The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12

frontons, but just why this should be he was unable to say
 In some of the examples shown MT Newcomb called attention to the lact that the head dress bore the form or the whole building, az in the HaWallaii' Laplander and Egl ptian styles m some it resembled orly the croWnlhs point of the building, as in the Greclan' Roman, Russian and Tufklsh slyles' and in others the form was only car ried through the detail of the bulldlng' as in the rococo style. Speaking or the ancient styles of architecture, he caIlea attention a to the grass house of the Ha- waiian islands which seemed to nave been the prevailing style long before civilization placed her rigid hnset OH the natives and turned thelf atlehlioii to clothes. What the natives lrst tooN to he was unable to say but he Knew that the Hawaiian hat as worn to-uaS was one of the characteristic thi'lSs now made and worn there. He showed an illustration of the lei-bedeeked nat and also a companion picture ol an olo- time grass hut, the seuilarlty CT ap- pearance being remarkable. NeNt Was shown a picture of an Egyptian wear ing the peculiar heargeal Whlch IS eeei' in the architectural features ot thelf temples-a flat top with the sides ol- verging. The tall pagoda-s shaped hats of the Chinese showed remarKaple likeness to the pagoda temples of the celestial empire.
 A Greek shepherd of ancient tlnes was shown wearing hat shaped rhucH like the triangular root on the Pupn' buildings and temples, the glory ol 'h. ancient Grecian architecture, A rounc helmet worn by Roman soldier, ilttihe closely to his head, was of the shape oi the great domes upon the old Roman buildings. A picture of Turkish tur- ban regembled the domes upon theli mosques. The Crusader wore a tent shaped hat, surmounted by cross wltf havelock attachments: the tents Whlcr the Crusaders used in their journeys tC the Holy Land resembled the hat.~ IT medieval times women wore lone conical hat. and in those days tall graceful spires were the chief architec- tural feature of the churches. Kings o' old France wore huge curly wigs, Wmcf were SndlnS ullu ultSlt No' w '>'N heads; the architecture of their times was also a sham, consisting of orna- mentation which covered plain back ground. The ornamentation had mucf the appearance of the curled wigs Thi: is especially noticeable in the Rococt style In Spain, caps with wrinkles II the brlm are worn by women, and th' houses in which they live and th' churches in which they worship hav' tiled roofs, looking much like the wrin
 kles in the hats. The Indians of Nortl l America wore feathered headgear | their wigwams and tepees greatly re | sembled these odd hair recommendations
 The Puritan conical hat found it's re
 semblance in the steeples which wer invariably erected over the rild
 churches of early New England.
 The plain and severe sunbonnet of tn | grandmothers fo 60 and 70 years az | found its reflection in the plain, auster
 and architecturally ugly houses of tn
 frontier. Even in Ireland, Pats saucer ! like hat looked like the hovel in whicl 1 he lived. The Laplanders wore caps O
 fur, which enveloped the faces lik
 muffs the ice houses in which the
 lived were the same shape, the entranc
 being a round hole, through which the | crawled to the interior.-From tn Honolulu GIawaiD Commercial Adver | tiser.