Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-04
Hats.

Hats.
The hat the climax of the dress Of
man. 1t finishes. him Ttgtobs him
off. A man can metamorphose him
self by a change of his hat sooner than
by that Of any other garment. what
IS & knight without a helmet, Turk
without a turban, Bonapart without
cooked hat9 Would a trapper
be trapper without wolf-skin
cap with the tail dangling be-
tween his shoulders Where would
the stage Yankee be without the bell.
crowned hat! What would become Of
the ideal Ethiopian queen of the plan.
tation without a red bandanns It
isn't the tailor that makes the man,
neither nine nor nineteen of them. It
is the halter. The broad-brim is es-
sential to the Quaker, and these mod
ern friends that wear plug hats may be
just as good, and for aught we know
better than their fathers who wore
broad-brims, but we wouldn't give two
cents for follower of Fox in mod
ern hat, All the picturesqueness is gone
as soon as the broad brim hat vanishes,
and if you take away the pictures,
queness the Quaker is no better than
anyother good Christian. Our advice
to young Quakers is to stick to their
wide hats. We like variety. When
our eyes are weary of the black Chin
ney pot hat in Broadway, we like to
meet a rosy-cheeked young Irish priest
in his priests cap. 1t relieves the
eye. gs-.s-4
What anybody wants with mod
crn beaver we do not know. What
demon of ugliness prompted the first
inyeRtor of the things to introdue
them p There is no form or come1f.
ness tor them that they should be
made or worn. There is not grace
full line in their contour. In vain the
ingenious hatters change them and
seek out new devices, widening them
atop and turning them up at.the sides
and then reversing the process. All
is vanity and veXation of spirit. They
are ugly, first. last, and all the time
ugly continually. These cylindrical
''stove-p pipe, ''nail-kegr things the
boys call them. have nothing that
can recommend them. They are cold
in winter. They are hot in sumner
They destroy the hair. They do not
shelter the face They do not p3otees
the eyes. They disfgure the man, and
they want no quality possible in hat
that could make them more uncom-
Portable.
The very glossiness of the hfgh.
crowned top dressing is disadvan.
| tage. Instead of sheltering the wear.
Yer, as they pretend to, they have to be
sheltered. Ten drops of rain are sufl-
cicnt to impair their luster. The wind
has every chance at them. They are
too delicateto travel in. They are too
nice to wear around home. The are
generally unfit for use, and worse
than worthless for ornament
What a martyr well dressed man is
to his hat, He dusts it with a soft
brush bought on purpose that he may
not scratch its surface He cherishes
its gloss with his sleeve and his pock-
ct handkerchief. In a crowd he gives
his whole attention to the preservation
of his beaver. Al his destination he
deliberates where he shall put it. In
| u rain he shields it. In the cars he
bandboxes it. And in a wind-oh! in
a wind, how he holds it! Not too
loosely, lest it it escape. Not with one
hand, but with both. And if it should
| escape fearful CtIdSGFOpHea HOW
it rolls How does the nice eccentric
ofthe brim give it a graceful limp, like
tho gait OF G"ecian- bender! How it is
now poised on the brim like veloci-
pede, and now rolling the glossy crown
on the dirty Sidewalk! And as the
painting owner tries to seize it, how
does it elude him Inevitably it makes
a graceful curve, as if by a nice calcula-
ton of sins and co-sius and tangerts,
toward the mud-puddle or the gutter.
Aud-Mhen the painting proprietor of a
hat, who 6as-4iyed solely for that hat.
wholly concentrated to the welfare Of
his beaver, when at last he claps i'm
patient hands upon the truant whirli-
gig, he is like the boy that caught the
butthrfiy. The gloss of his nine dol
lar beaver has disappeared. And the
shape. 1t is now that most pitiful of
ohjects-a shocking bad hat.-Heartk
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