Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
THE UNDERSTANDING HAT.
Ban on the New Sailors at Toledo
Ball Park,

Hip-hip and a tiger for Bill Armour!
Hill-he's the boss of the Toledo base
bail club now, you remember-has an
nounced that the girl with the far
spreading lid will not be admitted to the
Toledo ball park this year. Maybe Bill
has seen those new sailor" hats that
the girls are wearing this year. Maybe
he's basing the new rule on his recollec-
ton of the hugeness Of those mushroom
lids that the girls wore last year. Any
how, Bill. he says that the girl with the
gigantic top piece can't see ball in his
Toledo yard this year. and he says 1t
like a man who intends to stay with It,
Is he right? Pretty nigh. pretty nigh
And he deserves all the credit accruing
and aggregating unto himself for having
beer the first of the ball folks in the
fed with that beautiful pronunciamento
Maybe you have sat behind the girl at
the ball park with one Of those enormous
slky-pieces. If you have you know per-
fectly we'll what Bill means when he
says that the girl with the colossal top
has got to stay out Of his yard. It's bad
enough to sit behind ten or fifteen pounds
of fictitious puffs and things on the top
Of the modern girls own hair at the
theater. But at the theater you can at
least hear what's coming off on the stage,
even IL the girl with all that store hemp
declines to let you see what the hams
are doing.
But to sit behind a girl at ball park
who wears one Of those Singer building
domes Is to suffer plumb unspeakable
misery. The worst Of it is that you
can't lean over. respectful and polite
like. and request the young person to
remove that sky-s'l. for girls don't nave
to take their hats of in a base ball grand
stand, and girls. maybe you've noticed.
are not in the habit of doing any of
these things that they just don't have to.
So you just sit behind her. bobb!ng
around like a man in the bug ward. suf-
fering from the dts. and by the time
played you feel like as If you had been
working in a lead mine for ten or fifteen
years without ever coming up to the
surface. Fortunately. the tiers of seats
at the Washington ball park are raised
pretty high above each other. and SO
get this Observation-Disclosures effect so
horribly as the fan of some other cities.
In some Of the other cities the lift Of
the tiers one above the other is mighty
small, and there have been all sorts Of
complaint about the girls hats in these
towns.
Maybe 1t sounds some ungallant and
things to gloat over Bill Armours spunk
In fcrbidding the girl with the stupendous
topdressing to enter his yard. But then.
you know. base ball. after all's said and
done, Is a mans game, isn't 1t? And
the man Is the one who has to tumble
around in the jeans Tor the -FOUR DIS or
the six bits thatll enable him to zephyr
By the turnstile at the ball park. isn't
he? And the girl who attends the ball
game gets in for nothing oftenef than
not, does she not? Which the same being
the case. isn't the boy who shells out the
silver the one who is entitled to get some
sort of consideration for his money? And
is he being considered when he has to
wriggle around behind a hat like a hooded
cobra all the afternoon?
Oh. Bill Armour. he knows. and it isn't
any trick at all to prophesy that after
a while. after Bills idea soaks in thor
oughly. his scheme will be adopted at
all Of the ball yards in the country. and
that the girls will get into the habit of
wearing nice. cunning little lids at the
ball game just as they got into the habit
when the howl became something ire
mendous Of taking off their hats alto
gether at the theater-which they only
did, maybe you'll recall. when they were
absolutely made to do 1t. and not out
O. any sense of consideration for others
at all.