The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-19
HATS AND HEADACHE,
Average Weight of Woman's Head Gov
ering and Its Eject on the Brain.


erins and Its Effect on the Brain.
With all it's other sins the fashionable
big hat is charged with being the cause
ot an endless number of headaches.
st is owing to its weight" ex-
claimed a doctor. FLATS that press
Town on the forehead with mass of
weight in front are particularly to
blame. It's hard to get n woman to
admit that her hat is too heavy, but ii is
so. 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
.erestng. l think sometimes that
probably the less a womans brain
weighs the mere does the hat she puts
IN it,"
With a pair of scales number of
millinery establishments were inspect
ed. In big Sixth avenue miIlipery 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
)ut. The heaviest was a white felt
braid. sailor shape, with pyramid
shaped mass of flowers made to rest on
the corner of the brow and cushion of
violets under the brim. 1t weighed
2 ounces easily. A big hat that had an
aight-inch brim and was heavily loaded
apparently with jet rope edge and
jet around the crown only tipped eight
ounces. The department manager
;miled as he said:
"All is not jet that shines this year.
It is a substitute to reduce the weight
IF the hats"
hat, all of chinchilla fur, that
ooked heavy enough to prove load
Weighed only eight ounces. A little
steel bonnet, the size of hand. weighed
line ounces. The average weight of
lalf dozen big hats of the worst the
tier class was only eight ounces. Over
IN Fifth avenue. in shop from which
he best-dressed women get the most
Exclusive fashions, the manager sriled.
Its 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
.hange and alter hats with just that in
lew until the largest hats will be
lighter than the smaller ones. Here is
me. for instance"
And she selected an immense black
nat in one of the new French shapes.
t lowered foot in the air. with
mass of white plumes. About the
crown was n twist OF white tuIle and
some velvet. The hat measured at least
foot one way and considerably more
from back to front. On any but a
arge head it would have looked top
heavy. On the scales it weighed only a
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-
entity 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 hat,
properly trimmed, with the requisite
stylish number of wings and ornaments
VI various kiBds-a hat as big as the
four-ounce Fifth avenue hat-hardly
weighed less than IA ounces. 1t was
easy to find them weighing 10 and 20
ounces. Something most magniti-
'ent," which cost SO, was the champion
heavyweight at "a ounces. and was war
anted to give any but giantess or a
woman with constitution of iron a
chronic headache.-N. Y. World.