Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-11
HATS AND HEADACHE.
Average Weight of wornan's Head Gov
ering and Its Eject on the Brain.


ering and Its Effect on the Brain.
With all its other sins the fashionable
big hat is charged with being the cause
Of an endless number of headaches.
st is owing to it's weight" en-
claimed doctor. FLATS that press
down on the forehead with u mass of
weight in front are particularly to
blame. It's hard to get woman to
admit that her hat is too heavy, but it is
10. When you consider that woman's
brain, on the average, weighs about "A
ounces, or four ounces less than
mans, and that she puts on hat
Weighing half as much as the brain,
while the mans hat weighs hardly one
quarter what his wife's hat does, it's In
teresting. I think sometimes that
probably the less woman's brain
weighs the more does the hat she puts
bn it."
With a pair of scales number of
millinery establishments were inspect
ed. In big Sixth avenue millinery de-
partment, where imported hats are the
rule and few head coverings under ten
dollars are to be found, the heaviest
hats that could be found were brought
out. The heaviest was white felt
braid. sailor shape, with a pyramid
shaped mass Of flowers made to rest on
the corner of the brow and cushion Of
violets under the. brim. 1t weighed
II ounces easily. A big hat that had an
eight-inch brim and was heavily loaded
apparently with jet rope edge and
Jet around the crown only tipped eight
ounces. The department manager
smiled as he said:
Cali is not jet that shines this year.
It is q substitute to reduce the weight
Of the hats"
A hat. all Of chinchilla fur, that
looked heavy enough to prove load
weighed only eight ounces. A little
steel bonnet, the size Of hand, weighed
nine ounces. The average weight OF
half dozen big hats of the worst the
alter 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.
''It's nonsense, 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 is
ono, for instance"
And she selected an immense black
hat in one of the new French shapes.
1t lowered foot In the air, with a
mass OF white plumes, About the
crown was q twist Of white tulle and
some velvet. The hat measured at least
a foot one way and considerably more
from back to front. On any but a
large head 1t would have looked top
heavy. On the scales 1t weighed only a
scant four ounces and the manager Of
the place smiled tr4umphantly, Only
one hat in the entire shop weighed "A
ounces. One weighed 12, but appar-
entity the bigger the hat and price the
less 1t weighed. Prices Of such creations
never drop. They rise.
Down in Grand street everything ran
the other way. A real Grand street hat,
properly trimmed, with the requisite
stylish number OF wingsand ornaments
of various kinds-a hat as big as the
four-ounce Fifth avenue hat-hardly
weighed less than II ounces. 1t was
easy to find them weighing 10 and 20
ounces. Something ''most magnif-
cent" which cost $40, was the champion
heavyweight at "a ounces, and WAS war
ranted to give any but a giantess or
woman with constitution Of iron a
chronic headache.-N. 7. World.