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Show The rfulfunarjrof the llljli Stll Hat. Just 100 jean haretJapeed flucc the InnuRuratlon In Kuropo or Uie high silk hat yclept "the stovepipe" stove-pipe" anj the centronlal annlver-eary' annlver-eary' thereof has been celebraleJ durlDg tbo last neck by the batten of the old world, with all the solemnity solem-nity warranted by the occasion. According to the traditions of the "lilting" fraternity, it us the Quaker Quak-er iheadgear of Benjamin Franklin "which first gave to the Paris hat--t-r-the Idea of the "etoveplpe," and thaTled to IU adoption, lluring the early pait of the century It was regarded oa denoting liberal lib-eral and even republican lews on the part of the nearer. Cut toward 1840 a change took place and It became an emblem of conservatism, con-servatism, while the eoft felt hat auccoeded It as a feature of the revolutionary equipment- liven to this day the wearing of a soft hat by a politician in Kurope bsufllcltut to denote his radical proclivities nud in the ltntish House of Commons ilr.Bradlaughand William O'Brien arealmostthe only members who affect Uiat particular form of headgear. head-gear. Kverbody tlo malTes use Df'tlie high silk hat, nlilcli, notwithstanding not-withstanding th6 fact that It Is universally decried as hoth awkward awk-ward and monstrously ugly, has maintained its supremacy fur Just 100 years. Aeic lcrLTntiur.e. |