The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-06-28

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wanted them for shade"
"shoot the bate cries the youthful
street. Arab Whenever a particu-
larly fashionable and elegant tilepasses
by! His remark is an abridgement of
history, and had its origin, no doubt,
with the renowned William Tell. Moth
ing would give the street gamin more
pleasure than the destruction of this
badge of aristocracy, which TO his DEM
ocratic fancy is very offensive, for he is
reader Of character, and atonce de-
cdes in his own mind that a fine glossy
stove-pipe hat must of necessity belong
either to q dandy--a creature he de-
spises-or a newly-married man, his
legitimate prey. He knows that a man
who amounts to anything usually wears
a shocking bad hat, with dents and dis
iigurements enough to give it character,
and he has great respect for that kind
of hat, and can easily distinguish it
from the battered and disIepdtable sort
that has been out over night with a
"brickn in it. And the boy is right.
A new hat has nothing to commend 1t.
There is no individuality in it; it is sim
o. ply q plCNt VI sllltlNll1nAllSGs = lldH. filO
idiosyncrasies; no magnetism. Let a
party of gentlemen go out of a public
hall or dining room and ask for their
hats; Smith gets Browns hat. They
are both II size; both look the same out
wardly; Brown puts his on; his head at
once becomes as uneasy as the one that
wore crown; he slants it down over
his bump Of beneyolence; he tips itover
on combativeness, then he tears it off
and says: "This isn't my hat, = Just as
Smith offers his solo: 'sThis isn't my
hat They exchange, and the two hats
that are as much alike as two peas fit
their respective heads as if they had
been nodded into them. ae' ~
The hat is so much part of a man
that 1t becomes responsive to his actions
and opinions, and silent but active
expression of his thoughts. .,Hats off, I"
cries an authority, and off they go You
will know a gentleman by the manner
OF his touching his hat. 1t is royal
salute when lifted with a chivalrous
hand That business pendulum be-
tween the upper and the lower world
the elevator-may be filled with men
all with their hats on; enter, one little
weak, detenseless woman, instantly
every hat is doffed. Why, they couldn't
10 more than that for the Queen of
Englandl And it is thus they recog-
ME the queen of womanhood.
The hat is often a vehicle for the
transmission Of charities. 1t was col
ored minister who sent his hat down
from the pulpit by his ancient deacon
and received back empty The old
preacher was equal to the occasion; he
looked INTO the hat then at. his people.
Let us pray.n he said, .'and tank de
Lawd got my hat back from dis CON
gregation."
A woman's hat has no value, il can
noL be used to take up collection or
pan out boat, nor can she cover her
lace with i at church while she SAYS her
prayers like him of whom poet
S&01 Z. "a .gu
no 10 ennrch eall q, he went with head bowed down
- '''p oest"a'erproof within the crown
Women's hats are not historic if we ex-
ccept the Gainsborough hat of the lovely
countess of Devonshire. ,Rubens
painted the hat into immortality.
poltleal mass meeting is the place
70 study hats7one in Chicago, for in
stance' when Long John, Daddy Hal
pine and a few other notables were
present lt. The Republican ehat was a
soit, wide-awake; the Democratic hat a
SUN beaver with the nap crushed the
wrong way, and it had tread-on-my-
e''oal-tailss-if-you-dare air about it. It
was well pulled back and the brim
spread T. like an awning.
lpere is the wedding hat--when
gEandpa was ayoung man and it,
;;nough napless. has still an air Of hav-
ing been asleep for quarter of a CEN
Jury Jury, When a hat gets old enough it
~ Seloines picturesque and has a, pathetic
n' Saue, 100 like the hat of the old school,
li,s ms sat down in a row 10 see
'iiS WORKOUT hat come up the hill.
No,cslha NIwcs hanging up ut home-a quill
Nueu uown and sticking In the band"