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【VANISHING OF THE STRAW |
HAT.
CHANGE IN MEN'S FASHIONS.
i- the
-tione-like-beaver-beards, barrister-whis kers and Dundreary weepers vogue of the
shape alternatively known
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sailor or.
boator. Twenty years ago every man of fuehlon wore straw hat in sumra«r, whether he was 16 or 80. How many-wegt: the to-day?
The Strand i
representative a part Through ot Loudun as any that exists, it in the midille of the afternoon, päs a prowit of clerks an! City men, and sprinkling of visitors from the westerly hauts "of Inshion. A conas made a cween Ludgate-circus and Charing Cross at three o'clock opga recent afternoon. when the sin was shining in its glory and. the street was so crowded that one had to come to a dead step every tonyard. gay a score of 2 straw hats worn by men against about 2,000 men who were not wearing straw hats,
It was otierd, also, that most of thei straw-hat wearers were men of middle- !!! Young men, for the most part, wore woft felt hat of the Hornburg shape. About four out of th wore howleri," The cloak-room of a City club showed | thro straw hair 3 homjeru," and 37* 'soft felt hats, la a popular City tavern the score was une straw hat, six howlers,” and 21 Homburgs"
Why this change! A butter could only attribute to the mysterious perizata- tions of fashion, which have, for the tine being, killed the silk hat, the trick- cot, and the tall single collar, just as, a generatini ago. they killed the straw alor hat for women, and as they are now! killing the bort kirt
THE VANISHED FROCS COAT. Twenty yours ago." he said. min would dare to show himself in the Tïy witbont-in-il-bue anda truck-cuit. Who ar a ilk har and a frock-coat nowadays, save at a funeral or a fashion- able garden party? As often as wet, if Amm is immed to one of these fanets, he cannot and his old silk hat. and has to dash to his hatter for a "
in hurry. That the chief way in which we get rid of our old stock. As to bowlers un straws or chief, trade is with the public school, and when the holidays core the buys datly refuse ps war them. They regard then as part of the school uniform, which they are ea
Our titled to drop during the 've
hief trade for straw hat is, with the father, who like the opportunity of sport. ing their Old Boy colours at Lord's during the Public School week (barring the Eton and Harrow match, of course), and also at holiday resorts,
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The ft Homburg hat is thing nowadays, though the bowler shown signs of coming back. So far as we can see, the silk hat has become as rare & thing in London as it used to be in the provine, where a topper used in mark) yon as a doctor unless you were a parson. Comfort is the thing that tells nowadays, and there is no difficulty in combining comfort, with trie."
PERILS OF PROPHECY,
But no man of knowledge is bold en- ugh to prophesy about fashions. As the long skirt and the crinoline show signs of coming, back for women, so, in a year or two, may the silk hat and the frock-mat come back for men. We may even return to peg-top trousers and frogged surcoats, in all matters affreting the adornment of mes the urprising thing is that all attempts to revive colours for mea's even- ing clothes have failed-dismally failed, Even King Edward's navy-blus frock-mat, which looke nivelid not set a fashion; and the völver collar for evening dr conts failed to attract,
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A SLUMP IN SERMONS?
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According to a prominent clergyman of the Chrel or England the standard of preaching has decrited considerably during the last Eventy-five years, and we have to look in vam to day-For a Spurgeon, L Robertson, a Lidklou, or a Phillips Books." The second part of this statement reminds one que vividly how muct of the interest of the public has indeed drifted away from the pulpit. For how to people wuo aie! less than middle-aged to-day will be reminded of anything by tha divines! of these
bey fall almost younger blankly
the names ut their mightier predecessora whose thunderings del ghted the eighteenth century and the echoes of whose eloquences rumblet on long after they were dend in great three-decker volumes. Tillotson's widow "got 2,509 guiness for the manuscripts of her husband's sermons, and what layaan to-day has read a line of Tillotson? It might see, then, that whether or not modera parsons lack silvern urgery and starts the
dinhad take Ευ public Men
We have, it art. interest in their
fact, be argued, ceased to might, in
But the truth enjoy being preached at.
is that never in history have people spent more time iu listening to, voices fr. the pulpit. Only the pulpit has changed. Our fathers, and their secular opinions as well as their maruls laid down for them by their clergy, even the Parson Adamses were can important political force, faymeu now du much of what. paradna tised to do. But there is still a demand for prescuers of some sort. Most people do sull like to hear dogmatic opinions addressed to the
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MUTATO NOMINE. Country Cousin (who has been asking an exasperating number of futile questions during a drive round London, observes Wornwood Seruba): Now, what can that realy magnificent building be, Georga "3 Town Cousin (recollecting the presence bereit of beveral distinguished financiers): That? Why that's known all over the worl it's the Institute of Accountants."
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