE]

The Sun Bonnet in the South.

Yet there a*e people who would see in the New York girls & certain vmolesomeness suggestive of beauty, and, like the prisoner in Picciola, see in these delicate complexions and willowy forma only ill-, supplied lungs and pinched diaphragms. Not 40 my elderly friend who calls heaven’s vengeance down on the man who invented hats for women. “The sun never shone on my wife’s face in her life,” he says, with emphasis. “She wears a sun bonnet.” The sun'bonnet is the great author and consetver of the. Southern complexion.lt is one of the great sectional distinctions between the North and South, never having lost character like the slouch hat It has its fashions. Women exchange patterns with their friends and jealously guard them from their enemies,' and certain varieties at times rage. like the yellow fever. But it is always sun bonnet, whether of a primitive kind, made of calico and fortifled by pasteboard slats, or of corded muslin, transmitting a faint blush of pink or whatever color best suits the ’wearer’s beauty.— Yellow Springs, {Va.,) letter.