Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-08

Aath ana Hearts.
Julian Street, writing in Golfers,
said things about Cripple Creek that
all westerners resented. But in his
initial number of the series Abroad
at Home, under Hats and Hearts, he
did say some clever things that we all
appreciate. A portion of the article
follows:
Whether they are entirely aware of
it or not, the well-dressed men of
eastern cities are lin the matter of
costume, dominated, to a large ex-
tend, by London The English mode,
however, does not reach far west
In Chicago it grows feeble; in St
Louis it is practically non-existent
Clothing in the west is all American
Take, for example coats. The west
ern mans is loose and broad across
the shoulders. And let me add that
/ believe his vision is ''cut" broader,
too. Westerners, far more than east
erners, it seems to me, sense the
United States--the size of it and
what it really it. Time and again, in
talking with them, it has come to me
that their eyes are focused for long
er range; that, looking off toward
the horizon, they see thousand miles
of farms stretched out before them
or thousand miles of mountain
peaks.
And even as coats and comprehen-
sion seem to widen in the west, so
hats and hearts grow softer. The
derby plays an unimportant part. In
Chicago, to be sure, it makes feeble
effort for supremacy, but west of
there it dies an ignominious death be-
meath an avalanche of soft felt hats.
Felt hats around Chicago seem. how
ever, to lack the full-grown western
opulence. Compared with hats in the
real middle west, they are stingy lit
tie headpieces. When we were in Chi
cago that city seemed to be the CEN
ter of a section in which peculiar
style of hat was prominent--a blue
A1At WIFI q NCiftt Dut liiatt
of course, was merely passing fash
ion. Not SO the hats a little farther
west. The Mississippi river marks
the beginning of the big black hat
belt. The big black hat is passionate
ly adored in Missouri and Kansas. 1t
never changes; never goes out of fash
ion. And it may be further noted that
many of these somber, monumental,
soft black hats, with their high crowns
and widespread brims, have been sent
from these two western states to
Washington, D.. c.
At Kansas City there begins anoth-
er hat belt, The Missouri hat remains,
but its supremacy begins to be dis
puted by an even larger hat, of simi-
lar shape but different color The
big black, tan or putty color hat be-
gins to show at Kansas City. Also
one sees, now and again, upon the
streets cowboy hat with flat brim.
When l mentioned that to Kansas
City man he didn't seem to like it.
With passionate vehemence he declar-
ed that cowboy hats were never known
to adorn the heads of Kansas City
men--that they only came to Kansas
City on the heads of itinerant cattle
men. Well. that is doubtless true.
But | did not say the mayor of Kan
sas City wore one. only said | saw
such hats upon the street. And
however they got there, and wherever
they came from-those hats looked
good to me!
Miss Egan Entcrtains Large
Company.
A company of Durango's most pop
ular young matrons and maidens had
the pleasure of partaking of Miss An
ma Egan's hospitality at 800" par
ty last night. Spirited games of the
interesting diversion occupied the at
tention of the participants for three
hours. Dainty Refreshments were
served toward midnight. Mu-
sic had a part in the evenings en-
tertainment. The guest list included
the Mesdamcs Chase, O'Rourke, Dug
gan, Dixon, Goodman, Coppinger and
Musser, and the Misses Mae Vande-
grift, Brewer, Pulliam, Pike, Murphy,
Anderson, Sullivan, Vandegrift, Aus
tin, O'Rourke, Coppinger, Gibbs,
Hahn, Hooker, jackson, Fankhauser,
McCloud, Harrington, Finn, Finn, Bu-
chanan, Phelan, MacLain, Mackenzie.
Wagner and Gogarty.
Mrs. Arthur Fisher and little son,
who have been visiting her parents
for the past month, leave about the