last spring in the number of young.
There was a noticeable increase fron who appeared. hatless on the streets, especially at the luncheon hour, says the "New York Sun." The fad Seems to be spreading to men of maturer years, but its life pro-dably will not be longer than that of the hich collar craze of the gay 90's, Though there are cyelcs_ in headgear as well. as in planctacy motion, there is little danger of our reverting to the hatless state of the ancient Romans.
The hat has a long and general ly honoured history. If it has ministered to the vanity of coxjeombs, it has also served man a3} a comforter and protector in both peace and war. It comes down to tus from such remote antiquity that} we never shall know who invented it An old stone carving shows the Hittite weather god wearing a tall, tapering top piece with a narrow turned-up brim. The same hat! is found on images in Asia Minor, Crate and Cyprus. Narrower _at the top and surmounted by a spike, it distinguishes the Assyrian kings. Tu Greece hats were circular in shape. During tost of the classic age they were little worn except by youths, workmen and slaves. Perhaps the young wore them to be Jdifferent from old fogies who went!
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