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Show Eulos For Panama Hats. William C. Hesse, who is the Govern-meut Govern-meut authority on Panama hats, gives the following rules for tho care of your I best Pnnama, says Technical World Magazine. Jon'tt crush up a Pannnia hat as thou'gh it wore a cloth cap. It cannot stand such treatment, it will break. Tho stories of the indestructibility of Panama Pana-ma hats are untrue. Don't attompt to clean a Panama hat yourself except with soap and water. It is folly to use lemon or aci(j bn this sort of hat, and it is the height of follv ? . i-11!0. irresponsible and ignorant street fakir do your cleaning, for ho inevitably uses the rankest acid. Don t fail to brush your Panama at j t least once a day. Straw hats should be brushed as o$tcu as derby hats. 1 brush mine twice a day, and it is as clean at the end of tho summer as it wns at the beginning. Don 't fail to removo a crease that may bo anvwhere in your hat. Such a creaso is hound to cut tho straw. Don ft be careless of rour Panama hat. Treat it with consideration, and it will last you all your life." |