Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-08-31
HATS AND HATPINS,
Psychology and Philosophy of the Man
ner of Wearing the Individual
Headgear.

Headgear
The ravages Of psychology are daily in
creasmg, Not content with turning the
individual aud the crowd inside out. for
our edilication. psychologists are bent on
giving us the rationale of every object
IN the heavens above and the earth be-
heath. What we eat and what we wear
what we do and what we are forbidden
to do. our habits our emotions oar rcla-
toms, both external and internal--every-
thing must now have lis psychology"
The latest is The Psychology Of the
Hat"
In such case ones first instinct right
~ Is chcrcheZ the German professor. He
+ the guilty man this time and bis name
Is Prof Hans Gross of Gratz. In n re-
cent work ON criminal psychology no has
Il long disduiSitiun on the hat as an index
oil character IL is all set down, of
course, after the seNerest fashion of sci
ehce, Gladstone used sometimes To enter
tain his friends by amusing discourses
about hats--the styles different public
men affected, comic accidents he had
seen IN connection with headgcar and
So on. Hut this was mere personal anec-
unle aud pcrStIage, The German pro-
ieSSor KNOWS nothing of such trihmg. He
mas made long series of OBSERVE innS
on the manner of wearing the hat and
studies Tor the hchoof or warning of
mankind.
" ~ not the nature of the hat Itself
winch counts ST. much as the nupIp nj
which II Is worn. Thus we learn that
II a man wears his hat exactly per
pehuicuiar to the vertical axis of the
head W" may know him for citizen
wholly upright. To be sure, but almost
certainly p,AIuut an "a h,pn IN, ...,.
ried very much on one side of the head
Is an intallhlr mark of insulcnce and
presumption. Wearing the hat ON th,,
l"ck ot The head is sign of reckless.
ness, Prof Gross is convinced that il
Is also sign of being in debt. Ii Won
meet man with his hat very far back
yon may set him down as pretty near
bankruptcy. This is Il hint TO Brad
street and bonding compnaics. But there
are many distinctions aud suhtlctics here,
INT" which our professor does not go.
shocking bad hat" for cNamnlc. may
he an index of either dire poverty or
great wealth. The very rich may be
as independent as the hopclcssy poor
IN this respect IL duke may wear Il
hat lndlsfinguShAhlc from a tlustmanS
On the other hand, we are informed
by an ohScrvaut friend that man whose
credit is suspected must he very care
! ful about his hats They must be of
the best make and latest fashion if he
would not see his accommodation ut the
bank mySteriousy cut off. But il is the
moral nature, not the size of the bank
account, ut which Prof. Gross is most
anxious Ia arrive 10y way of the hat;
accordingly. he notes the fact that Il hat
pulled far down over the forehead should
! put you ON your guard against suly
/ temper.
| If anyone thinks this is learning
Wreaked upon trties let him wait until
! lr hears 81 a treatise on the evolution os
! the lmtpin, No mere man could hc equal
! 10 this. of course There are mysteries
in the lmtpin which even the most in
! trcph male, versed though he aight b.
IN the method of Entwickungsgesthi chtc
would shrink from attacking II Is Miss
| Evelyn sharp who informs ny TUT we
have reached II critical point u de
evolution of the hatpig 1t he" u VA.
learn. as harmless hut ucces 'c-
vice for fixing the ladv's hAi to he Hsi5
| II was thcn n black. nuubtrusiyc ttiHg.
with small aud shiny head .i}ut rhut
stone aga of the hatpn is now left far
| behind We may =" on pretending That
! the function of the hatpin is to fnSten
the hat 10 the half. but this fiction is
| difficult Ia maintain IN the face of seven
of them, NIL briStling round one small
(
enough to- rei55t it altogether aud to in.
cludc hutpius ~ part of the trimming -
Use has evolved into ornament. We
/ have reached the stage Of the decorative
| hatpin. And just here - the danger,
this is the crisis" Women must look
! 10 il. lest in their hurry to seize upon
! u new means of ornamcntatlon they for
/ get the primary use of the hntpiu." Miss
/ Sharp protests stoutly against some of
! the monstaostics that pass current -au
! insect. or bird. or constellation of
! Saturns. serving as the head Of hat
/ pin. She suggests making use of THE
| dcrclcts of oar tIinket boxes" when
/ seeking after hntpns that will lac both
! original and pretty. We cannot so into
/ this. The masculine mind naturally
/ pauscs in awe before such arcana. oar
! only concern is 10 note bow rapidly it iS
/ getting TO hc truc that nothing is uu-
/ dreamed If 10 Our philosophy II tn"
/ psychology of the hat must bc studied
/ what object, al unconscious Of lis pSS-
/ chOlogy, h safof We may ANY dry get
- tome on the criminology Of the neck
! tie, or the normal significance of the
safety pin. New Eorl, Post
!
Conscientious