Jocund Headgear in the New Shapes As a forerunner of spring the first straw hats are the really infallible signs, -bluebirds and cro. cusses not excepted. The first crop of the new season's millinery. which we have seen blossoming weis discovered in the windows of the Rembrandt Photograph Studio on North Soochow. Road, where a number of the newest things in chapeaux are gaily blooming regardless of snowflakes outside.
If these hats are true prophets of the coming season we are to be cheered by bright hats which will lighten the dullest days. Both in trimmings and fabric vivid colourings are favoured. Cire straws are even more popular than last year, and the horsehair weaves have been improved upon and are seen hero in a variety of soft and attractive weaves. Bright red cherries bob invitingly on one hat, another is gay with sweet peas, while still am-other has some enamel flowers, and another a flat design in the popular silk flowers and fruit of the newest hues. Straw, silk and horsehair, in shapes large. small and medium, may be found here, and at very rea." sonable prices.
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