Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-12-15 | Page 2 | Some Odd Uses for Hats

SOME ODD USES FOR HATS One Was Transformed Into an Aviary and Another Was an Icebox Many will remember a venerable who a year so back used to walk the streeta a large hat on the ribbon of which was wrItten a text late B BP P the American lecturer and essayist used of a of his acquaintance who every Saturday was wont to apprise his of the following days sermon by walking lu a white lint on which was printed the text An eccentric has con his top hat into a perfect amok ers vade mecum TIme inside Is most ingenIously supplied with an of his own so constructed that it will contain a doen cigars a packet of cIgarettes tobacco pipes a cigar hold holder er and There is of course the drawback of weight while os one occasion the matches accidentally Ig tilted to the consternation and utter ot the Vera who thought to beheld a genuine ease of spontaneous combustion Spontaneous combustion by the way was the terror that Initiated a Norfolk gentleman who to guard such an eventuality had his hat supplied with a small tank which on a strIng being would empty Its contents over his ier fl On more than one oc occasion casion on lila being with panic was lila Invention nut into until on further and not such harmless eccentricities he was re inventive was a certain Mu Munich nich doctor holding that an heat was for thc brain caused to be on the to of his hat a small to eon tSin lee in tim summer and hot water iii the wInter A small thermometer projecting through the side at the head headgear gear enabled Its wearer to ascertain the Interior temperature V it could not vie In size with the hat of Mr Wangle Is Ii onto of Lears Nonsense Books as being the resort of all the fowls In the aIr that worn by a eccentric which constructed in the form of ofa a holding some dozen small birds wn assuredly out of the common With thin coverIng on hIs hoed he used to walk the streets until liim causing obstruction to the tr mc his were Inter bY the