NEWPORT DAILY DEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAR DYKE, PsfclUAw Eittw.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
HISTORY OF STRAW HATS.
The MmUin* ol Plaited Hend*enr
Said to Be of Ancient Orl*ln—
Antiquity of I,e*liopna.
—
By what happy process prehistoric
man first consummated a headgear
we do not know exactly; but it must
obviously have been a late incident
in the evolution of that interesting
individual. Perhaps a leafy bough,
broken off and held aloft, was the
very first thing in “tiles,” and if this
were so then some of the garden
hats, dear to the gentler sex to-day,
may obviously boast a direct descent
from antiquity. When our remote
kinsmen had found next that a little
shaping a “confection” of • twigs
would remain on the head without
being held there, the thing was done,
and from that brilliant conception
down to the sweetest and latest
achievement of Paris the steps are
simple and easy, says the London
Globe.
Historically, the straw hat is
wrapped in a good deal of mystery.
When once established in something
like its present form it became so
much a matter of course that few
ancient writers thought of alluding
to it any more than they would have
dwelt on the homely fact that a man
had shoes on his feet or unmention
ables to his lower limbs. Authorities
have generally held that the plaiting
of straw for the purpose was not
practiced in England before the lat
ter part of the eighteenth century,
bat this is far too late a date.
Spenser himself mentions such an in
dustry. “Some plain with straws,”
and Shakespeare in “The Tempest”
makes Iris sing:
You sunburnt slckleman, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow and be merry,
Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on.
And in “A Lover's Complaint” the
poet speaks again of a plaited hive
of straw being worn by a fickle maid
to preserve her complexion from the
sun. In the reign of James I. the
author of “Crudites” tells us that the
finest, “6tre\ven hats” were worn both
by men and women in Piedmont,
many of them having a hundred
seams, and being consequently very
costly, three pounds six shillings,
having been paid for “two straw hats
and bands for the use of Lord Wil
liam Howard.” After that the head
covering, onee a despised essential
of rustic costume, became the joy
of the court, a prime instrument in
the affected simplicity of an age
whose only inspiration was pre
tense.
Queen Anne’s great ladies wore
straws. These were followed by leg
horn “chips,” which were carried in
to overwhelming popularity on the
beautiful heads of the Misses Gun
ning, the ladies to whom we owe
this at least, that they not only
graced their own charms by the
most natural and becoming headgear
that can be worn, but gave a mighty
impulse of a British industry which
flourished for many years afterward.
These leghorn plaits proving too
expensive for general use, Luton and
Dunstable came to the assistance of
the foreign producer; rill over Herts
and Suffolk, and down into Essex, it
became possible for adroit women
fingers to earn as much by the fire
side as tne men earned by plow- or
siekle far afield. “Straw, straw,
straw, straw!—everything is orna
mented with it, from the cap to the
shoehnekle, and Cores seems to be
the favorite idol, not only with the
female, but with the male part of
the world as well, for the gentle
men’s waistcoats are ribbed with
straw, and they look as if they had
amused themselves In Bedlam for
some time past manufacturing the
flimsy doublet,” wrote un essayist in
the European Magazine in 1783, allud
ing to the craze which followed on
the duchess of Rutland's use of the
material as an ornament to dress.
Even to-day the old skill in weaving
the glossy yellow stalks is not quite
forgotten, and any day one may see
in the old localities cottage women
and girls sitting at their doors gos
siping with their neighbors, while
the strands accumulate around them,
or weaving as they walk to market,
where the factors are still ready to
buy the product of the labor, clean,
healthy, easily-learned, and practiced
without apparatus.
An Opinion.
Stinjay—How did you like that cigar
I gave you? It was an “Admiral,” you
know.
Sharp* What an appropriate name
for it! There’s something about that
cigar suggestive of an admiral.
“What’s that.”
“It’s rank.” Philadelphia Press.
W irrl*»« Telrarnphy for Army l nr.
Wireless telegraphy is suggested
as a substitute for the heliograph
as a means of communication be
tween military posts along the
northwest Indian frontier.—Army
and Navy.
What He Really Said.
Mr*. Buffer* — The teller at that
bank says you are just the meanest,
stingiest—
Mr. Buffers—Great Scott! Wha—
what is that? He say*—
Mrs. Buffers—Well, he didn’t say it
in so many words, but that is. what he
meant, of course.
Mr. Buffer*—See here! What did
the fellow say ?
Mrs. Buffers—He asked me to in
dorse the check; and when 1 told him
I hadn’t the ghost of an idea of what
he meant, he said he presumed I hadn’t
had much experience getting checks
cashed—so there!”—N. Y. Weekly.
A Reproof.
She (walking home from church)—
Did you notice that lovely Parisian
hat Mrs. Styler was wearing? I
could think of nothing else the whole
time.
He—No, my dear, can’t say I did.
To tell you the truth, I was half
asleep most of the time.
She—Then you ought to be ashamed
to own it. A nice lot of good the
service must have done you, I must
say.—Ally Sloper.
Why Ethel Behaved.
Ethel used to play a good deal in
the school. One day she had been
very quiet. She sat up prim and be
haved herself so nicely that, after
the school was over, the teacher re
marked:
‘‘Ethel, my dear, you were a very
good girl to-day.”
‘‘Yes’m. I couldn’t help being dood.
I dot a stiff neck!”—Cincinnati En
auirer.
The Greater Burden.
“Is there anything harder to bear
than real trouble?” I asked of the
intellectual man who sat next to me
in the smoker.
