People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — Headgear in the Last Century. [ARTICLE]

Headgear in the Last Century.

Stewart, the great hair-dresser, says: “At no period in the history of the world was anything more absurd in head-dress worn than at the close of the eighteenth century. • The body of these monuments of ugliness was formed of tow. over which the hair was turned and false hair added in great curls, boas and ties and powdered in profusion, then hung all over with vulgarly large rows of pearls or glass We ads, fit only to decorate a chandellier. Flowers as obtrusive were stuck about this heap of finery, which was surmounted by broad, silken bands and great ostrich feathers, until the bead*dress of a lady added three feet to her stature.” Imagine the discomfiture of people who attended the play and wished to view the stage! Three feet of finery hiding from sight the very thing one came to see! In this era of tiny theater bonnets, the picture drawn by the famous Stewart reduces to a minimum the inconsideration on the part of our women of to-day, who but yesterday or quite recently wore the broad, flaring street hat to the theater and expected the people sitting behind to dodge about in order to catch an occasional glimpse of the play and suffer from a crick in their necks for days thereafter.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. A Conscientious Girl.—-“ Did you accept Mr. Flicker?" “Yes. but I warned him I couldn't possibly think of marry* Ing him."—Chicago News Record.