Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-08-17
THE TALL SILK HAT.
IT COSTS A SMALL FORTUNE FOR A
FELLOW TO DRESS UP TO ONE.
A Few Notes on This Deadly Head Cover
ing In General, with a Word About
Judge Crabtree's First One In Particular.
An Experlenea On the Newburg Boat.

Judge SfablItt a ATnA OhS III aitASAAf1h'
An Experience en- the New burg Boat.
You look sad, observed Major Dodge
30 his partner as the latter strayod into the
office
Il am always sad after dropping in at
the hatter's to have my hat ironed, an
swered Judge Crabtroe. There are sad
scenes enacted in any place where silk hats
IRE sold "
'Still, " said the major, Il have stood
among these heartrending scenes, the floor
all sloppy with the tears OF the wretches
about me, and been comparatively un-
moved.
You may make light Of this thing if
you want to" returned the judge, but |
insist that there is to me something inf
nitely saddening in seeing a young man
buying his first silk hat, with smile on
his face and the proud fires of youthful
buoyancy burning in his eye. He knows
not what he does-that he is forging tho
first link in chain which he can never
rend asunder; that he is forming a habit
which will cling TO him so long as he lives
Little does he realize that silk hats cost So
apiece, and that the shape changes twice a
year. / Just saw Snickott, that young
clerk in the Office Of Billydick, Puffer,
Popkins & Smith, take the first downward
step Poor fellow, he doesn't know that
he will soon be paying 500 for suit OF
clothes in his effort 10 dress up to his silk
hat. ="
I well remember" went on Judge
Crabtrcc, how | myself first forsook the
narrow way of the low hat and entered
into the broad and easy plaiaGnce of the
silk hat Little did know that tho shape
changes twice n year, with an occasional
extra, like an evening paper il the matters
get hard up. / Went into the gilded silk
hat palace and said carclessly 10 the clerk,
silk, please, rs, and -
Your head must have been bigger then
than it is now.
cit was This happe-cl the next day
after won my first case. seven and five
ciehths l SLY, and it was a snug it, !
went out, family catching the stealthy
footballs Of the Goddess OF Fame close be-
hind ne.
Il was at this time passionately inter
O. cstcd in a young woman who afterward
married a druggist, a walking scoundrel
who wore a fur cap. had asked her to
take water czcur. ion with INC, and she
had consented. The neEU morning we
boarded an Albany day boat for NoWourg,
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