Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1908 — The Merry Widow Hats. [ARTICLE]

The Merry Widow Hats.

The latest creation of the millinery , faddists has been termed the ‘‘Merry | Widow” hat. it can usually be said that hats are a dream, hut that is not the case with this new hat. It’s a realty. The ‘‘Merry Widow” hat is about the circumference of a barrel hoop, and the crown varies in height from a few inches to a few feet, and the 4gcorations consist of any old verdifse that the Parisian milliner can find, and when the flowers and plants and shrubs and small trees become exhausted the creator of the “Merry Widow” has the license to. tackle the birds of the air and the fowls of the bam lot, and to use com ’stalks or: wheat shocks to give the proper ponderance to the spring sky piece. During the early fall we made an., extensive effort to secure straw for winter bedding for our cow, but were told that there was an mand for it in Chicago and New and we were at a loss to know why this demand existed until we discovered that It was in anticipation of the. manufc&tura of the “Merry Widow* hat. A few days ago we glanced uj| Washington street and sdw a sym°°#ucHL Btra * pll l coming down the street and, still needing straw for the cow, we raced'

PP the stfset to hail it, but when we approached we discovered that the stack was not on wheels and closer scrutiny disclosed that,‘there was a human being of tjie feminine gender and the cow went without | bedding Agtin just to grdtln.toßß creative gemus or the rnfmherß. ? But far be it for us to do or say anything against style, for the beauty of woman lies not altogether in what she does, and the modiste and the hatter and the manufacturer of cosmetics has done much to beautify this world and have transformed manj a common looking woman into an optical delight And many a beautiful woman, by the kihd intervention of nature has made herself an earthly angel by employing the ideas of the modistes and the milliner, and many another beautiful woman has aia,de herself quite common In ‘appearance by scorning style. Sometimes styles look extreme and majt be they are; but what’s the odds if the wearer of them feels happy. So when you see the “Merry Widow” hat coming down street you can make a guses who is under.it, strike dp a “Merry Widow” whistle, 4nd step off the sidewalk and let It go by.