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Show The Evolution of a Hat. A Park place dealer in head coverings displays In his window "The evolution of a hat." It is a unique exhibition. First there is a grave aud sleepy white rabbit in a cage. Next to his apartment, as a reminder of his possible fate, is a mass of rabbit fur from tbe bodies of some of bis departed fellows. Exhibit 8 in the collec-iou collec-iou is a long, conical affair about the color of a hornet'B nest, and scarcely as symmetrical sym-metrical in form. It is labeled: "Forming "Form-ing the fur into shape." The fourth stage in the evolution is illustrated by an exhibit ex-hibit entitled, "Shrinking the body." j The large gray cone has been contracted j to half its size, but looks as ungainly and as little like a hat as ever. Exhibit 5, I however, looks very like a hat. The gray moss has been dyed black and stiffened, and but for its frayed edges it would make a very decent headgear. The sixth sample shows the finished hat, as handsome hand-some a derby as ever graced a cranium. Its edges are bound, its interior upholstered uphol-stered with white silk, and is such a perfect per-fect hat as would make the sleepy rabbit, marked Exhibit 1, almost willing to die to produce Buch a triumph of art. New York Evening Sun, |