OLD COUNTRY FOLK 



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used occasionally, and indeed still used for running out 

 to hang up the wash or some odd job about the garden, 

 as in the case of my friend here depicted. It is a pity 

 that it should not be in general and constant use. 



The 8un-Boxnet 



Etymology claims such use for it, for the word ker- 

 chief is from couvre cliff, a head-covering. 



The sun-bonnet was of some light-coloured print, generally 

 lilac. The making of it is ingenious and pretty, and shows 

 how the older folk took pleasure in doing dainty work. In 

 one that I have the forward part measures oh inches from 



