Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — The Philippine Islander and His Hat. [ARTICLE]

The Philippine Islander and His Hat.

Felt and woolen hats are exported in large quantities from Germany to the Philippine Isles. The hat is the great article of adornment worn by the natives—“nobody is anybody without it”—but it must be of European origin. The home-made cane hats are relegated to homely wits and slender purses. Especial value is placed on a brightcolored silk lining, with a ticket nicely printed in gold. Indeed, when the hat is new the Manila dandy carries it in his hand, so that people may admire the external splendor.— Halter and Furnisher. A physician residing in Los Angeles, Cal., claims that the death rate among children there is proportionately very small. And this he attributes to the climate, which renders possible an out-of-door life almost every day of the year, and fruit at all times.—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.