The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-30

new Slouch hats that appear Aas0~1 each week.
 New York. October 26.--If one knows Paris, it is quite easy to see how quickly the slouch hat of the Ameri- can soldiers has fired the imagination of the French
 There is nothing French about such hats. There is nothing that is English They have little, if anything, in com- mon with that vast horde of foreign troops who have passed through the boulevards of Paris for three years, making it the cosmopolitan center of the world
 Every day in the little charcoal heat ed cafes Of winter, or under the chest nut trees of summer, there have min gled for three years the uniforms or the world. Hindoo has been there with Algerian; Scottish with the ltaiian Bersaglieri: the Chasseurs dAlpln With the servian mountaineers the Cos saclsN with the Rumanian peasant fighter; the territorials with the Black Watch; Anzacs with Canadians from the north country. It was motley throng, and 1t did not inspire either the milliners or the designers of Paris to much in the way of clothes
 Americans Inspire French Designers
 But when Pershing's men mingled with the throng, the change was lm- mediate. These men wore clothes that were symbolic of a new country, ana the other soldiers were symbols or countries that were familiar to France and the uniforms of which were part of her documents. But the American wooden khaki shirt with it's turnover collar, the slouch sombrero with its Montana peak, the loose, fighting brooches on the long, gaunt legs of the American man, the familiar air with which the puttee wraps the les a $ though it had been there from the cradle, the rather swaggering gait Of all American soldiers, imparted them selves to the salons of the dressmak- CTS as quickly as they did to the jest and song of the stage. And so we have fringed belts, cowboys girdles, the loose, handkerchief collar of the southwest and the sombrero of the cowboy now adopted by the regular army.
 All these are reflected in the French clothes, but particularly in the hats that the milliners turn out. If wom- an is smart this winter, and if the shape of her nose and chin can endure it, she will wear broad d-brimmed hat with high crown pinched in at the top. If this becomes too common, she will still adopt the high, soft crown pulled up into some kind of peak rather than crushed in to form a pla- teau.
 Hats Low on the Head
 Whatever shape the milliners give to woman, they demand that sine wear it low on the head. Such is the law and the decree concerning mill linery. The hats show nothing but a bit of hair over the ear and "a fleck of it at the back.
 It is said that the crowns are high because it Is fashionable in France to pile the hair on top of the head. It is no longer worn on level with the ears or neck Therefore, there is no excuse for hats that do not rest well down over the top of the ears with the brim lower than the eyebrows.
 This fashion is good for the woman over 30, for she should never wear a hat that does not shade the eyes; but it is the flappers who have taken to themselves the most exaggerated form of this slouch hat and pulled 1t down so far that it almost covers the entire head.
 The hat which is shown in the sketch today is of white charmeuse felt, with the entire brim lined with clipped brown seal. The high. peaked crown is softly dented by the hands at will. and one side of it has a plas- tered ornament of clipped seal which is wei ghted al the edge with two pieces of colored enamel.
 It is very difficult to wear white completed his medical education at Mo- bile and later spending two years or more at the Childrens hospital in Boston.