Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-10
WILD BREEzES BLOW
Funny Sights Seen From the
District Building.
CHASING AFTER HEAOGEAR
Vain Attempts to Preserve Dignity
While Engaging in the Mad Pur-
suit of Elusive Hats.

Come into my Office said Commits
sioner Rudolph to the reporters in the
press room at the District building yes
terday, land watch them as their hats
blow off on the Avenue.
And the wind was certainly blowing
off hats on the Avenue. From the Com
missioner's room one can look all the
way up to the Treasury. and all the way
down to the Capitol, if one chooses to
lean far out. And all up and down the
broad street there were sights of men
and women clutching violently at hats
or chasing rolling, rollicking headgear
down the pavement.
Those who chased their hats tried To
preserve their dignity while running.
The more dignity. the farther the hat
would roll and only on complete loss
of all dignity did they recover their
hats at all
A Deceptive Calm.
1t was a nice afternoon remember.
The wind blew only in intermittent gusts.
between which would fall upon the Ave
nue. a placid and colin atmosphere that
made men say:
BY George | must buy me some new
neckties and spring shirt or two. L
must go see Mabel and ask her to go
out driving tomorrow afternoon. tee
but | wish l was going fishing today !:
this air is great. And just look at the
vi0lets on that
Whizz. Along came the gusty wind
and. crack on the ground slapped
derby hat, which made away up the
street as if it possessed dozens OF legs
all equipped with seven league boots
Thoughts of Mabel and violets, nsmne
and spring shirts were lost. and men ana
women beheid the sight of a citizen sulo-
denly plunged from thoughts or spring
into obiurgationS of near profanity tand
who knows but what there might nave
been the real thing.
But right there at the northwest cor
ner of the District building was the
Mace to watch them. 1t was there that
the girls who wear these perfectly enor-
NOUS hats gave continuous exhibition
for low-browS. who would laugh TO see
spring hat-a yard OF two In diameter
suddenly lifted, by wild wind, STOOD
up on edge, made to tug Vloienti! at
its moorings of puffed hair, and, per-
haps. eventually pull down the whole
intricate toppiece of hair. ribbons ana
rat.
The wind swept right across the race
of the District building, and. somehow,
when il was sweeping that way a per-
son coming up the 14th street side never
knew of the rushing current untli ne
ducked suddenly into it right at the
sharp northwest corner OF that Dulidlng.
Plays Hob With merry Widows"
The girls came up the street chatting
Rayly, when Puff. there would be the
greatest exhibition of hats standing on
edge that the District building has ever
seen.
Gracious, Didn't they Shrek. AS
those yard-and-a-half hats stood up on
edge, like variegated spinnaker sails on
a racing yacht as she spins along with
the wind the girls would take sudden
step to leeward. If they had been equip
ped with keels and it had been wet
course, they could have sailed all the
way back to their starting point. That
is if they had not reefed their spin
Makers or main to'galants, and tossed
out graphing irons against the sides OF
the District building.
So no wonder Commissioner RudOlpn
stood musing on the sight of the people
of the city over which he presides, to
the extent of one-third of the board
When has q ruler, or the one-third part
of the rulers of a city seen so many
yard-and-a-half hats standing on edge
and waving nuttering Chautauqua sa-
lutte at the man whose vote VIII de-
eide perhaps whether or not there snail
he long hat pins or short hat pins or
no hat pins at all? AS the Commissioner
stood there, he turned to one or the
scribes who was all attendance, note
hook and pencil in hand, and said, SLOW
ly. 50 as to get it down accurately In
the notebook:
..aav. it must be awful to be woman
and have hat like one OF those