The Washington herald., 1910-08-27
MUST HAT TIPPING COZ
Difficulties of Managing summer
HeRdsear Cause Many GroSIs.

Difficulties OF Managing Summer
Headgear Cause Many GrowIs.
Considerable growing has been heard
this summer concerning the trouble. the
inconvenience, and the dificuity OF raising
and replacing properly and at the right
angle on the head the soft-rimmed straws.
cloth caps. and felt fedores that men
wear so much in hot weather
Rumors come from Philadelphia that
there is an anti-hat raising league form
ing among men there TO do away with
the practice OF tipping this soft headgear
as a salute to women, says the New
York Tribuns
This form OF bowling has indeed many
disadvantages, and. it has been urged,
belongs properly only to the days when
IL was invented. To raise the hat drop
the head, arch the back, and sweep the
ground with ones long feather was a
pretty custom and went well with the
graceful cape. the curls. the sword, and
the swashbuckling top boots. But what
style Is there in sweeping a stone pave
ment with a derby hat, or with skim
mer or a stovepipe?
Obviously, say les enemies. 1t is but a
survival. and a useless one, since It
serves the purpose neither Of pleasure nor
Of art. With the former style Of dress
the bow was z subject for the wielder of
brush and chisel. But who would ever
dare waste enough marble to make a
statue OF a modern man bowling?
Besides. no one who has not even worn
I ca ire ha
and dangers OF raising these soft. unman-
agesble modern hats.
Take man wearing a fine panama. FOR
instance. Along comes woman whom
he knows and Immediately must his
hand fly 10 his head and the wabbIy-
Drimmed creation somehow must be
snatched of. The brlm OF a panama has
very little more control over the crown
than II It were on some one elses head.
and it usually takes two hands TO get
the thing on again. II your other hand
is carrying a large or precious bundle,
what are you 90 do? OF course. you can
grasp the hat around the crown, in the
first place. and lift it bodily from your
head, in which case you have the stu
aticu well in hand for putting It back
again. But very likely you have left the
/ imprint OF your moist, hot, and probably
dusty fingers on its Immaculate white
ness.
II. however, the panama is a disposition
destroyer when It comes to the bow. what
words will describe the antics OF the out
ing cap? Easy enough 10 pull It of al
ways. no matter that IL leaves your hair
tumbled about as though you had been
in a pillow fight. But getting It back
again when Il Is all curled up at the back
and Topping Ike a torn sail in the wind
is another story No. howtng gracefully
with soft cap is an absolutely imprac-
ticable thing.
AS for the fedora. no Gainsborough hat
IS more difficult Of adjustment than this
Imp AFFAIR. and to look its best it must
be put on with the aid OF a mirror
As a pleasant relief from the burdens
and complications Of the hat-tipping syE-
TEN, II is suggested that we substitute
the military salute IN hot weather. This
has possibilities and especially so II
women adopted II in place OF the smile
An essay might be written on the smile
in vogue at the present time as a salute.
and many things might be said against
its too great evanescence and its many
dubious qualities. AS a form OF recogni-
ton IL IS almost as unsatisfactory TO
women as the manipulation OF the soft
hat is TO men.