The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-12
WHISPERS, HATS AND CANES.
How These Accessories Have Figured
La Mana Little Xanitias.

now Ine1e ACCESSORIES nave FtQureo
In Man. Little vanities.
An honest history of the beard would
lay open an undercurrent Of petty van
ity in many of the worlds greatest
figures. Henry Will. for instance,
shaved until he learned that Francis
1. Of France wore beard, and then he
laid aside his razors and strops for
ever Even the gentle Sir Thomas
More had a beard which was his joy
and his pride. When he was on the
scaffold and the headsman was about
to lift the fatal ak, Sir Thomas halted
him. saying. wait till l put aside my
beard, for that has committed no trea-
son."
Again there was the celebrated bish-
op of Clermont, who was appointed to
that office shortly after the council OF
Trent and who precipitately fed his
bishopric one Easter Sunday morning
rather than suffer the loss of his beard.
What faults of feature in the good bish-
op, retreating jaw, fat neck, blub-
Der lips or what not, might have been
revealed through the agency of the
scissors and razor we know not, but
that the concealment Of such facial
flaws has always been to greater or
less degree the motive for the growth
Of boards is certain.
In Mexico and other Spanish coun-
tries the hat has for centuries been
the object Of mans vanity. The Gus
tom found its origin in the days when
the Hapsburg power was supreme.
One of the most cherished privileges
that the old grandees enjoyed was that
OF wearing their hats In the presence
Of royalty The absolute power Of
their monarch left them little else to
do but enter into rivalry with one an
other in regard to the splendor of their
head coverings. The gay conceit spread
rapidly throughout the Spanish domin-
ions, and even today characteristic
sugar loaf hats may be found In Mexi-
co for sale at the astounding price OF
from $500 to 1000 for single hat
When our soldiers invaded Cuba and
Porto Rico in 1898, the Spanish style
struck their fancy, and most Of those
who did not come back to the United
States in hospital ships returned with
their sedste campaign hats transform
ed into contraptions with high pointed
crowns after the Spanish fashion.
From the time when man wandered
through the painless forests bearing on
his shoulders a murderous bludgeon
with which to strike down his enemies
the cane has never entirely gone out Of
fashion. The modern fop would feel
as much at sea without IL as did the
beau Of whom Steele's Taller spoke
in 1909, when it said that the cane had
become as Indispensable as any other
of his limbs. and that. with 1.-THE
knocking of it upon his shoe. leaning
one leg upon It or whistling upon it
with his mouth. he does not know how
he should be good company without
it" It may be fattering to the vanity
of such a one TO know that the gro
tesque knobs and arabesque heads that
he delights in displaying on bis walking
stick are iineai descendants of the
carved baton that the fools and testers
of the middle ages wielded.-American
Tailor and Cutter.
Moonlight.
"AIl the world was sunk n gfoom
till gradually rayonnant heralding
halo of pallid and lustrous green ap-
peared above the deeply purple sum-
mits. In its midst the yellow moon
slowly revealed herself. and with Wis
ibie tfenillousucss rose soiemnly into
the aseendency OF the night This is
the way lady novelist has Of telling
her readers that it .lAs.ocniizht--Chi-