The Ottawa Free Trader

Autumn Millinery.

Light hats are abandoned for those of dark blue or brown or black rough straw, and fruits, feathers and birds take the place of flowers for their trimmings. Thus, instead of a white sailor hat with white wings and puffs of muslin spread like sails, there are now dark blue sailor hats with two bands of inch-wide gros grain ribbon around the crown tied in quaint little bows on the side, and a great cluster of blue plums, or damsons, or blackberries is massed in the front to rest on some high forked ends of ribbon; brown hats have peaches or grapes with their bloom upon them, and black hats have luscious currants, red, white and black, with bands of red or black watered ribbon. Still later, fancy feathers and birds will be added, and as it is quite English to wear these straw hats throughout the autumn the fashion will be adopted here. - Harper's Bazar.