Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-09-27 | Page 44 | Why Men Doff Hats to Women

Why Men Doff Hats to Women. We consider a man a i;entleni;iu who takes ot J his hut tn a !adv. At least the ad is thought to j:eni le-anly, poli t e. The oiil:' n of this eut om. according ac-cording to the tie vela nd (Main 1 Valor, lil.e so many other customs common a mo ne, o-cailed ci vili .ed peoples. i;oes baek to primitive tune". When a person was made captive his conqueror stripped "him of hi weapons and clorniiiL' and left him without :m-thine, :m-thine, he eould call hi- ow u. The captive cap-tive was thus made a slave, hit. lack o clntliine beini; evidence e.f his sub.iuua-tion. sub.iuua-tion. W'e need onl to look at t iie sculptures of the Assyrians to st e the truth of this fact. And in Isaiah 2-1 , we ;'i nd t he fol lowi u t: si a t em eel : ''And the Lord said, like i mv servant serv-ant I.aiah hath walked naked and bare toot three vear-; for a sil'H. so shall the kinu ot Asvna lead awav the p-t p-t ia ns ' prisoners and the Kt hiopia n ' captives, voinitx and old. nak-il and barefoot . ' ' The fiis( step, then, iu tracini; the origin of taking off the hat. is the surrender sur-render ot ti;e clolhin:; a'-ioii;; piiniife and ancient peoples as a mar ! ol' submission. sub-mission. The next step is the urn-over-in of the budv as ;i mark of reverence. rever-ence. There aj e all decrees of uneo erina. tboueh ofltui onlv the utoM valuable val-uable parts of the clothing are taken off in the presence of supenors, Captain Cook tells us that dur,!u- lr-slav lr-slav at Tahiti two men came on board ami. as a sieji oi respci, took mi' t!ie ;:rea1er part of their elotliin aud put it on l ook and his friend. ' In Ab . siuia. Spencer tells ns, u was tlie cu-.-t.un for inieriois tn luire their bodie i down tn the girdle before snperioi s, in the presence of e.pinls m,lv corner , of the tunic was renio ed so as to bare jthe shoulder. The baring of the shoul-I shoul-I der. especially t hrou-hont the ;-n'd c.:ist. i-i a ei-siom as common as lakin" l" . t1"1 ll:,t with us. rncleakin- in spuit, is Mtuiiur in o:iL;;n. In Africa the men bare their shoulder and ddT then caps to superior, thus punni'; two custimis in nie. In times ot ,hia'v men raed t'neii lials t ladies to shnu reverence. lint tins was onl , nper f i.na I in mearine A UniL'ht would ride doun a poor peas ant woman ciii winir n lare burden :im ne er think of takinu ,,1'f his hat to her