THE "BLUSHING BONNET."

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2993, 28 January 1881, Page 4

THE "BLUSHING BONNET."

The London Daily Telegraph says ;—lt is not every maiden, in these prosaic days, ■who can summon the " tell-tale blood " to cheeks at will, or silently reveal, by an opportune roseate flush, those inward feelings to which many young ladies experience such difficulty in giving verbal expression. But as the value of the blush, as a highly effective weapon in the feminine armory, is still universally recognised by the sex, although it would appear to have somewhat fallen into disuetude, French ingenuity has been at the pains of devising a mechanical appliance for the instantaneous production of a fine natural glory upon the cheek of beauty, no matter how constitutionally lymphatic or philosophically unemotional its proprietress may be. This thoughtful contrivance is called " The Ladies' Blushing Bonnet," to the side ribbons of which — those usually tied under the fair wearer's chin —are attached two tiny but powerful stool springs, ending in round pads, which are brought to bear upon the temporal arteries by the action of bowing the head —one exquisitely appropriate to modest embarrassment —and, by artifically forcing blood into the cheeks causes them to be suffused with " the crimson hue of shame " at a moment's notice. Should these ingenious head coverings become the fashion among girls of the period, it will behove " young men about to marry " to take a sly peep behind the bonnet-strings of their blushing charmers immediately after proposing, in order to satisfy themselves that the heightened color, by them interpreted as an involuntary admission of a reciprocated affection, is not due to the agency of a carefully adjusted " blushing bonnet.