The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
HATS AND HEApAclr
Average Weight of Woman,s Ba.,
 ering and Its Effect on tba ps eos.

Average Weight of woman's Hs.a
 ering and Its Effect on the Dra,. sa c0'.
 With all its other sins the fasb;a
 big hat is charged with being the aaOls as of an endless number of headaoh sauss
 .'It is owing to its weiobt claimed a doctor. Hats that Gr down on the forehead with m.p p'es weight in front are particulasaa ot blame. It's hard to get wom. 10 admit that her hat is too heavy br..,!0 sa 10 so. When you consider that a r,os brain, on the average, weighs ahsns ounces, or four ounces less tSs mans, and that she puts on weighing half as much as tho nas while the mans hat weighs hardl, u' quarter what his wife's hat does ;..' O.e' teresting. 1 think sometimes :, m probably the less a woman's h us' weighs the more does the hat she sa. aa on it." fu"
 With a pair of scales a numhar millinery establishments were ;nsn. ed. In big Sixth avenue millinerr SSs partment, where imported hats ars ~ s'' rule and few head coverings unde, ~ ' dollars are to be found, the bao,,' hats that could be found were bron~s' cut. The heaviest was a whita sl,s braid, sailor shape, with a pyramid shaped mass of flowers made to rsst the corner of the brow and cushiora :. violets under the brim. It we,.hs, 12 ounces easily. A big hat that bads ss eight-inch brim and was heavily loaa.a apparently with jet rope edge sos jet around the crown only tipped eiob, ounces. The department monass. smiled as he said:
 "All is not jet that shines this ve., It is substitute to reduce the weicb, of the hats"
 A kat, ali of chinchilla fur. tb,, looked heavy enough to prove loaa weighed only eight ounces. A Gtns steel bonnet, the size of a hand, weicbsd nine ounces. The average weight If half dozen big hats of the worst ths. ater class was only eight ounces. Over on Fifth avenue, in shop from which the best-dressed women get the most exclusive fashions, the manager smiled Il
 "It's nonsense, 1 am sure, about headaches and big hats" she said "Why, we use every art to decrease the weight of these big hats. We even use willow for foundations. We often change and alter hats with just that in view until the largest hats will be lighter than the smaller ones. Here's one, for instance"
 And she selected an immense black hat in one of the new French shapes. It lowered a foot in the air, with mass of white plumes. About the crown was twist of white tuie and some velvet. The hat measured at least n foot one way and considerably mon from back to front. On any but large head it would have looked top heavy. On the scales it weighed onlys | scant four ounces and the manager of | the place smiled triumphantly. Only one hat in the entire shop weighed II ounces. One weighed 12. but appar ently the bigger the hat and price the less it weighed. Prices of such creations never drop. They rise.
 Down in Grand street everything ran the other way. A real Grand street bat properly trimmed, with the requisite stylish number of wings and ornaments of various kinds--a hat as big as ths four-ounce Fifth avenue hat-hardlF weighed less than IA ounces. It was easy to find them weighing 19 and ounces. Something most magnIr cent" which cost $l9. was the champion heavyweight at 24 ounces, and was war ranted to give any but Q giantess ofs woman with q constitution of iron chronic headache.-N. Y. World.