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I / If you would know what is being worn in the way. of millinery today, gather together all the portraits you can find of the grande dames of the past centuries, study the individuality of each hat pictured therein. This collection must include pic tures of the Court ladies who lived in the time of Marie Antoinette, also many of the Empire period. The fashions of 1830 must be among them, too. When studying these models, remember that they are to be accurately reproduced without modifi cation. That accounts for the enormous brims of the new hats which we now see, and the towering plumes, and the picturesque streamers and the full draped crowns. Bringing fashions of hundreds of years ago down to present day millinery is a pleasurable occupation and one which is necessary if one would produce the aooepted modes of the moment. No matter how extreme, if one finds its counterpart in past fashion, then the hat is the correct mode for present wear. In Paris the milliners are sowing the enormous brimmed hats. Among the ideas gathered from the past which are reproduced now we find the Marie Antoin ette polk hat, which has the large brim shaped like a bell. -The one reproduced in the picture here is of rustic straw in apricot brown, trimmed at the sides with roses of corresponding shade. The ribbon is antique faille.