text:  To wear the hat however in its primitive rotundity was impossible--it would have suited a lady in the West Indies but not in Europe; to tie down the brim would not do it would have been re-adopting the worn-out fashions; so just as was done in the Parisian political revolution a compromise of principles was resorted to--women cut off part of their brims turned the circle into a sort of eccentric oval and rejoiced in the redundant curve projecting now from the left now on the right side of their heads