The record-union., 1896-10-25

Twinkle twinkle, little hat,
How | wonder what you're at!
Poised on heads of DANES so high,
The observed of every eye.
When the actors tragic get,
And all eyes with tears are wet,
Those behind you blindly rage
You alone their sight engage.
Twinkle, twinkle, little hat,
Soon you'll not know where you're at.
We condemn you to a man,
Twinkle. twinkle, while you can!
The Carter benefit concert is so long
past that it would be out Of place to
enter into detail concerning that truly
mammoth affair, unless indeed it be to
remark upon it's excellence in every
particular and the success it achieved
financially.
The number given by Master Darwin
Wood excited much comment. One
could not but remark the wonderful
amount of ability pent UP within his
small baby frame. OF so diminu.ive
stature that he had to be lifted upon
the organ-stool, from which he could
scarcely reach the pedals with the tips
OF his tiny toes, he yet pedaled like
veteran. Certainly, such a love of the
divine art, taken in conjunction with
proper care and education, ought to
make of this boy something of which
his relatives will yet have every reason
to be very proud.
The hat question was under the fire
of much argument that night. One
heard it discussed in all it's bearings
OF, every side, and to the credit of the
deserving be it said the majority of
our women were in favor of small, un-
cbtrusive head dressing, diminutive
toques or bare heads. Many women
who had never done SO before, in re-
sponse to the demand, or rather re-
quest, that women come without hats or
remove them when seated, appeared
obligingly in lace fichus or fascinators,
which they removed upon entering. The
crowd was so dense that the aisles,
thronged half way up to the front with
people, obstructed the view of those
sitting at the back of the church. and
many We're the remarks overheard
that We're intensely amusing and
served to show effectually how public
opinion turned
It's bad enough for them to stand
in the aisles,'' remarked one young wo-
man-who had worn a hat herself but
had removed it-"but when it comes to
keeping their hats on / consider it a
base imposition upon a forbearing and
suffering public-here usher." At
this a pretty girl usher bent forward
over the seat and asked, What is it?'
Won't you please have the large wo-
man in the yellow silk waist removed ?
She obstructs my view"
'Oh, what can / do?" wildly implored
the bewildered girl. Wait; I'll see if
/ can't find somebody to do it who
has more nerve than l."
But the woman in the yellow waist,
growing weary Of standing, finally
went out, to the intense relief of all
concerned, whose eyes unfortunately
did not possess the power of the
Roentgen rays.
rs that woman going to keep her
hat on all night, 1 should like to know ?"
inquired another. II can't see a blessed
thing. Won't somebody please ask her
to take it off? l removed mine"
A young lady who stood in one of
the aisles, grasping the situation, very
sensibly removed a dainty bit of head
gear, and handing it to a lady who had
been fortunate enough to secure a seat,
asked her to put it safely away out Of
the crush for her, which she did.
'Wil 1t bite, do you Think" asked a
lady whom the prodigious hat in front
Cf her had forced her to stand in order
to see the performers, of the lady next
her, as the tips and aigrettes on the
aforementioned hat tickled her wag-
gishly on the nose two or three times
in succession before she finally gave
up and sat down.
An immense black Gainsborough
loaded down with tips, and belonging
TO a well-known young lady whose slim
figure seemed hardly in keeping
with the ponderousness Of her hat,
sailed Independently up the middle aisle
and asserted it's contempt for other
peoples rights and public opinion in
general by remaining fixed aggressive
ly for the entire evening upon the head
of its empty-pated owner. 1t WASH I
smart, not a bit Of it, although the
young woman was heard to publicly
express her determination to snap her
fingers in the face of press and public
alike. l don't think she impressed
anyone Of these people, to whom she
so expressed herself, with the wit of
her Intentions, particularly If they hap
pened to have been placed anywhere In
close proximity to that hat.
And looking about that vast audi
epce, the material demonstration of
the kind-hearted and determined ef-
forts of the young men who had put
through successfully In so short time
so prodigious a scheme, noticed that
women of reputed good sound sense
that are capable of progressive thought
In any worthy line. were invariably the
ones who came with barred heads or the
smallest OF toques.