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Show luncheon to school, started the fashion by wearing th basket home aa a hat. In ancient times they had the helmet, they had the cap, they had the sun bonnet, but we do not remember of ever aeei-g among pictures of the heroe of either ancient times or medieval Europe any person appearing in a straw hat. It must be an American invention, and as such for a man to assail it is not only an evidence evi-dence of poor taate, but it shows lack of patri !-ism. !-ism. so strong that such a man should be watched, for it is a clear ease he never in his childhood enjoyed en-joyed the luxury of owning and ponsesning, with full title, a striped straw hat, which cost the sum of two. bits, but which in the estimation of the sinall buy who obtained it. .was worth more than the coronation diadem of Queen Mary. j STRAW HATS. I A New York newspaper dcplorcthe fact that a certain cljsa in that great city hss begun warfare upon the atraw hat ; the early sprint; straw hat. Vt'e know by experience that a jrood many people wear straw hats early in the hprintf, especially if jT they have a pretty good one left over from the pre-jj pre-jj vioua year. We know also that a man has a right t" wear anything he pleas so it is renpectablc. We -;. km.w that a lady has a right to go a littlo beyond that; that ia, we have seen a few on the street, and whether they ought to be arrested or not, they are safe because the curiosity of the policeman over-weighs over-weighs hia sense of duty. In onr judgment the 6h s of June is the proper time to put on the straw hat; r that is if a man' salary will justify it; and straw '.V hat are pretty cheap this year, because the sum-;'. sum-;'. . mer ia going fast and there is a large stock on ; hend. But why in a city like New York the people . should gro..- fastidious about the wearing apparel - of any gentleman who happens to have a straw hat left over from last year is incomprehensible. "When lb snow go by in New York and the robins and the lark tome out with their morning songs; wheu Nature put on her spring robes, her main dress of green, adorned with gorgeous liowcrs, we know fn m a far back memory that for a boy to get a new straw hat ia the very acme of his dreams, so much so that for the first few days of its posscKsiou hi does not care a cent whether he has another stitch of clothing on him at all. and so we advise those New "orker lo let the straw hat alone. By the way, we wonder when it originated. We suhpect it rawe from the Five Nation in NV York. Tbey made baskets which were early accepted ac-cepted by the settlers, and it is unite likely that "oiie, more ingenious than the others, fashioned the )in.t straw hat. th- it is potmible that some boy whose mother had bought him a striped red and blue ud white basket in which to carry bis |