Summer Millinery

Straw hats are not exactly in demand as yet, but the first installment of sumruer millinery luis blossomed out in tho shops without :my regard for weather, and rough, silky straws are more abundant than ever. Vegetable silk is a new 'abric in millinery and is used for plaits of various widths and eolors, which ïave a very glossy effect. Bibbon braids i inches wide, edged with a braid of another color, are nsed iu both hats and lounets, and wide braids iu the forrn of )laits are fashioned iuto hats over a wire frame. Vegetable silk plaits are rather expensive, so thero is a mixture of hemp and silk, which is firm and wiry and so thin and light that it is rnched under the brim of some of tlie large bats. This new braid is said to be made of the raw silk as it comes from ;he cocoon. Wood silk fib'T is another material which appears in the new raids. Lightness seems to have been the main effect of the designers in hats this seuon, and it can be a boon to all womandnd if tho milliners do not offset, this sy loading the hats with brimming. Japanese rush and Japanese straw help out the variety in lightweight effects, and pananv imtswill be rnuch worn for cycling. Large hats ,rc even larger thau they were in the fall, and the crowns are medium broad aud rnedinm in height. The brini is usually narrowêr at the back than at the front, but somesbapes wider. at the sides where the brini turus up, aud others turn u'p at the back, with plumos underueath the brim. ïhere are fluted brirns iu every shape imaginable, but the old sailor shape iu thenewlight braids bids fair to head the list of popular hats. The senriaunual predicrion that bonnets are to be worn more thau hats has cropped up again; but, as usual, it is a doubtfui oue, siuce hats are sure to be more poptilar in summer. Amoug the novelties is a rather startliug shape, with a bell wwvn and a brm much ■wider at the sides than either back or front. A new idea advanced iu bonnets is that we are to haVe cape effects, not exactly in the old style, however, as they stand up instead of f alling over the neck, but there will be bonnets and bonnets, andwidth is to be one conspicuous feature of them. One little shape is like a Plenaish peasant woman's capote, with a square crowu and a 4 inch brim. Wide ribbons, plaitedchiffon, lace and flowers in great profusión will constitute the main features of hat trimming, and black hats will be very popular, despite the fact that brilliant color