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Show VARIETY IS WIDE: Clever Woman Can Pick Out Almost Anything , That Becomes Her lng little lace flounces attached to thb underbrlm a piquant and betwltching Innovation. Dy this I do not mean tho plaited lace frill that is seen so much In mob caps and Charlotte Cor-day Cor-day designs. The new garniture is a perfectly straight hanging frill of lace entirely without fulness, that 13 attached at-tached just Inside the edge of the biim and hangs not lower than an inch or Inch and a half. In most cases it is used with the broad brimmed brim-med or picture hat; black velvet models 6howlng it repeatedly. As often as not there is a double flounce; tho outside one of black lace, the Inner In-ner ono of white. It softens the faco and carries out delightfully the plc-turcsqueness plc-turcsqueness of tho chapenu. But it Is a treatment that must be used with reserve, otherwise It will quite lose Its distinction and become common. For the Conservative Smart Women. . The hat3 in the Illustration afford, I think, excellent proof that there Is ample latitude for tho stylish woman who doesn't allow her regard for the mode3 to overcome her good taste. The one In the lower right hand corner Is tho autumn cloche hat, a really charming model and admirably designed de-signed to show off delicate features. It Is covered with black tulle llsae, the underbrlm being faced with black velvet. A delightfully simple but most effective trimming Is tho huge dotted bow of satin and velvet. At the top of the picture is a white heaver toque. Tho brim is of black velvet and upturned at the back and front. The ornaments are cockades and rosettes of black plaited eatln ribbon. rib-bon. The most novel of them all, to mj mind, 13 that In the upper right hand corner. This is a model of black velvet, vel-vet, trimmed with a broad band of light blue velvet tied in a bow near the back. A trailing branch of flowers in soft, pastel shades of blue, pink and red forms a garniture across tie crown. The feature of this bat is the new theatre cap worn under it so that, on entering the theatro the wearer can doff her hat and have her head covered in a dainty lace creation which is at the same time an ornament and a protection against the disarrangement of the hair. An adaptation of the extreme, old-fashioned old-fashioned poke bonnet is shown at tho left. It is of black velvet, with black satin bows placed squarely on top of the crown, one end extending over the brim arranged In bows just under the poke at the back. The hat below this is of tho modified mushroom style that bld3 fair to be very popular this winter. It Is of brown felt the new, extremely fashionable fash-ionable and extremely beautiful shade of brown. It has a round brim, with a: fold of velvet of the same color surrounding sur-rounding it At the front are brown and green wings that extend straight back on either side. Tho effect, which Is very stunning, is rather like a Valkyr's Val-kyr's helmet! I have left the description of the center hat to the last, because I think It Is one of the most beautiful models I have seen in many months It is a large black theatro hat, made of elements ele-ments as unsubstantial as a beautiful dream, but put together with a marvelous mar-velous French art that defies imitation. Tho extreme height of tho airy black crown Is achieved by tall shlrrlngs of very fine black Brussels net, held aloft by Imperceptible wires that evade detection de-tection but serve their purpone admirably. ad-mirably. A wonderful bird of paradise, para-dise, with floating feathers that toss daintily against this unsubstantial crown with every zephyr, and with head posed on tho drooping brim above tho face, completes tho trimming. trim-ming. Tho transparent brim, which has a fascinating wave to Its circumference, circum-ference, Is made of the shirred Brussels Brus-sels net with a deep facing of black satin, both Inside and out, and is finished fin-ished on the edgo with a cord |