Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — His First Tall Hat. [ARTICLE]

His First Tall Hat.

Why does the young man, who whilom greeted you with unaverted gaze and pleasant good morning, now veil his eyes in their down-drooping lashes and pass you by without a word, either good, bad, or indifferent ? • Why is his countenance sicklied o’er with the sioisly' smile of all-controlling tels-conscious-ness? Why his beseeching, appealing look when his young acquaintance is about to. address ■ him ? Why dodges he down the side street rather than meet the throng of young fellows it was once hischiefest pleasure to meet;,and fee with?s When entering a doorway, .who can say why he stoops sojow? Why tiiis, humility, this reverence, ,in ope who was wont to carry his head so high ? Why consorts he exclusively wi r h.hif< elders, why doos ho ayqiq

his contemporaries as he would a pestilence ? The answer is easy to find. He has on his first tall hat.