Show II NO TWO HATS EVER ALIKE Made by Machinery or TSJ Hand there Is Sure to Be a Difference There are Ao two things alike fa I alike no this worldnO two atoms two blades of gw alike no two peas alike no two faces alike won del fill most wonderful of nilno two ladles I hats alike lass this thought ever been Impressed upon you while bitting In an assemblage of women Oh the wisdom and forethought ol nature for were each woman to lmv a hat similar to her neighbors wlml nn Infinite variety of additional woes and heartaches and tears the humat race would have had to bear And yet Mathovv Softlelgh born and broil In New York says the Sun knew naught of this Ills tender brnir could not conceive the fact that everything every-thing In this world Is Infinite In its revolutions and ramifications partlc ulaily ladies hats so Matthew backed his poor Judgment with real money and made a wager with his friend Silas Cute that he would soon linn him two hats that were alike Matthew and Silas selected a warm spring day and they walked up and down the great White Way they promenaded Fifth avenue they visited visit-ed the parks they strolled to the eastside east-side tho west side and every other side they visited the theaters time concert halls tho churches from day to day the quest continued until both were weary and footsore They saw Galnsboroughs picture hats sailors hats of straw hats of felt hats with ribbons hats with feathers hats with aigrettes but no two hats alike They saw dreams of red and blue and green as well as nightmares and Incubi of Arabian Nights phantasy There was poetry and prose music and flowers typified In every one but no two alike What Ingenuity they represented repre-sented what ceaseless brain activity what thought what feeling what dell cacy In some which if put into a poem or a symphony would earn him or her a place In the Hall of Fame Matthew lost his bet and It Is well that ho did There should be no twc hats alike there are no two hats alike and there never will be two hats alike Nature like woman is feminine she has a variety of moods of expression of beauty of color of form and figure and a womans hat Is the embodiment the epitome of her every thought her every wish her every desire Not one woman Is like another neither can her hat be And when the time comes that two hats are found alike then will genius havo I reached its limit and the world will I have lost all Its beauty and all that makes life worth living |