Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — It Was the Hat. [ARTICLE]

It Was the Hat.

“I never realized the truth of Shakspeare’s saying that ‘the apparel doth oft proclaim the man’ till I made my first trip to New York City,” said Editor McAdams, who prints the Chickasaw Chieftain away down in the Indian Nation, to some friends at the Ebbitt. “You see the sombrero I have on now—well, the brim is pretty wide, but not a marker to the one I wore that day on my pilgrimage up Broadway. I must have looked pretty verdant, for there were'just Seventeen sharpers that struck me between the Astor House and the Fifth Avenue Hotel. When I reached that point the thing got monotonous, and I went into a hat store and bought a derby. Then I resumed my sauntering and walked a mile, further, but never a ‘con’ man reached out his hand and with an insinuating smile pretended to know me.”—Washington Post.