THE HAT MAKES THE WOMAN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7978, 8 December 1911, Page 6

THE HAT MAKES THE WOMAN.

But that is not the woman of to-day. She does not sit at home. In what used to be her decorative days'she learns a profession or trade, _an art or craft, and docs not much care whether- there is even a bid in her matrimonial offing. ; Even when there is, the bird that is to be caged bargains with the buyer—stipulates for the policy of the open door and her right to fly in and out as she pleases. When there are young birds in the nest, to her entire credit she comes often to soe how the fledglings are progressing. I have not yet seen anything on the woman’s movement that implies neglect of maternity. She becomes increasingly careful of her clothes in these matronly days, and as she grows older she becomes more radiantly youthful. No longer does the woman of £o-dar look in the glass, see crow’s-feet multiplying with wrinkling vigour, and count her grey hairs in despair, thinking o I her place in the corner of the house and conducted and protected journeys without, in a bonnet and a rusty gown. No, she goes to a better costumier and a thoughtful constructor of corsets, changes her hairdresser for a more skilful craftsman, practises face massage, _ and increases her milliner’s bill. It is the hat that makes the woman, from the cradle to the grave, and the bonnet of- a generation ago often aged her and labelled her old and uninteresting even before she bad stepped out of youth. Only women who really like trouble and spend their lives searching for it wear bonnets today,—"Daily Mail."