Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — Moral Influence of the Silk Hat. [ARTICLE]

Moral Influence of the Silk Hat.

There’s a good thing associated with the silk hat that, should not b,e overlooked ; it’s A standing guaranty of good behavior. No man will deliberately disgrace himself in a high hat. The percentage of arrests of men in high hats is very small. When a man sets out to do a deliberate piece of villainy, he invariably selects a Derby or some similar head-piece. Besides, white or black, silk or felt, the high hat is a grievous tell-tale; for let a man be out all night, and ten to one, although he has braced up and looks first-rate otherwise, his hat will give him dead away" in the morning. Yes, sir, on the ground of its being a sort of moral frontispiece, if nothing else, I consider that it deserves to be retained, and that consid-

eration has, no doubt, had a great deal to do with its lasting popularity.— New York Star.