Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-26
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 tinent It is asked merely to ahow fellow interest concerning the most i'm. portant article of man's s dress and adorn- ment The declaration that s'the tailor makes the man" is slightly misleading and not altogether true, for 1t Is the hat ter that gives the important finishing touch to the attired male adult Will liam Shakespeare, speaking for Sir Francis Bacon, says:
 For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
 Had he been speaking of the modern habiliments of men he would no doubt have declared that the hat always pro claims the man. and in tones that cam not be misinterpreted. The headgear is the first and often the only portion of a mans dress that impresses an ob- server. A mans hat is to him what headline is to an article in the news paper. If it is unpleasantly shocking, we care to know nothing further of that with which it is connected; if it looks inviting we are willing to cultivate q more intimate knowledge of it's sur roundinga We can tell by it as the children of the nursery do by counting the number of buttons of the waistcoat, whether the wearer is Q
 Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief
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 Nature in one of her most intelligent moods designed the hat as the index or sort of tag to be attached to the wearer of it, whereby the world may know what and who he is without hav- ing to ask impertinent questions to satisfy its consuming curiosity.
 The hat and the manner of wearing it is the perfectly natural and inevitable product of the brain beneath it. and shows the moral and intellectual soil and seed it springs from as correctly as do the fruits and flowers of the garden or the weeds of the fence corner. More properly it may be said that the style or condition of hat may be the result l of circumstances over which the wearer i may have no control, but the manner | in which it is placed on the head is the true index to it's owners character. The same style of hat on dozen diff ferent heads may express as many pre- dominating traits of character. The ordinary black derby hat worn fairly and squarely on the head may not con- clusively prove that the owner is fair 1 and square man, but it offers no sug- gestion to the contrary. A man who | wears his hat in this manner is not ! A4uAlSdppCA Oy AAS @PRS@E&ASCS yOu intuitively arrive at the conclusion that he may be pretty decent sort of a man and you would not much hesitate to trust him in any ordinary business ca pacity. He is not above or below the common people. If he has idiosyncra- sies and freakish no tions they are not worn publicly on the sleeve nor pro claimed by the manner in which he wears his hat.
 Take the same sort of hat and set il we'll back on the head and slightly tc one side and the impression it creates on the mind of the observer is not al ways altogether hattering to the wear CT. No one would guess that the brair only partially beneath it is particularly noted for the highly practical. moral sober thoughts it coins The man un der the hat worn in this way may be wholly upright and scrupulously cor rect in his moral beh avior and again h< may not be; there exists a doubt in youl
 mind Yon feel quite sure that he is { jolly, happy-go-luclky sort of fellow who would be a pleasant companion or an outing, but you are not quite certain
 if he be the right sort of person fol your younger brother to chum with
 Still he might be, since all appearances
 are more or less deceiving.
 Any sort of hat brought down ove,
 the forehead till the brim is almost ever
 with the eyes gives the wearer a sus
 picious look, and calls to mind the ok
 Spanish sombrero-a broad, slouched
 Tapping affair-that was often loopet
 down on occasions so as to serve as mask. and was well adapted to a land ant
 age when serenades, jealousies and mid night stabbing were of common occur
 renee. You would be just little afrai'
 to meet 8 man who wears his hat in thi way in a dark, lonely place. His min' , may be the home of honest and nobl intentions, yet you doubt it, and yo1 will not fail to give yourself the benefi of that doubt The hat of the sportin
 man has an individuality that is clearl, , exclusive. There seems to hover abou . it some of the associations of its weareI One can almost see spades and diamond outlined upon it or hear the rattle 0 dice when in it's immediate vicinity. N
 wide awake observer could ever mis , take its owner to be a minister of tn x gospel or leader of the Y. NJ. c. A. | Sometimes men are not so bad q
 they are painted-not so bad even a they paint themselves. For example , callow youths will often affect the ha
 of the sporting frate. .'nity, and assun I ing an air that says, II would rather b tough than tony" endeavor to persuad themselves and the world that they ar , indeed real bad men" They remin one of the dude who, after declaring . ''I am a howible wetch of wuff, tainted dead away at the sight of B to
 pistol. The high silk hat covers a mu l titude of sinners and some saints. t has no meaning of style, that it ca
 wholly abrogate to itself It is wor f by all classes and nearly all ages Mil n isters and confidence men, deacons an e the owners of fast horses, judges an youths scarcely out of their snip perio
 all don it. d But while silk hats as class aren'