Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — HOPKINS AND HIS HAIR. [ARTICLE]

HOPKINS AND HIS HAIR.

Wearing His Hat Pat One Man’s Locks in Peril. Detroit Free Press, “No wonder* we get bald while we are young,” remarked Hopkins to a group of friends who had met in the office of one of their number. “There is Whittaker”—pointing to a man at a desk—“l’ll bet his hat hasn’t been off his head to-day.” “That’s right,” said Whittaker, cheerfully. “I put it on at 7, when I left home this morning, and ate my lunch down town with it on, and it’s beginning to feel as if had a brick in it, too.” “Why do you wear it in the office?” asked one of the boys. “Habit, that’s all. I feel more at home with it on. However, I might as well take it off now aud give my head a rest.” He removed it suddenly and a lot of letters fell to the floor. He stared at them a moment as if he could not quite comprehend what they were doing there; then he laughed, bul rather faintly. “My wife gave them to me to rcqiil this morning. They are to invite some of her lady friends to a 5 o’clock tea or something to-morrow afternoon. Say, boys, I’ll put a special delivery stamp on each blessed oue, and they’ll be there on time.” “You’ll be bald, just the same, old boy,” said Hopkins, maliciously.