Show THE LEGHORN HAT ALWAYS ONE OF THE STAPLE VARIETIES IN MILLINERY Woman Who Invests In This Style Stylo of Summer r Headgear Gets Good Value for Her Money In spite of or all the Jokes concerning I the tho fragile quality and fleeting styles I of our millinery there are certain varieties of hats that are as staple as flour and more lasting than any of the head hjad coverings affected by men except ex ex- except for the panama The woman who invests in a good- good leghorn hat may depend upon it to do service for many a season and tho the same is true of panamas and of ot those hats of embroidery and lace which are classed ed as lingerie hats Take the leghorn for example One of these In Ina Ina ina a good quality may do service for six seasons In tho the hands of or a professional l h- h milliner or of the clever home bome milli mil milliner 11 ner ncr it may be remodeled from year to year and remain a thing of beauty and anda a joy jO- for tor mid The leghorn is a summer mid-summer hat like the lingerie and the panama it is not to bo be brought out before tho the arrival arrival ar ar- rival of hot weather and it flourishes until tho the first frost when its career for a season is over Its trimmings are then to to be bo carefully removed thet tho the t F shape smoothed and restored and put away in a paper bag where it t will be out of reach of the dust and not crushed In any way Fig ilg 1 shows a leghorn flat In the simple and awl original shape in which these hats are usually bought For Its first season the brim Is wired near the edge with a silk covered wire matching It in color and sewed with hidden to the under brim A wreath of flowers and haws bows of ot velvet velvet velvet vel vel- vet or other ribbon make up its trimming trimming trim trim- ming or ostrich plumes may be used in the same Iamo wreath effect There hasn't been a time within the memory of woman when such a hat was was' un fashionable When fashion decrees that crowns must be largo large or brims droopy droopy droopy-a a crown of another braid or one of flowers lace net or ribbon answers the demand of the fickle goddess The Tho brim may be scoured with soap suds using a n bland soap pulled and rewired into the fashionable droop Such a ahat ahat ahat hat Is shown in Fig 2 with a crown of transparent braid sewed on over the original crown A full wreath of lovely love love- lovely ly corn flowers with a velvet ribbon bow at the back In th the same color as the flowers completes the design JULIA BOTTOMLEY |