Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-06
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Hn1uHO - - - ~ = - " 49,
pl.ipine - Woaaa's Hsadgsas.
There is something extremely fati-
ruing in all this talk about the big hats
& the theater. From every point come
.hafts Of rilicule and even abuse to the
woman who wears to the theater bon
net larger than q saucepan. Those who
make all this hubbub are the very ones
who have the least right to. and III
prove it.
II ia generally man-plain. horrid,
Grabbed man--who finds 90 much fault
/ with our hats. Now. don't mind tell
| inr YOU that it is this same man who does
more to spoil lady's evening at the the
ater' than all the hats in Christendom.
You know him as well as do, for you
meet him at every theater. He seems to
have nothing in the world to do but to
go to playhouses and cause people to
wish they had never been born.
This man, whom we all know. never
gets TO the thoater until the play has be
run. And, what is more astonishing
and even more aggravating. he always
selects n seat midway between two aisles
and in the most crowded section OF the
house.
| Down the aisle he-this horrid man
tramps, every step drowning at least
two lines of the dialogue. At his row
he stops and gloats over his victims as
| ne counts how many there are. Adjust
ing his overcoat SO that it will hit every
hat in the line and dishevel every bang
under those hats, he begins his mad
plunge for his seat. His cane he carries
50 that it will catch every thread of lace
| ar every ornament, while he so handles
his feet as to take an inch of patent
leather off every shoe.
| Gained his seat and he casts his eye
along the wreck he has wrought, looks
into the face Of every auditor in tue
house, bangs up his chair, then down
again, throws his overcoat over 1t so
that it will hit the victim behind him,
and down he planks himself witha grant
of sublime satisfaction at having for
once in his lifo made his presence felt by
scores.
This is the individual who usually
makes remarks about big hats III thol-
tiers.
And am going to tell you how this
nbiouitous acquaintance of ours was
most beautifully sat on" the other even
ing.
1t was at down town theater. The
prettiest, daintiest, most exquisitely
dressed little girl came in. Her hat was
perfect dream, though I'll admit It was
rather large, yet it was SO bewitclllngly
becoming that only brute could have
breathed word against it. The gil
had hardly seated herself and arranged
a rebellious lock of hair that persisted
| in looking into her eyes, when this hor-
rid brute Of man of whom | i ave been
speaking gave vent to the following piece
Of pure, unauthorized brutishness:
| ..Oh, Lord. How am l expected to see
through that haty'
He rather flattered himself, think, il
he imagined the girl had any eXpectn-
tons in regard to him when she put the
hat on. However, dubious look passed
| over her face, she hesitated n moment,
| then raised her hands. unpiuned her hit
aud took it OFF with "A deep sigh that
should have gone straight to that mans
| heart. N1t lntI luTIltti dItiHl anu
with charming smile, which went to
show that n woman never does anything
| by halves, she asked:
| lis that better now
| And this horrid man, this foe to hats,
Gangs laces and ornaments, this tram
pier ON rights and patent leather shoes,
had the boldness to say that he believed
| I,o ,roI,l1 90 ont ~ "a friend
| The girl? Oh, she held her hat through
out the performance.-Blan Tasting
! in San Francisco Examiner.