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Show Spring Bonnets for Children Modeled After Their Elder's SHAPES for little girls are miniatures of some of the shapes made foi grown-ups, and are quaint and pretty because they have the charm which belongs to little things patterned after larger models. But the trimming of these hats for children is more distinctly different than ever before from that used on the millinery of their elders. This season shows a fancy for narrow ribbons tied in childish bows. Flowers are tiny and ostrich Is employed, em-ployed, but made up in special designs fitted for children's wear. Little pressed shapes divide honors with hand-made hats of thin materials. mate-rials. Beautiful models are shown of the daintiest laces laid over French crepe or the thinnest silks. Lace is more strongly featured than embroideries. embroid-eries. Brims are covered with fancy edgings extending beyond the brim-edge. brim-edge. Facings are of highly lustrous silks or ribbons. Fancy. edgings with pendant finish, like that shown in the illustration, are quite new and captivating capti-vating for these little bonnets. Children's millinery is adorably quaint and suggestive of happy childhood. child-hood. Colors are light and material fragile; for these small bonnets are foi the dress occasions of little ladies. For every day and school wear quiti other ideas have been carried out -by designers. Misses' hats are another story and in a clasa by themselves. While they show the influence of the liking -for thin materials, such fabrics are more sparingly used on them than in hats for women and children. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. |