Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Hat Tips. [ARTICLE]

Hat Tips.

The hat of the modern American is a more or less direct descendant from the ancient helmet. The shape of a derby could have been evolved from nothing else, and it has little save tradition to recommend it It is not beautiful or comfortable, as compared with the cowboy’s soft felt hat or the cap .of the European peasant It does not keep the ears warm, nor Stay on with any degree of success; and it goes out of fashion every season, reappearing later in a slightly different form. Its sole recommendation is the tradition that it is the proper headgear for a civilized and enlightened man; and when it is cocked on one side on the head of a rowdy it does not make him look either civilized or cultured.— Washington Times.