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The "Peach Basket* the "Fruit Hatband the" Vegetable . Hat.* < THE Merry Widow hat and the cartwheel hat have gone, and in their place have come the peach-basket hat and the fruit hat, and the vegetable hat. And ju3t as the Merry Widow hat caused many and strange social complications so, too, have the extraordinary new Spring hats of this year already be gun to figure in the news. In Philadelphia, Dr. William J. El der has brought suit for divorce be cause his wife, Florence, almost drove him into bankruptcy by her extrava gance in peach-basket hats. In St. Louis a vegetable hat caught fire on the street, to the delight of jgpV, xfl|g*T I V'/* ' ' S Profile View of the Blue Straw “Peach Basket.” the crowd, but to the dismay and dan ger of tho wearer. In New York, fifty girls dropped their needles the other day, drew the line at working on hats the size and shape of coal skuttles and went on strike. The storm broke In a fury when these fifty Broadway girls, mostly trimmers, threw fifty peach-baskets on the lloor half finished and went out and col lected in a hall for protest. “We want twenty-five cents more a dozen sot these tenement house bonnets, sir,” de manded the statliest striker; "25 cents more a dozen for making these new peach-basket affairs,” was the slogan. “Just think,” explained one of the ire ful girls, “of expecting us to trim a gigantic peach-basket with buckles, bands, braids, cabochons, feathers and a whole horticultural exhibit for or dinary starvation wages! Never in this world!" And the manager had to give in for ’twas getting perilously near Easter. In New York, too, Assemblyman Fran cis proposed a bill to the Legislature to put a stop to the importation and slaugh ter of birds, the extra trimming of these monstrous new creations, and to make it a crime if any but barn-yard blumage was found in the possession of a milliner. At Columbia College Dr. Albert Lef fingweU satirized women of the mode by saying: "We can smile at the vanity of the cave-woman or tree-top dweller who, to attract attention, stuck bright, gaudy feathers in her hair, but what are we to think of the woman of to-day who ad here to similar barbarian tastes?" And the Rev. D. Parkes Cadman thun dered against these "two feet uigh and two feet wide affairs” as "an abomina tion to both man and God.” This millinery fruit fad seized Paris early in the Winter, and rumors drifted across the sea of carrots, beets, currants and tomatoes bunched artistically on the chapeaux under preparation for the Riviera. American designers have sure ly outdone these tentative French ef forts, however, for many of the new Easter hats, loaded with fruit tempting ly arranged in natural looking leaves, are monsters of milliners’ imaginations. The fearsome prophecy which always frightened up when children, that, if we persisted in eating peach pits, peach trees would sprout out of our heads, see- literally to have come true at last Not exactly the peach trees themselves— but whole basketc of their fruit top most of the heads that are een in the smart restaurants just now. £ t r •P Am r mrA i (WV Ij ''lu. I# ~ 4»V* -:im ■ f ■ Pwiwv ~ it' ■P: t V %T 1 ,S i * * ~w&: ■/ \% 1 : - tBSKOk* '—j £Sggjg| Fancy basket effect in dull green fluted straw, with trimming of of blackber ries r i pe purple and un ri p e 1 y green. This poach basket extravaganza is quite the thing. The new straws are very 1 like the fancy sorts used for the pretty fruit baskets in w'hich dainties are sent as bon voyage remembrances, and the shapes of the new hats are for all the world just like round, inverted peach baskets stripped of their handles. One of the most striking examples of the Inverted peach basket hats is shown on this page, both in profile and In full front view. This is a Paris im portation, and is made of a delicate shade of old blue straw—a fine, semi transparent straw. It is trimmed with a profusion of all shades of purple and blue pansies. In the back are loops of violet taffeta ribbon. There are no or naments of any kind on the hat. This hat Is, perhaps, as remarkable and effective a creation as will be worn In New York tnis Spring. The wide flare of the brim and tho very low position of the hat on the head conceal the hair—one of woman's chief natural adornments—and It Is, there fore, a hat which none but a rarely beautiful woman would have the cour age to wear. Of two of the newest “fruit hats” shown on this page to-day, one is of berry red straw, trimmed with big, deep-colored plums and grapes, laid coolly among their own green leaves around the brim; the other is of dull green straw in fluted, fancy basket effect with a trimming of blackberries—some ripely purple, others unripely, but aestheti cally green. Another hat is a very smart affair, almost round in shape and trimmed with a band (hf folded velvet and a cluster of rojry cheeked apples of the tiny size known at Christmas time as “Lady" apples. Some of the more moderate of the recent Spring trlm * met! hats are really charmingly pretty, es pecially those decorated with cherries. There is something about a bunch of ripe red cherries swinging over a pair of sparkling dark eyes that is very fetching indeed, and it will be a foolish maid or matron of the brunette type who doqs not take advantage of this vogue. A very authorlta- Why Courtship Should Continue Through Life BI'SY American men consider their marriage certificate as a sort of fully paid up policy of happi ness. They act as if the courtship days were those of paying premiums of compliment, cheerfulness, courtesy, consideration, and chivalry, and that marriage cuts off all these premiums of loverlike attention. The only way to get an absolute guaranteed Insur ance on matrimonial happiness is to keep paying the premiums. These same men at their clubs often run perilously close to the dead line of boredom in telling of the marvellous qualities of their