The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-13
NUMBER 80.
Never Do 1t.

a lady's lady friends Friendship should
be encouraged, not discouraged.
| Never tell all you know to stranger,
even if he regale you never so copiously
with his affair. Think you he would be
more careful of your reputation than he
is of his own?
Never jam your finger in the door;
for to swear is neither brave, polite nor
wise. ..s .5 ,sg. -fs
Never ask lady to play upon the
piano, unless you intend to be polite
enough to listen to her playing. After
having talked necessarily during her
performance =t Ft ~ sszs q
Never add hypocrisy to boorishness,
by seeming to be pleased with what you
thought more contemplate than your
contemplate prattle. Own up that you
only asked her to play out of politeness,
and failed to listen out of impoliteness.
Never put the mucilage brush in your
| inkstand. True, the temptation is great;
but remember that cleanliness is next to
! godliness. @
Never attempt to write an original
| article unless your scissors are sharp.
Everybody likes an incisive writer. al
Never talk of yourself in country
where forty-odd millions of people are
bent on talking of themselves.
Never ask a question unless you intend
to pay attention to the answer. There
is no pleasure in life comparable to the
| joy of airing our knowledge. Give your
friend chance to air his. He will love
you with a love SURPRISING that of
! woman.
Never say that you have heard before
what your friend has evidently taken
great pleasure in telling you. His de-
light at finding you equally well informed
with himself may not be so great as you
had imagined.
Never look gift horse in the mouth
while the donor is present. After he is
gone it is duty. The proper study for
the horseman is the horse. ...s.r
Never tell secret to a woman. IF
you can't keep it yourself, why expect
she will be able to keep-it to herself? al
Never fret about to-morrow's weather.
If to-day's weather is pleasant, enjoy it.
You may be so fortunate as to escape to-
morrow's storm by getting smashed on
the railroad or blown up on the steam
boat. 7s@ 'i-H rr
Never-that is, hardly-beg pardon,
but wonder this did not happen Pinafore,
History of Hats. ssl4l Il d
How few of us ever trace the history
of the hat. The felt hat is as old as
Homer. The Greeks made them in skull
caps, conical, truncated, narrow, OF
broad-brimmed. The Phrygian bonnet
has an elevated cap without brim, the
apex turned over in front. It is known
as the cap of Liberty. An ancient
figure of Liberty in the times OF
Anthonius Livy, A. D. 115, holds the
cap in the right hand. The Persians
wore soft hats; plumed hats were the
head-dress of the Syrian caps of Xerxes;
the broad-brim was worn by the Mace
donian Kings. Castor means a beaver
The Armenian captive wore plug hat
The merchants of the fourteenth century
wore Flanders beaver. Charles VII
in 1869, wore felt-hat lined with red
and plumed. The English men and
women in 1910 wore close woollen OF
knitted caps; two centuries ago hats
were worn in the house. Pepys, in his
diary, in 1864 wrote, September, 1864
got severe cold because he took offhis hal
at dinner and again, in January, 1865
he got another cold by sitting too long
with his head bare, to allow his wife's
maid to comb his hair and wash his ears
And Lord Clarendon, in his essay, speak
ing of the decay of respect due the aged
says. g that in his younger days he nevel
kept his hat on before those older thar
himself, except at dinner" In the thir.
teenth century Pope Innocent ~
allowed the Cardinals the use of the
scarlet cloth hat. The hats now in use
are the cloth hat, leather hat, silk hat
opera hat, spring-brim hat, and straw
| hat