The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12
THE TABLES TURNED.
Two Men in This City who Succeed In
Trimming Hats for women.

Two Men In Thi. City who Succeed In
Trimming Hats for Women.
while women are going into the practice OF
law and medicine. a few intrepid masculine
souls have been successfully attempting to
render lucrative one Of the trades thatfsminin-
ity threatens 20 abandon. This 10 nothing less
than the ancient. honorable and dinicult art OF
trimming hats. In New York city alone there
are three men who have deserted the ordinary
vocatIoas OF their sex to make bewtchlas nil
lInery and are doing we'll. One 81 these men 10
n house. to- house mi,iner that 10, he takes en-
snr.ments to trim hats by the day. In his
PATRONS own homes. His start In lie was
mnde as bookkesper. Finding only
roor pay and unhealthful confinement In
| this profession. and feeling an inmate
decorators talent. he worked Gil day at his
books and practised alone In his room every
evening with the aid Of dummy head and
few rlumss. scarfs and felt frames. at hat
making. When he fs!t himself proficient In
hIs art. he solicited patronage and proved 30
satisfactory to the women who gave him q
chance that no now possesses as large a ellen
t.le rs he can handle. His charges are -
a day and his snscial achievement 10 tho clever
renovation Of hats. In small satchel he car
RE. his sewing materials and in a sewing room
or quiet corner he snips. fits. ties bows. poIses
plumes. refaces. stsans presses and generally
does over To the complete satisfaction Of those
who employ him.
Another man millinrr, but with larger
Ideals orensd tiny shor, displayed his m odels
in tn. window. raised = sign aud signinsd his
readiness IN take orders. Apparently there
was A back workroon To the shop whore assist
ants sat and toiled. but In reality tho proprietor
~ the establishment was his own shopper.
trirmAr FIR isher and salesman. A little Gus
tom driiied hi. wnv and III 4 n II his hats modest
In price and OF excellent quality brought In a
larger patronage, and the clever proprietor has
now large corps OF assistants and his prices
are as high as Anybo1y's. For all that the
women Hock TO his door and acknowledge In
him true exponent OF the Highest 10 his art,
because he " an almost infallibls Judge ~ the
beeom ngns.s Of hat and because he will put
a dIfficult customer before . mirror and In a
trice design himself the hat over dozen times
right on her own head.
Not very long ago to busy Filth avenue
milliner, came a smoo'h-faced boy and asked
for work In her shon as dasicn.r AZ n,st
she laughed NJ his rrstsnsiona but when he
odd. and ends from tnbls and constructed
there'rom hat that In ton minutes found q
customer. the Young man got a Job. He could
not fn sent TO the workronm where twenty
fve girls are busy all day. hut hahind a screen
in ono corner, a studio was improvisrd and
there from = IN tho morning. until 5 IN tho
afternoon. tho young genius 81 70 serenely build.
ing headgenr that never falls To sell And
vet" said the nilliner, rs she allowed tho re-
porter n 81 m pse ~ this new-found genius. II
always believed that Int trl m Ing was an ac-
com plishment In which women would never
meet any masculine mpstition."