Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

This year straw hats, in theirgeneral makeup, promise to be as retroUsseas a pug’s nose. In fact, most of them are turned up at every corner and befurbeloWed to a degree. This doesn’t prevent their looking stunning, however. Indeed the pret tiest hats are those which contain most ups and downs. Some of those

straw hats undulate gracefully„ in gentle swoops; others look as though a stiffbreeze'were forever»blowing" over them and making their straw surface into a chopping sea. Here, are samples of the prettiest hats in this line: _ The firstcut shows a hat with an amour str&w crown and black chip brim. Wreathed around the crown is a garland of stalks, and beneath the brim there are rosettes of 1 girt

blue and light pink velvet. A lace □ow is arranged deftly at one side. The second cut is a useful little hat, 'our-cornered and made of brown amour straw with a large spray of mignonette upon one side atid rosettes of three colored satin ribbons. The third hat is a black Leghorn, crossed and recrossed with narrow 'olds of black velvet. On turned

.ip brim a black bow reposes, while ,n the front sits erect a spray of pink roses. At the back of the hat are jouple of small black tips.

Thejast cut shows a hat of bla< chip straw. It is decorated by satin aigrette and an accordh plated bow of black lace. T aigrette stands in the center and < either side of it is a small feather.) Miss Emma Sickles, the Indii philanthropist, has three proteg who are wonders in the musii world. They are the Misses Bit jacket, and they sing like nightie ales. Of real Cherokee origin, th have the richest of copper-cqjor skin, brightest of black eyes, a reddest of lips. Gen. Robert E. Lee’s dsujht Miss Mary Curtis Lee, spends v< little time in America. She has ready made the journey round world twice, a*d is just start again for Cairo, Egypt.