The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-28
OPEN LETTER TO LADIEs OF TEXAS

Ladies' Beaver and Felt Hass-where
and How They are nade-A Dallas
AiiIiuer Hunting wooden Nu'mess
and white Oak Hams in COnnectt-
cut.
TO The Editor OF the HERALD;
Toe ladies of Texas will doubtless be
pleased to know something relating TO the
coming styles in hats and bonnets tor fs'l and
winter wear. For early fall wear; Straws
in porcupine, satin braid porcupine, Canton &,
Milan, pedal and fancy straWs will be used
The Berlin and Czarins, with their variations
under different names, will DO extensively
used. The satin porcupine Derby is another
of the favorites; two large plumes run
around either side Of the crown of the Berlin,
brim faced with satin, plush or velvet.
to suit taste of wesrer. Ombras, plsiIs,
and stripes will mix with plain colors
for ascendency in satin, silks, plushes and
velyets as the material. Felt hats, derbeys
and nappy beavers, will all hold high favor
with dame fashion volsires. The first felt
hats ever made in Americe were made in
the town of Danbury, and among other
wonders the ssmS town produced the Dan-
bury News mao whose facetious writings
tckled tha risibbles OF the reading public,
from Maine to Texas TIE town of Dan
bury hsstwalVe manufactures of felt hats
One of the manufactures alone, rTeedy end
Co. employ 1000 hands. | next visited
the town of Bethel three miles from Dan.
bury. Bethel is noted as being nat factory
and birth place Of 2. 4. Brnum
the great Snowman. With pride
the inhabitants point out the venerable
vet unpretentiouS abode hid behind half a
dozen stately weeping willows where z. I.
Bsrnum frat slipped with infsntils lips the
milk (of human kindness) cracked his toy
whip and developed to be the king of the
saw dust ring in America He has just made
present to his native town OF $4,000
fountain, but it was ladies' hats that went
to see, and by the way, everybody that lives
in that town is born halter by trade, they
take to it like ducks TO water, the children
20 to the hat factories nearly as soon as
they take to solid diet. So men women
and children make hats in Bethel, and
they make something else too,
and that is money. Through
the courtesy of Mr.. Short was shown
through Short Bros spacious factory, the
different grades Of fur from which hats are
made, and conducted through the various
apartments, where the fur is cut from hide,
next il Is carroted and then blown, body
formed, hardened, sized, shaved, dried, nap
ping the body, blocking, nap whipping
scalding, pressing. strspping and sundry
other manipulstions before ready to ship
For making the derby the beaver nap is left
of and the body is sized, dried. shaved
stiffened, set, blocked, colored, washed
dried. squared up, dried again, brim furled,
lined. bound and banded, and it requires q
skilled hand for each separate work. A
single hat passing through no less than four
teen hands before finished, and even that Ii
not the end, for A. A Pearson ships them
to Texas and has skilled novelists
to use the latest fabrics in fitting
them to adorn the fair ladies of all Texas,
and the Aforesaid A A Pearson would take
this occasion 10 whisper in the ear OF the Ia
dies that he has shipped for their especia
use not only the foregoing styles, but oil thu
novelties in London round hats and PAri
made bonnets, rich and rare shades of uniqu'
fabrics aud exquisite designs in trimming
not to be found elsewhere. Also genera
outfits for ladies in dresses, cloAks, dolmans
underwear, hosiery, gloves, ties. bridal goods
and infant goods. Ifyou want TO be happy
when you marry 90 to Pearson's for YOU
bridal outfits. Frat fool. retail, second fool
wholesale.
A. A. PEARSON, 7l2 Elm street. Dallas
TeIss.
NEWTON. CoNN, August is, 1881 e