The Old-Fashioned Bonnet by George E. Langdon

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 11, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 15.

The Old-Fashioned Bonnet

By George E. Langdon

How DEAR to my heart are the scenes of my childhood — The old-fashioned bonnets our girls used to wear; No spears, fierce and warlike, nor birds from the wildwood, No murd'rous reflections those bonnets did bear. The wide, spreading hat-rims that thrust you aphelian, The peach-basket headgear with ratty, puff'd hair, May be "all the rage," a la mode, not plebeian; But give me the hats that the girls used to wear,— The neat, modest bonnets, the ribbon-tied bonnets, The plain, spearless bonnets that girls used to wear.

College Place, Wash.