here we find the greatest distinction between English and French styles. The regular British straw sailor hat is difficult to-get in Paris is very little worn except by En sh or Americans, whereas certain styles of French hats seem never to cross the Channel, There came out in Paris Inst spring a sort of Tuscan straw hut with a rather high crows, lower in front than at the back, Ito trimmed with broad velvet, either in colour or black, passed through large yilt buckle in front, These hats struck one us being very pretty and stylist, but afterwards they became very cheap anil were more worn by the peuple than anything [have ever +een in Paris. T remem crows of th hen leaving for England in the summer. In London I saw one, and in the north of England I don't believe they existed, Soft felt hats are very much worn for undress and by girls, but for finished jettes a toque or capote is always de As L said before, tinged scarves ceration, hut the effect. is simply odd. 'Toques are very general, even for elderly women, 'They are tually' tuna {med with stitched velvet bows and wings, though of course they are enortnously varied. Ostrich feathers yt munich sive, but osprey is often mixed with wings, There are some ravishing confections in the form of winter mantles, Generally 1g, they are long, almost to the bot the skirt, if in' cloth; 1 the very rich indulge in tong mantle in tue, but economical folk must be contest with els oF capes.
THE LOS' RUSTLE, Any stranger not having visited Bar some time would be struck by the ren able change of moving crowed public buildings, picture galleries, ete, Lhe tnushed silene all ranad be a little edo pressing at first, but let no one in the Dreyfus exse or any has damped the spirits of th It is only the rustle we miss ain silk petticoat has been dethroned in of one of satiny softness.
Ist December.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.