wives; they run the chromatic scale of enthusiasm, while you wonder. In a dreamy way, whether the angels in heaven were not modelled after these women. Yet at home these husbands keep as silent about their appreciation as if it were a Masonic secret. There is a tendency to assume that this love is known and recognized, so why speak of it? “ghe knows how much FRONT ANP PROFILE VIEW OF A “PEACH BASKET” HAT. “This hat. is, perhaps, as remarkable and effec tive a creation as will be worn in New York this Spring. The wide flare of the brim and the very low position of the hat on the head conceal the hair—one of woman’s chief natural adornments— and it is, therefore a hat which none but a rarely beautiful woman would have the courage to wear.” berry red straw trimmed with deep- colored plums and grapes laid among their OWN GREEN leaves. SparaaKHl ’Oiy ' .. I think of her"—this is a dangerous tak ing for granted of what should bo made real, pulsing and vital In thought, word, and deed. There it little danger of overtelling this story; It is often the wine of life and inspiration to one hungering and thirsting for tho little tendernesses of affection. Ofttirnes some little touch of loving sweetness throws a golden streak of hap piness through a life's whole day, and an involuntary half-smile and a love-light in the eyes born of the remembrance hours later toll of the vitalizing power of a seeming trifle, forgotten or perhaps unnoted by him who gladdened a life anew. There are more people on this great big rolling earth hungering for sweet ness, tenderness, and words of gentle appreciation, genial confidence, and generous affection, than are starving for bread, tfuch words, that were the current coin of conversation before marriage, often seem withdrawn from circulatio i afterward. With husband and wife these deli cate messengers of affection cost so Should Wives . By a Young Wife. I every marry, my husband won't I be bothered about domestic worries, •• nor will he honr about household affairs that have gone wrong." Sometimes a girl makes a remark like that. Well, she isn’t going to bo very happy In married life, that is all I can say, for 1 am quite certain that if things little—sometimes only a thought-—hut it is the thought that does it all. are men who would no more think vuj untarily of carrying home to tnjjj wives a bunch or roses Just as a tm of sentiment than they would thing taking home a bridge or a church or two or throe miles of S'*a coast. Continued courtship after marring, preserves the lover In the husband an '* the sweetheart in the wife. But court ship is not solitaire; like a quarrel, it requires two to make it a real success. It is not the wife alone who needs tho gracious sweetness of consecrated com radeship, for husbands who are built on ttie right lines have tho sarno hunger for loving kindness. One of tin- most common causes of the decline of courtship after marriage, Where it does occur. Is the disillusion that often comes after marriage. When the rosy tints of the courtship days grow dimmer there ia a tendency for the real poetry to turn into commonplace verse, or even Into the baldest prose. In the days before marriage the two candidates for felicity are on dress parade; under the inspiring glow of mutual regard every latent virtue blos soms Into full flower, every falling assumes a roseate hue »mder some char itable Interpretation. Why let such good things go with the wedding day? live and expensive little milliner’s shop Just off Now York's Fifth avo nue. displayed In Its dlndows the other day a big mushroom shaped hat of black horse-hair straw, trimmed around the high crown with a band of i 'f*l blue velvet on which were sewed sunflowers changed by the milliner’s ar tistic license to the steely blue shade. A bow of the bluo velvet adorned tho back of the crown and, hanging carelessly over the back cf the brim, as though dropped there by a Hying blackbird, was a loose cluster of red cherries. Even oranges have been pressed Into service, though this Winter fruit is not as popular here as In Fails. A recently imported hat of white chip was faced with gold cloth, and among the white lilacs massed over the crown peeped out golden yellow mandarin oranges Nor does the fruit farl end this eccen tric trimming innovation. What tho down East farmer folk term “garden pass’’ has also been borrowed by tho Indefatigable milliners. Peas, beans, even tomatoes are seen on tho new hats, and who knows but that wo may expect the homely potato and tho onion soon to Almost Round in Shape and trimmed with a band of folded velvet and a cluster of rosy-cheeked apples. ■■MM '‘■•’"kv pM**” Iways Confide in Their Husbands? go wrong In the heme, It is a wife’s duty so toll her husband. I know that some women have tho idea firmly fixed in their heads that men hate to hear about domestic worries. HtufP and < nonsense! To hear about domestic wor ries annoys no real man; he rather appre ciates being taken Into full confidence, and, if he Is a shrewd Individual nt nil, he may even he able to suggest « remedy if things are not going so smoothly ns wlfle would like. It is perfectly true that some coupies before marriage agree that the man shall attend strictly to his own side and the wife to h»*rs, and Ihat they shall In no way Interfere with each other -in a word, each agrees to act independently In his and her own particular sphere. Be lieve ino, that is a very Imd arrangement, and it Is not at all conducive toward peace and happiness existing in tho home. I think that, where real affection exists there will be complete candor and frank ness, and not one item will be withheld on either side. Obviously, a husband has every right to know what is taking place in tho house hold ; it is a wife’s duty to keep him posted upon all matters, except, of course, In the ease of a man who very plainly Indicates that he will not tolerate being primed up on the latest happening in the home