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Colonist, Issue 71, 25 June 1858, Page 4

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BONNETS. ( From the Philadelphia Bulletin.) Of all the charms dear woman wears, Of all her many traps and snares, For real effect there's nought compares With a truly pretty bonnet; For when or wherever you chance to meet One that is perfectly modest and neat, You may depend 'tis a proof complete That the head Has more in than on it.1 No matter whether she's pretty or not, llow much or how little money she's got. Whether she live in mansion or cot, 'Tis a fact, depend upon it; The woman to mnke a man happy thro life, To make a model mother and wife, Is one who, scorning this milliner strife, Wears a plain and tasteful bonnet. Now a bonnet of genuine beauty and grace, Worn on the head in its proper place, . Shadowing faintly the wearer's face, " Is a thing for a song or a sonnet;" But one of those gay and gaudy things, Made up of rainbow and butterfly wings, A mixture of flowers, ribbons, and strings, Is dreadful, depend upon it. A vulgar mass of " fuss and feather," A little of everything thrown together, As if by a touch of windy weather, ■ A wretched conglomeration— A tort of cup to catch the hair, Leaving the head to " go it bare," A sjtriking example of " Nothing to Wear,", /'. ' Is this bonnet abomination. It makes a woman look brazen and bold, Assists her in catching nothing but cold, Is bad on the young, absurd on the old, A nd deforms what it ought to deck ; For look at her face, no bonnet is there, See at the side, it hangs by a hair; View it behind, and you are ready to swear That the creature has broken her neck; No matter where you may chance to be, No matter how many women you see, A promiscuous crowd or a certain she, ' You may fully depend upon it That a gem of the very rarest kind, A thing most difficult to find, A pet for which we long have pined, Is a perfect " love of a bonnet."