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The Straw Bandeaux That Make You
Look Like Bacchantes, the Baby '
. Bonnets for Grown-Ups
LADY DUFF-CORDON, the famous "Luc3e" of London.
and foremost creator of fashions in the world, writes each
week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all
that is newest and best in styles for well-dressed women.
Lady Duff-Cordon's new Paris establishment bring her into
close touch with that centre of fashion.
Lady Duff-Gordon's American establishment is at No. 17
West Thirty-sixth street. New York City.
By Lady v Duff-Gordon ("Lucile")
AN.w
Spring Model
of SNr
White Crop,
with
Bulgarian
Trimming.
UST a pep at th new straws.
Some are very odd; some very
beautiful like every other
fashion, I supose. There are btg
tall hata and big Hopper hats, but
very tew small atraw hata. You
' know the elaborate bandeaux of
the Winter. Well, you will see
them Id straw this Summer. They
are cunningly woven of many
shades with little touches of gay
ribbons In the place of Jewels and
embroidery. Some of them have
feathers sticking around them, for
all the world like an Indian chief's
head-dress. They are very cool
looking and some are most charm
ing, especially when the atraw and
shape and ornamentation are se
lected In harmony with the hair's
color and the coiffure Js arranged
cleverly to harmonise with all.
The fashion can 'really be made
most charming If Iff not overdone.
Some of the pretty girls I havt
seen wearing these new straw
bandeaux look quite like Bac
chantes, but very discreet ones.
The fashlont of childhood are be
ing extended Into the strawi or
grownups There's the bebe bon
net, for Instance. Here's a picture
of It This quaint hat Is designed
to suggest the baby's bonnet with
huge crown, flat, Dutch turned
back flap over the face, ear rosettes
and streamers all complete. The
bonnet Is of pink straw, with trim
mings of Cluny Insertion, pink
rosebuds and black velvet.
Naturally the Durbar struck the
Imagination of the milliners and
East Indian effects are the erase.
I llae the Oriental touch but once
again I want to warn you to please,
please do not go In tor extremes.
It la unbecoming and silly and
usually expensive, not only to purse
but looks. Many of the new Dur
bar hats have mabarajsh trim
mings, - towering up directly In
front. One I've seen Is of cream
straw trimmed with blue velvet
with the feather ornament in pea
cork shades of blue and green. '
Here Is a gold lare hat from
Paris. Of course. It's not a straw,
but 1 think there will be as many
lace bata worn thla season as
straws. Many of them are very
lovely. They are the specialty of
one famous -Paris milliner who baa
brought out the same shape In
various sorts of white lace and in
gold and silver Chantllly. The hat
The New
Gold Lace
Floppy Hat
with the
Single
Plume,
is very supple and light, the brim
rolling over and over against the
crown at the right side. Into the
tube thus formed is thrust the end
of one superb ostrich plume.
Just to give you variety, I show
you thla new Spring model of sheer
white crepe with . Bulgarian em
broidery. The border la very effec
tively veiled with the thin. White
crepe fabric; the short white tunic
fa.ilng over a tunic of the bor
dered material. The longer tunic
on the skirt also veils the colored
border embroidery.
For the rest, I will Just give
publicity to another new potat
which it seems will be noticeable
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The Bebe Bonnet, the Child's
Hat Made Over for
Grown-Ups.
In the creations of some of the lead
ing Parisian modistes, though please
understand that this la not going
to Influence my own doings or
drestwa In the least, ss I always
strive and dare to be distinctive.
There seems to be rather a lack
of confidence, In the strictly tailor
made costume, aud -a teudency to
regard it with what I can best de
scribe as the "half tailor" or "dress
maker's tailor" creation. Myself, I
always think that the tailored coat
and skirt cannot be too simple In
Its general scheme and effect, though
It is always easy to give it some
feminine and prevailing touch, and
some telling color contrast, which
shall be unexpectedly, and therefore
nil the more delightfully, revealed
more by means of tie, or lining, or
lapel facings, when the straight and
outwardly unadorned little, coat Is
thrown open, the corsage part of the
plain skirted dress offering further
scope for dainty details-
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Perry Memorial Mon-'
ument to Be Erected
on South Bass Island,
Lake Erie. The Shaft
Will Be Used a a
Lighthouse.
from
the
How the Huge Shaft to Be Erected Will Be
Used to Protect the Living and Honor
the Dead at the Same Time
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Commodore Perry Changing Ships in the Battle of Lake Erie. Ill 1 1
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THE design for the Perry Me
morial, which la to be
erected on South Basa
Island, Lake Erie, has been se
lected by the National Fine Arts
Commission as the result ot a com
petition under the auspices of the
Interstate Board of the Perry's
Victory Centennial Commission.
This memorial is unique in sev
eral respects. In the first place
It la Intended to celebrate a victory
of peace as well as a triumph ot
war. While It is erected primarily
in honor ot Commodore Oliver Haz
ard Perry, the hero of the Battle
of Lake Erie in tne War ot 1813
and the author ot the historic
phrase "We have met the enemy and
they are ours," it is also intended
to commemorate the 100 years of
peace between England and tbe
United States which followed that
conflict and the cementing of their
friendship by the arbitration treaty
Just entered Into between them.
Then again, besides serving as
a monument to tbe dead, this me
morial is to do duty as a light
house to protect the living, it is
te be erected on the narrow Isth
mus which divides South Baas Isl
and In two parts, and at the top
of the shaft, which Is three hun
dred and twenty feet high and Is
the principal feature ot the me
morial, is to be maintained a light
ot the first order, as navigators
call it, to warn mariners on either
side of the Island ot their exact
bearlnes.
In addition to the shift, there Is
to be a museum, a colonnade and a
statue typifying peace.
J. H. Freedlander and A. D. Sey
mour, Jr., of New York, who col
laborated In the competition, were
the architects whose design was
chosen out ot a Held of eighty-one
competitors, comprising the lead
ing architects of the country, who
were Invited to participate in the
contest.
An appropriationiof 1700,000 for
building the memorial was made
by tbe United States Government
and tbe Legislatures of various
Statea of the Union.
- The memorial is to be completed
In the Summer of 1913, at which
time tbe celebration wlU take place.
Tbe accepted design consists of
a large plaza a thousand feet by
two hundred feet, on which is
placed the shaft In tbe form of a
Doric column. The great light at
tbe top will illuminate the adjacent
waters for miles around.
A canal Is to be cut through the
isthmus upon which the memorial
Is to be erected to facilitate the
work of the life-saving corps sta
tioned on the island.
The museum and colonnade are
placed on a terrace at a slightly
higher level than the main terrace,
so that the vista may be enhanced
and the buildings set off to greater
advantage. The museum is placed
on the left and will be utilized for
the preservation ot historic relics
pertaining particularly to the War
of 1812.
Large panels have been reserved
for mural decorations portraying
the many inspiring incidents of the
Battle of Lake Erie, which was
fought out about eight miles from
the site of the memorial
The grounds about tbe memorial
are to be laid out in landscape gar
dening in harmony with the gen
eral scheme.