during his absence at business. Very, very few husbands are like that; m ost husbands are delighted If wives take them Into the fullest confidence, and re late all their grievances, worries and vex ations. And what Is more calculated to lighten burdens than confiding nil about them to one you love and who loves you in return? Surely it must lighten a wife’s burden to hear the sympathetic words of a husband : and may It not wonderfully uid her if she ‘,The Curse of the Malignant Mummy” LONDON Is greatly excited by the story of a haunted mummy In tho British Museum. it la certainly an astonishing fact that everybody who has bandied this mummy or been closely associated with it In any way has immediately afterward met death or some grave misfortune. Properly speaking this object Is a mummy case and not a mummy. Tho case, as Is customary, is carved with a likeness of the deceased person contained in it, while that part which represents tho body i» covered with inscriptions of religious significance. The person represented in this case Is the Princess of Amen-Ra, who died In Egypt some 3,500 years ago. The num ber of the case In the Museum Catalogue of 22,452. What had been done to the Princess or to her body after death to cause her to pursue this posthumous ven detta, nobody can tell. First of ail the mummy’s case was found by an Arab in the year 1804. The man who purchased It from the Arab lost a handsome fortune within a few weeks and died shortly afterward of a broker? be Added to the list? At Palm Beach tho millinery has been really fantastic in its extravagance. Only in the frivolous and foolish summer time could one dare to wear such head gear. Peach baskets, jam pots, pudding bowls, even butter tubs, vied with each other for favor. Perhaps the inverted bushel basket shape was most popular, and several of these huge, high-crowned chapeaux had loops of twisted ribbon over tho ears to represent tho basket handles. The effect was simply weird; but the universal feminine comment was, “How quaintly pretty!” Huge bunches of grapes, in all shades from green unripeness to deep October purple, and bigger than any grapes ever grown on any but a Brob dignagian vine, loaded down these Palm Beach hats. From under their brims women with small faces sug gested little chipmunks peeping out of their holes. One Fifth avenue milliner sends out an announcement this week, calling attention to her “Chapeaux of tho New Impressionist School.” Impressionistic they arc to he sure— a riot of apples and peaches and plums and berries of every description' inspirations gotten surely from the piled-up carts of fruit hucksters! secs that he l« willing to loud nssistanrs In the solving of domestic problems which luivo worried dreadfully? Moreover, what is a wife to do when in domestic trouble if she does not go so her husband and tell Hilm all about it? Must alio brood over the matter alone, and perhaps end up by mak ing herself thoroughly wretched and miser able, or go to mi outsider and bo laughed at all over the neighborhood? A husband and wife agree to share troubles as well ns Joys, so It Is but right that, If any matter connected with the home Is tormenting a woman—and it Is a common occurrence -she should go to the one who has premised to share all with her her husband. When big things annoy a woman she always goes straight to her husband; but It Is not the big things which worry the life out of one most It 1h the little, nag ging things which seem almost too trivial to ii <*jitlon and those are the very things a wife should go to her husband about. I certainly can counsel all young women who may I e thinking of getting married to resolve that, granted they get husbands, these husbands will be told nil—mark tho word "all.” Nothing shobld be kept back concerning domestic affulrs which have gone wrong. And, of course, this bit of advice extends to everything. Nothing should be bidden from a husband if peuce end happiness are desired. .Moreover, two bends are better than one, and any day a husband rnnvr be able to show bis wife that she was a fittie silly to be bothered about such and such a tnlng and may point, the way out of bes difficulty in a moment. Yes, it 1« right thnt a husband should be told all about domestic trouble. What would a wife say If a husband hid busi ness troubles from her, and disaster hap pened ms a result maybe? She would de clare Unit be ought to have confided in her. Well, there is no saying how any de ment b- trouble might turn out In the end. so It. Is best to be on the safe side. Let the husband tie told, and he will riot have any reason for grumbling arid fretting later on about being kept In the dark at a time when be might have solved the problem, for really men are not the stupid creatures women believe them to b<* -it Is astonish ing the grasp some men have of domestic affairs. heart. Two of bis servants who had handled tho mummy’s case died within a year. A third servant, who never touched the case, hut made derisive remarks about It, lost his arm by a gun-shot accident. Upon its removal to London the case continued to bring mishaps and misery to those who were connected with It. A photographer had a remarkably eerie experience with the mummy's case as a subject. On the case, of course, there are the usual face and form, purporting to bo a replica of the dead. When the photographer attempt ed to make a picture of this face on the case he got a negative that startled hint What the camera produced was not tne face on the case, but the face of an apparently living Egyptian wom an whose features wore an aspect of repulsive malignity Very shortly after ward the photographer died. it was r.o longer possible to find a buyer for the mummy’s case, with tho result that 1» passed Into the posses sion of the British Museum. The car rier who removed It thither died a work afterward, and one of the men who helped him to put It Into Itsplaoe broke his leg next day.
