New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-16
DAILY CRESCENT
THE KOssUTH HAT. "A LATrsR-nAY FRaoME'tr
:, ef ..ol3a=s.t BY THOMAS sNARLYIE f-'f

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| Woful times these, my friends, and strange
world gone mad ]! Faith, mad world-mad
| from heel to head! More mad in head, think q
for one, or sooth to say, more mad in hat Be-
dizened with ribbons, futtering with plumes,
| with flourish of other and transcendent vanities,
| has CLEANED this new mania of Kossuth head
gear, for now about these three weeks as /
compute. Strange fashion fantastic head COW
ering frippery all, this Kossuth hat! i New
idea, too, this fantastic tile, and a phantas1n
invented by the sons of Belial Innovation.
forsooth, on ancient, plain, segment If -stove-
pipe-head shield, worn by Brother Jonathan
not its worst feature, as | opine. Whence
cometh it, Thus saith Dame Rumor, of many
tongues s.-T'.z r. II
On board of Mississippi steamer first seen, in
hand Of excited Magyar, waving to fsh-men
|.and fsh-women--a motley mob of lunatio
Marsslloise. Next, driven out by indignant
Consul, cruising to Albion, and lastly I'd
" Gotham,'' great city, famed for Dutch and
cheese! Lastly, now infaming heads of Fill
busters, grown mad in these latter days! New
idea, this fash head gear. New in respect of
this: Round form, like pot, or helmet of ancient
knight-errant, smashed fiat in unlucky joust |.
Bedecked, too, and bedizened with broad ribbon
and feather, according to the fanSles and the van
tiles Flashy all, and vain phantasmagoria, be-
dight with feather, plucked from goose or turkey
cock-not ostrich, as some pretend Not unlike
goose, low waddling, prone near ground, seem
eth this man-goose, high towering, decked in
borrowed plume, but much like, take it, and
will maintain in these lunatic days-lunatic,
l opine, not like Ate or the furious Three, but
because struck and wrong in head Thus
writes to me Muggins, in his own quaint way:
"Odd bedizenment this, the Kossuth hat More
becoming as birds that fly, or mayhap, boys,
kept back by anxious mother in Juvenile small
clothes, seeming in these changeful times, with
rampant feather stuck on caput, like fabled
jackdaw in plumes Of peacock vainly strutting."
Good idea this, you say, of Muggins, howbeit
oddly expressed. ..l... .o.... 81.
Thus much will we say for this Kossuth hat /:
Commedable in some things; good in respect of
Hftness-ftness to calibre of head, because light
light and soft, not threatening hard contact with
tpia mater, or brain covering inside. Good,
too, for pillow at times, or ramming in pocket
lat opera or concert. No further A new
mania is it; latter-day phantasmagoria, this
Magyar hat, and seed of intervention thrown
broadcast for Jonathan to pick at and choke
himself Bloomerism and Mummyism being
rampant heretofore A trenching, we take it,
and war on woman's rights. Woman's rights,
because mounting feather and ribbon, peculiar
in times past to bonnet and head-dress. An
absolute trenching is it, mayhap, in revenge for
Bloomerism, now, alas carried too high for
endurance of mortal man!
( In good sooth, q lunatic world! and we stand
ing here on this tide and shoal of time, with the
Gulf Of Foreign Intervention ism, and Mummy
ism, and Kossuth- -hat-ism beneath us, boiling.
eddying, seething, simmering, fzzing, to be
quenched, alas, no more for ever!