The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-23

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With all its other sins the fashi0nab8c
big hat is ehargedNwith being the cause
d Va endless number Of headaches.
1T IS owing tol its weight ex-
claimed 3 DOCTOR Hats that press
down on the forehead with a mass Of
weight in front are particularly to.
blame. It's hard to get a woman to.
admit that her hatsis too heavy, butitis
so. When you consider that a wonan's
brain, on the average, weighs about A.
onnea or four ounces less than a
mans and that she puts on a hat
weighing haif as much as the brain,
while the mans nat weighs hardly one
quarter what his wife's lat does, it'sin-
teresting. I think sometimes that
probably the less a womanss brain
weighs the o does the hat she puts
on it,
With a pair Of scales a number Of
millinery establishments were inspect-
ed. In a 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 q white felt
braid, sailor shapes with a pyramid
shaped mass of flowers made to rest on
the corner of the brow and a cushion OF
~yiolets nndar the BRINE IA weighed
IL oun essiff. "a bir Rb8t had an
.s~L4 AA $3.50.
apparently with d jet rope edge and
jet around the crown only tipped eight
ounces. The department manager
smiled as he said:
"All is not jet that shines this year.
It is a substitu4e.to reduce the weight
Of the hats"
A hat, all Of chinchiIla fur, that
looked heavy enough to prove a load
weighed only eight ounces. A little
steelbonnet, the size of a hand, weighed.
nine ounces The average weight OF
half a dozen big hats of the worst the
alter class was only eight ounces. Over
on Fifth avenue, in a shop from which
the b~est-dressed women get the most
exclusive fashions, the manager smiled.
Its nonsense, I 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 nlter hats with just that in
view until the largest hats win be
lighter than the smaller n Here is
one, for instance
And she selected an immense black
hat in one of the new French shapes.
1t lowered a foot in the air, with a
mass of white plnmes. About the
crown was q twist of white tulIe and
some velvet. The hat measured at least
3 foot one way and considerably more
from back to front. On any hut a
large head It would have looked top
heavy. On the scales it weighed only a
Bcant four unces and the manager Of
the place smiled triumphantly. Only.
one hat in the entire shop weighed IA
ounces. One weighed 10, but appar-
emily the bigger the hat and price the
less it weighed. Prices ofsuch creations
eve 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 wings and ornaments
of various .kinds-a hat as big as the
~four-ounce Fifth avenue hat-hardly
weighed less than IA ounces. 1t was
easy to fpd them weighing 10 and 20
ounces. Something most mngnif-
cent" which cost SIG, was the champion
Heavyweight at a. ounces, and was war
ranted to give any but a giantess or a
woman with a constitution Of iron a
chronic headache-N. Y. World.