Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1850-12-19

| SOMETHING ABOUT HATs-A clever wr;te, i, i. nov
them paper very truly remarks that as long &c there
are heads there must be hats; and so long 90 heads
are paeeo on the exposed position which they now &C.
cupy, thefe must ne some protection for them Now
"u 'ls IS quite raona reasonable and proper; but we
must INSIST mat TINS protection for the head shall be or
namental as we'll as useful To our mind the ba.
more plainly characterzes the man than anv other ar
'ce OF Dress there something too in the manner of
wearing It, which distinguishes alike the gentleman the
man OF business and the genus known as one of the
swell mob" Gentlemen who otherwise dros, ;,h
TASTE and discretion, do not scruple to sci Of de6po
he laws OF fashion, when they choose hat. and there
ssureiy no article OF dress about which taste varias
80 widely. The streets the Theatre land even the balls
OF Legislation are filled with queer shaped. odd I'M.
comfortable looking things designed to snnnIv
the place OF hats. Now, shocking bad hap re-
out not always, denotes, in the language of
i'oo Logic, that its wearer has "poekets to Ieto
or may be fairly assumed that no man of means will
pefsst IN wearing hat which has become obnoxious
ny reason OF lis antiquity to his friends or subject of
J' III ie iaie crowd There are however executions
10 all rules and we shall proceed to note one at least to
TINS. Passing down Main street, few mornings since
we saw Santa Fe SLOUGH bobbng about the auction
''oies upon close observation, we at once decided in
our own mind, that its owner had made the Jour.
ney from the Salt Lake in Utah. to this civ undsr No
o'ef sheiter than that afforded by that hat and had
consequently become attached to it. He appeared to
NC man OF some means, for we observed that wher
ever ne Santa Re hat appeared in the crowd there the
o'uuiig was most spirited. True, the fierceook-
my wearer encountered all sides the ma smiles
OF numberess wags, but dared openly to ieer the
wearer Of that hat Nothing short of instant jmmo.
lation would have been apparently the fate of anv
such offender! We left the crowd, with the full deter
mnation OF sending copy of the Chimes" containing
the hat advertisements of Messrs. Richard Moore &
90. and j. H. Anthony to the wearer of the Santa Fe
SLOUGH, provided we could learn his name and adj
Dress
Thank heaven, we live in free country where heads
and hats can take whatever they please provided
there be infringement OF the statutes far be il from
US, them to find fault with anybody tor wearing queer
looking chapeau But new heads seem to be inds-
pensabe to the progress of mainland who shall place
limit to their procreation)-hats will therefore always
question OF some moment, with men of taste, to know
where the best hats may be obtained in this CITY, We
answer, without hesitation, that the JENNY LIND Hat
manufactured by Messrs. Richard Moore l. Co.. at 1877
Broad street, is the handsomest article iu that line we
have seen this season. 1t is in reality superb hat SUI
perior to the "Genin" article of the same STYLE
We are not advised to tie determination of Messrs
Moore & Co., touching the Prize Ticket to the Lind
concert Tomorrow nght but this do know that their
Jenny Lind Hats cannot be excelled See their adyer
tisement in TO days +" Times .