Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-29

Ingenious philosopher VINO Doesn't say
How He Knows
P.rls san.
Many people have wondered how it is
that an ordinary locking colored man, at
TIE door Of q hotel dinlng-room, can tell
every msu hat as he N out. A hun
bred or more guests may hand their hats to
tie cclored man, and he will put them
away on the rack, and every mar is handed
to- right hat when he comes out. 1t seems
wonderful. The owner Of the hat can hard
Il pick out dis own, if left to himself, but
tie colored boy never fall. The facts are
iha. the boy is a good deal Of a caricaturist,
In biz mind. He has a great Imagination
For Instance a fist man comes in. The BOY
takes his hat, and looks at the man, and
inagines that the fat man is i've times as
Ia, as he is, and IS he lays the hat down he
can See the mous'rosity in the nat, and all
the time fatty is eating his dinner the boy is
occasionally looking at the imaginary pic
ture in in the hat. aud when the man starts
10 come ont OF the room the boy looks az
him, sees him seem 10 enlarge 10 the size OF
an elephant. and he is so identified IN the
mind Of the boy with that particular hat
that the BOY has his hand on 1t instinctively
before man is near enough TO take it II
q slim man comes in, with a white hat, the
boy looks at him, and the man begins to
stretch out ia the boys Imagination Ike
a telegraph pole, and the mar aud the hat
are so united in his mind that he could not
miss it it he tried. If a mau has q pecu-
| aritv, like a red nose, a Cross-eye, a bald
head, red hair or whiskers, a war; on on his
face. or ANYTHING OF that kind, that parricu-
AR thing is 80 enlarged and caricatured in
the mind Of the boy, in connection with the
hat, that the two became i~nseparable, aud
when the man comes out ofthe room, the
particular feature that struck the boy when
the man went in 10 take possession OF him,
and he is drawn towards the particular hat
that is associated with the feature. 1t q
man comes in who has no particular feature
of prominence, the bog will think q moment
and il the man has an umbrella, he viii
think how the man would look il he should
run that umbrella into him and spread II.
The idea Is so ludicrous that when the man
comes GU; the BOY will think OF the spread
umbrella and smile at the lidlcrousness OF
he scene aud hand the umbrella and hist to
Il owner, and he goes away com
o~limenuug the boy for his great brain,
when he would not feel compi-
reuted 9, all Il lie knew what q guy the 0oy
had made &C him in his mind. The colored
hat Nov would seem to have q Zceat brain,
a mind that seems unequslled among men,
AID wher a statesman reflects that he could
rot take the boys place, and tell 4 hat
from another. be is liable 70 associate that
49, -;.b .ha idea that with proper encOur-
sgement and advantages he would become
! one Of tie worlds great ones, out ne would
not. His place is beside q batrack: Place
him anywhere else and he wouldn't BE-
worth q row Of pins. He has q snack OF
| lccairr hats on the right heads, but ne
| couldn't learn to DO much OF anything Else.
Deserving of Confidence There Is no ar
tic q nhieh so rich deserves the entire oonhdenej
OF he community Is BEuwN's BE"NCHjALIK"'"1'
1uo,e suffering from Asthmstic and Bronchial DIS
ra,fs. Coughs ard Coils, SHOULD try them' PIG
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