The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-28
CHARACTER IN HATS
is THE LATEST
A Few Words. of Advice About
Choosing a Hat for Women
of All Kinds

Character by handwriting, by your
walk, by the way you wave your hands
and lift your feet, is exploited once
in so often. and now comes some one
who says she can tell all about a wom-
an by the hal she wears She claims to
be able to tell the woman without
serious convictions on any subject be-
cause she wears a hat which does not
become her, but the miliner wanted to
sell it and so persuaded her that she
looked we'll in it. Aside from being
rather doubtful on the subject of read
ing character by feathers and ribbons,
there isvmuch truth in that. There is
many woman who only knows In a
general way what she wants to wear,
or perhaps would know better if she
had the means to crafty her desires.
She goes to a milliher half heartedly,
being certain of but one thing lin too
many cases. that she must not pay
very much for her headgear. She has
hats without number tried on, and if
the milliner knows her business, she
will wait until the victim has shown
just a slight inclination toward some
particular hat, and then she viii begin
to descant upon it's beauties, the espe-
cial fitness of the shape to the head
must have been preordained for this
particular customer. The woman wa
Vers a little, thinks that perhaps she
does not know what suits her quite as
well as the milliner and finally buys
the hat and hates it in thIee days.
One might say that this is done every
day in the year, but the women who be-
come the victims are those who cannot
have What they want and take what
they can get. Hats are serious things
with women and make or mar their ap-
pearance. If a woman wears an ugly
hat it is because she could not do any
better, except in the rare cases of those
who have atrociouS taste and no dis
erection in shopping.
The one spoken of above said that
too often woman bought the kind of
a hat she had seen on some one else,
fatal mistake! Just because it happens
to become your friend, is no reason
why it would look we'll on you. An
other thing said by the woman who
averred that character can be read by
your chapeau, was that the masculine
mind can be read by the rakish stiff,
or Alpine hat that a woman of that
stripe clapS on her head not caring how
she looks The truth is that no woman
needs the frilly sort of millinery more
than the strong minded woman with q
square jaw and common sense heels.
Then there is the sentimental girl,
who delights in picture hats, and will
look coyly out from a mass of ribbon
and lace, while one coquettish curl
hangs over her left ear She wears it
so long that the hat soon appears be-
draggled and forlorn, but the romance
of the wearer does not seem to grow
less. sense of proportion and the
fitness of things seems to be wholly
lacking, and she succeeds in looking a
fright. Once in a while you come
across a woman who knows her own
mind on the subject of hats as we'll as
about everything else. She goes to q
milliner only to find what she wants
not to know what she wants That
important matter is settled before she
gets there. She will buy a hat that
exactly suits the shape of her face and
spend an hour adjusting it and looking
at it from every angle. Once the hat
is bought and the affair settled, you
never hear her say she does not like
1t, or wish she had bought something
else. Great comfort to have in the
house, that woman. Perhaps her cock
suredness gets upon your nerves at
times, and you wish she was not quite
so certain of herself, until you meet
the woman who never knows her own
mind, and the virtues of the other stand
out in contrast
But the person-and it is generally
a he person-who treats the matter of
hats lightly, does not know what he is
talking about. A hat makes or mars a
woman's appearance, and if she cannot
have what she wants, she should be
very careful in the selection of what
she does have, especially if the one
who judges character by your hats, is
stalking abroad.