The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-21
LARGE HATED LADIES
AS VIEWED BY DOLLY
Hat is Nothing Until it is the Head-The High Cost OF
Living, Commentator Observes Embraces Even the
Simplest Simplicity in Hats-The Lady in the
Crowded Car is a " 'orribe Example
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

'grhe high. cost of living. a COM
mentator observes. embraces even the
simplest simplicity in hats"
OF course the knowing ones know
that the perfection of art that con-
ceals art, is embodied in the effect of
article of a woman's dress.
1t may take a poet or an artist to
design a becoming hat. but tell US,
pray, who 1t is that persuades women
and girls 10 buy large hats for work
aday wearP
For instance any morning early go
| ing down town on any car, you see the
lsly with the large hat.
You cant very well ignore her for
the hat itself is insistent and in its en-
trance into and its exit from the car
| It usually scrapes some sort of trav-
cling acquaintance with those about 1t.
| Woe be TO that one who expects TO
divide a car seat made for two with it.
When added to its cart wheel proportions
there is a quivering rhinestone headed
hatpin exceeding the 10 inch regulations, a
hatpin that implies in its needle like point
any one Yenturesome enough to come
close-then the combination becomes a
public nuisance.
There are other things beside. Splitting
on the Floor signs. that should be posted
The lady with the large hat on the
crowded car is one of these.
Perhaps you may think this is an ex-
asgeration. but 1 assure you 1t isn't.
Let me tell you something
A woman with travelling bag got on a
street car the other afternoon coming
from the Terminal station
She wore an enormous hat
Two long sinister looking hatpins were
the bodyguards that insured the wearer
having a seat all to herself, though at
the next corner a number of people board
ed the car and some of them were COM
PEELED to stand
One man who had dreams of sharing the
travellers seat soon beat retreat.
One of her hatpins just barely missed his
good right eye.
He really preferred standing after that
close shave.
A woman who was sitting behind the
woman who had seat all to herself
was pondering the thoughtlessness OF
the other; the selfshness of her and try
ing to figure out the way of 1t all, why
she wore the enormous hat.
1t was hideously unbecoming and un-
graceful in its lines, and had no possible
advantage to recommend it for travelling.
So absorved was the second one in con-
sidering the first ones lack of consider
missed her corner.
Rising hastily to get up, she stumbled
over the travelling bag. and was pre-
cipitated into the lap of perfectly good
man across the aisle.
Even his quick assistance failed to save
her.
She left the car with a bruised knee, a
twisted wrist and a turned ankle.
Tae point of this story is that the trav-
cling bag was the property of the large
hated lady who had deposited it with
the same lack of concern she displayed IN
her head gear, in the seat behind her, to
which she had no right.
There's no moral probably, to you who
own large hat and quivering doorknob
hatpins of rhinestones to go with it.
OF course. if you consider large hats the
proper thing for morning, the street car
or travelling. why just continue to wear
them, but the nice ethical point involved is
this:
Are you honest to do so?'
In your own carriage or motor car,
where all the seats belong to you, wear
any hat you like. no matter how large
1t is or how unpleasing to others it is, it
will be perfectly permissible, but nobody
has right to board a crowded street car
wearing a hat that takes up more room
than they are paying for, and which in adj
dition is a source of discomfort to your
fellow passengers.
Most of the women who do such things,
| daresay, are the selfish sort, un-
thinking. perhaps, would express ii bet
ter but If this is the case it's high time
they were up and giving a little thought
to their neighbors.