Show hats backgrounds for gay flowers w X K easm IE milliner may go forth and gath er what she will for fashion hae supplied her garden with all sorta of flowers and ribbons and inconsequent bial but alluring fabrics her path Is strewn with roses and other things which may be most agreeably united into such expressions of youth and pleasant weather as the pretty hats bbown here bespeak it happens that black madlne makes background tor gay flowers which allows those who dream out our hats to put many sorts and colors together diack tempers the color riot and proves an inspiration to the dreamer one such inspiration accounts for the excellence of the hat ot black hemp with facing of knife plaited madlne in which a bouquet of roses and jasmine find a resting place the shape Is flat an almost crown less model set on a wide bandeau there Is a wreath of small half blown roses laid about the juncture of the brim and crown or what may pass for a crown A little to the left of the front the brim lifts la a sharp point and where it droops abe right it Is weighted with a rosette of black ribbon with the ends fastened to the bani dreau underneath to keep it in place the shape Is not worn at the ex angle which many bearers wearers like for similar shapes but the sharp droop of the brim serves the purpose as such an angle it makes the right a background against which at least a part of the profile is silhouetted and at the left side there Is an opportunity to study the pretty dressing of the hair an extreme of the mode but a pleasing example of it rivals the black hat it Is made of madlne and lace trimmed with forget me bots nots the big rosette of narrow velvet ribbon mounted at the right supports two blossoms of the cape jasmine flower one of them overhangs the brim drooping to the shoulder this hat Is managed in its cariou pose by the way in which the brim is placed on the crown in reality the crown sets almost squarely on the head but the impression one gets of this bit of fancy headwear Is that it la about to slide off at the left side it is a rakish little affair for a frivolous mood such as belongs to those who go a pleasuring in the good old summertime |