Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-04
THE TIL EATER HAT
Some Women Sensibly Wear Little Bonnets
or Remove Their Hats.
Mrs. CIeveland's Good Sense should he
Initiated by Others-SOme AtrOcf-
ties Noticed Last Night.

A careful examination of female heads
at Albaughs and the National last night
revealed as many, possibly, as two dozen
in each house which had no covering on
them saw womans browning glory, said
browning glory, 1t may be stated for the
benefit of those who wear bonnets, being
hair. Besides these two dozen, there were
possibly hundred who wore the proper
theater hat. Now, this is paltry showing
among six or seven hundred fairly intelli-
gent and Christian women. Many of the
small hats had on them pompons, or what
ever they call those little pin feather
atrocities that stick up into the atmos-
phere and cut the line of vision like
knife, and cause almost as much twisting
and craning of necks behind them as IL
they were Opaque screens set up between
the victim and the stage. 1t was pleas
ure at times to see some woman in a big
hat sitting behind one similar to her own.
and II may have had some good influence
upon her, but II is doubtful.
Mrs. CleveIand's Good Sense.
Mrs. Cleveland, in a box at Albaugh's.
wore dainty CONNECTION Qsn't that Par
isian for bonnetO in black, which was
not more than an inch in height at the
summit, and there were no pompons or
other fiubdubs on 1t. If the first lady in
the land can wear that kind of bonnet,
what's the matter with the second and
third doing likewise? In some instances
the hats were at least eighteen inches in
breadth, and were from four to six inches
in elevation. One woman had a bunch Of
red artificial roses on her headpiece that
was big enough for a floral tribute to a
popular star from a millionaire admirer.
Another wore a black velvet layout as
big a building lot in one of the subdi-
visions, with a bunch of ostrich feathers
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the parent bird intense suffering when
they were rudely distracted from 1t. Then
there were bows of ribbon in impossible
places, md punches of all kinds of flowers,
and piles Of dry goods like remnant coun-
ter displays, and such a collection OF styles
and sizes that the senses were confused
and the .ye made weary. In pleasing con-
trast to this were the heads of the men.
On them only hair, and even the hair was
gone from the manly heads of many. Now,
why do the women do this? Is 1t because
they have only one hat each that is fit to
be worn? Or Is II that they are utterly re-
CARELESS of the comfort and rights Of 9TH
ers who pay their money to a per-
Torrance? Or is IT they are so vain that
they will wear what they think is most be-
coming to them? If 1t Is this species Of
vanity, they might far better go bare
headed. for the prettiest woman in the
world in a high hat at the theater is an
object to produce any other feelings than
those of admiration.
What May BE the Result.
The managers OF the theaters are help
less in the matter. for they cannot demand
that proper hats be worn, and IL the wo-
men themselves do not exercise a little
thought and charity the public must go ON
suffering until public sentiment has
reached a point where endurance ceases to
be virtue, and people will go to the play
houses armed with clubs to knock the Of
Tending hats into the middle of next week.
May that time soon come, or, better, may
the women come to realizing sense of
the situation and graciously recognize that
some other people have rights that they
should respect.