“Only imaginary trouble,” he re
plied.
From his answer I knew that I was
correct in my surmise. He was indeed
a member in good standing of the Phi
losophers’ union.—Judge.
Essential Principle Locking.
“So I am the fourteenth man that
has proposed to you this year, am I?”
the young man said, pale with chagrin
and mortification. “I suppose I ought
to go and suggest to the others that
we get up a lovers’ trust. There cer
tainly are enough of us.”
“I don’t see how you could do that,
Harold,” she said, softly. “The‘com
munity of interests’ idea would be
wholly lacking.”—Chicago Tribune.
A Strained Position.
The fellow who wants to hold office
In quite a dilemma is found—
He can't keep his nose to the grindstone
And also hfs'ear to the ground.
«—N. Y. Times.
NOT GUILTY.
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“Didn’t I see my husband kissing
you?”
“Goodness, no, mum. I wouldn’t be
caught dead kissing such a looking
t’ing as him.”—Chicago American.
The Summer Girl.
Though Paris furnishes her gowns
And all her hats may plan,
Our Yankee coasts and mountains now
Provide her coat of tan.
—Puck. ___
Hupiilneas.
“Would you,” asked the million
aire’s daughter, “marry a girl with
red hair?”
“No," replied the poor young man,
“for my heart is possessed by one
with rich auburn tresses. Will you
be mine?”
She threw herself into his arms
and sobbed for joy.—Chicago Record
Herald.
He Broke It Gently.
German Student (who has consumed
a full dinner at the college restaurant,
diffidently, to the proprietor)—I find
I haf no money is these trousers pock
ets.
Proprietor (after an expressive
pause)—Oh, well, I suppose you can
pay me when you have your others on.
German Student—But I haf no other
trousers!—Brooklyn Eagle.
. .
A Pretty Sure S!«n.
“Does she sing as if she had had her
voice cultivated?”
“Oh, yes, I couldn’t understand a
word she said.”—Philadelphia Bulle
tin.
Method in Her Madne**.
“What on earth do you mean,” her
mot her asked, “by urgin’ your husband
to get one of those outrageously high
priced Panama hats? Are you crazy
to encourage such extravagance?”
“I shall want some more hats from
time to time myself, mamma dear,”
the sweet young woman replied, “and
he has always kicked so at the prices
I pay.”
“My darling! You always was such
a hand for lookin’ ahead. Let me kiss
you.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
Apologetic.
“ ’Twas rude of you to treat me so,”
She spoke in accents soft and low.
I answered then: “ ’Twas rude, although
How much ’twas rued, I only know.”
—Brooklyn Eagle.
HER FIRST EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. Young Wife (on her first mar
keting tour)—I want two pounds of
beefsteak, and have it rare, please.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The College Graduate.
He thinks that he can run the world
And more, Indeed, the'pity,
For when he comes to hunt a job
He’ll have to walk the city.
—Brooklyn Life.
Hard to Please.
“Mandy,” said Farmer Corntossel,
“I don’t like to complain, but the din
ners you’re givin’ our summer board
ers ain’t up to your best.”
“Well, Hiram, it’s kind o’ hard to
‘tell jes’ what to do. When I was get
tin’ tip all them delicacies some of
the folks come to me and threatened
to leave because they wasn’t gettin’
plain country fare, as advertised.”—
Washington Star.
Safe Enough.
Jeweler—What did you say to that
man when he bought that cheap
watch?
Clerk—I told him it would work like
a charm.
Jeweler—Why did you do that?
Don’t you know we can’t guarantee
those watches to keep time?
Clerk — Well, charms don’t keep
time.—Philadelphia Press.
His Idea.
“Where did you get that black eye?”
asked the judge.
“During the race war, jedge,” said
the tough-looking individual.
“Race war?” repeated the judge.
“Yes, suh; out atde track. Jim said
I was a lobster when I come to pickin’
winners, and I jolted him in de slats.
Den de crowd took sides an’ went at it.”
—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
More Talk for Lean Money.
My. Crimsonbeak—They say that
woman, by getting into different occu
pations formerly monopolized by men,
are reducing the scale of wages.
Mr. Crimsonbeak—Yes; that’s right;
and I see now we’ve got women law
yers. I’m glad of that.
“Why?”
“Well, they’ll charge less and talk
more.”—Yonkers Statesman.
He Wa» Much Obliged.
Tramp—I’m very much obliged for
that piece of fresh bread you gave me,
mum.
Young Housekeeper—You are wel
come.
Tramp—Yes, mum. It was a little
too doughy to eat, mum, but it tight
ened my leaky shoes up elegant.—X. Y.
Weekly.
Good Enough Urn.
Policeman—Is that gun loaded?
Citizen—Of course. I’m hunting for
a young man who took my daughters
out rowing, and tried to scare them
by rocking the boat.
Policeman—Um—I see. He’s right
over there. Be careful not to hit any
body else.—N. Y. Weekly.
A Modern Cursor.
Caesar for the third time declined
the proffered crown.
“Darn it!” he exclaimed, angrily.
“That thing is not at all in style. If \ ou
can’t give me a decent Panama, 1 ciun't
want anything.”
Just then Brutus laughed and went
off to sharpen his stiletto.—N Y Time*
Shotting Him CUT.
Husband (angrily)—Were you al
ways as foolish as you are now ?
Wife (calmly)—No, dear. Don’t y<m
remember that 1 refused you three
times before I was foolish enough to
marry you?—Chicago Daily New*.
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