Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-05
COURTESY OF DOPING THE HAT.

ALI Jewish congregations worship with
their heads covered; go do the Quakers,
although st. Paul's injanotions on the
matter are clearly condemnatory of the
practice. The Puritans of the Common.
wealth would seem to have kept their
hats on, whether preaching or being
preached to, since Pepys notes hearing
a simple clergyman exclaiming against
men wearing their hats in the church;
and year afterward 1882 writes:
ITO the French Church in the Savoy,
and where they have the Common Pray or
Book read in French, and which never
saw before, the minister do preach with
his hat of. suppose in further con-
formity With our church."
his church going subjects by following
Dutch custom, and keeping his head
covered in church; and when 1t did
please him to doff his ponderous hat
during the service, he invariably donned
il az the preacher mounted the pulpit
stairs.
When Bossuet. at the age of fourteen,
treated the gay fellows of the Hotel de
Rambouillet to midnight sermon, Vol.
taire sat it out with bis hat on, but, I'm
covering when the boy prsacher had
finished, bowed low before him. saying:
"Sir, l never heard man preach at
once 80 early and so late"
As token of respect, uncovering the
head is one Of the oldest of courtesies.
Says an ancient rhyme:
"If you any good man or woman meet
Avail thy hood to him or her
Nd hiA Ga dana
Shakspeare's Osric takes no heed OF
Hamlet's suggestion that he should put
his bonnet to its proper use, "'tis for
the head" and when urged again to
cover. replies: "Nay, in coed faith, fol
mine ease, in good faith" Massiueer's
Wellborn, meeting Marrall in the open
country. asks him: "Ts't for your ease
you keep your hat off ?" And that wor-
shipper of the rising sua answers:
Ease. and it like your worship!
/ hope JACK Marrall shall not live so
long,
To prove himself such an unnannerly
beast,
Though ii hail hazelnuts, as to be covered
When your worship's present"
In Charles the First's time even the
ladies dotted their head gear in saluta
ton. The writer Of Twill Baenall's
Ballet" says:
"Both round and short they wear their
hair,
Whose length should woman grace;
Loose, like themselves, their hats they
wear,
And when they come in place,
Where oourlship and compliments must
They DO IL, like men, with cap and
knee"
Lameutine the decay Of respect "a
age, Clarendon tells us that in his youne
days he never kept his hat on his head
before his elders. except at dinner.
curious exception. that, to modern no
lions Of politeness, but 1t was the oBston
to sit covered At meals down to the be
ginning Of the eighteenth century. Sir
John Finett, deputy master of oeremo
MES Ct the ooart Of King James th,
First, was once much puzzled as &
whether the Prince of Wales should si
covered or no ct dinner in the presenos
OF the sovereign, when foreign smbas
sador was one of the guests; since th,
latter, e. the representative Of king
was not expssted to vail his bonnet
Giving James q hint Of his difficulty
bis Majesty disposed Of IL, when ID,
time came, by discovering his bead TO
little while An example all presen
we're bound TO follow; and then, puttinl
on his hat again. he requested the prime
and the ambassador to do likewise.
Hats need not be raised here" 90, q
is said. runs notice in one Of Nurem
bere's streets. Hats must be raise<
here" should have been inscribed oil
the kremlin gateway. where Q govern
nent ofisial used to stand to comps
pssseFs by 10 remove their hats, becaus
under that gate the retreatinQ army o
Napoleon withdrew from Moscow.