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The "Peach
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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
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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.
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effect in dull
green fluted
straw, with
trimming of
of blackber
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purple and
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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.
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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.
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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.
