| Show QUEER nAt HAT J Absurd A Custom t rh brit t Compelled Gladstone to to Borrow Dorrow n Misfit Special Sp Correspondence ormoN ONDON March 2 HaU play an nn L 1 Important portia life he government of the as t grid carried on at the house of commons and the Iho mom memo member ber v who ho disregards dl any nn of ot tho unwritten ten rules that prescribe what he must do and nd what he ho must not do with hla his headgear when engaged In legislating IB le deemed guilty of or an nn offence almost an as serious an as that committed by Mr Dillon when he ho called Mr Chamber Chamberlain lain n a 1 d liar Ilan For some somo rea onor more probably for no reason whatever custom has or ort t 1 1 I 4 tw I i that thai when 7 a In ter nt n to ral 1 a me n of Dark c n mottos hils t ot obar ot of he n put of tobar t must e ss the he Chairman remain sealed on v it til Mr h h Herbert e pp who Ibo p j ld Ili name so JO famous uPon him Is a bl afforded very ery a e t evening of at the tho other aI rY hl hat 0 of 11 OUa to WhIp he Was we th the t against soma me antI call attention boa HI 10 his t one han hit a Of to stretched forth the other to a 1 lint hili other seek fa tor I contrary to seek t title thIs tl to Install It is Ie he lint rot II a been C oa listening e sloe slon With head belill to 10 the his 1 hat his OM ti was 11 h dumb could Mt Gr dumb exactly bUt b not D that without by the knoll a hat on his hie CI Belt elt would be out ot of head he be hI n a point of oC order r In order though I to tang ling down don he did di d i It Even EYen II thIng to 81 on which it If he h had d had the hn balance bllance the tale fats ot till em have been he d permitted i headed lIe He would I have 10 been la It called d to order In not nM and It if that Ei to him hi would h hn hae shouted hoard bo b to drown drohn hi his hla i U Voice olce make he had still nUll heaard hurd without In hIs the And AAd UL ULU ULa It U U n a hat the Id Gt have b been n Io mr t to 10 arrest h consign him to o outer cUler dirt darkness where be beyond wm ond the hallowed hn owed tho cK o of maybe mabe parliament In III tl Ih where parliament hi hil h littlE jail for COl special offender a al hut Bul happily no SUch dire 11 r Herbert Gladstone lone tate fate t II son ot off rand WI 11 Pe ceh d what It we i that uh al em 1 I sealed hili and half II dozea them m their hats 01 tor inviolable tit Oa custom CUllom of which b foul toul l left him a u loophole had of M that bJ means menn since it WM was only Continued on page 2 It HAT UNI hA ETIQUETTE Continued d front from page 28 that he lie should speak with lIall n hat on onan any an fellows hat nt any nn old hat hilt In fact tact Aware of at the tho tango of oC choice al nl loved Icel him hint Mr grabbed tho first hot hat extended extend tl d to him It ft happened to bo be that of Sir Joseph Jo Lees Ices which In III many sizes lihle too big lilg for tor him that mado made no difference It II was sas a 11 hut hat und nail It mi diced to 10 enable him to let loofe loo c tho the pent lip ill Hood gates Kates of ot his hili pru pm tory lory lor without running tho the risk of at any an dire pains and penalties Time rime was when no 11 member would hay ha 11 ventured to appear In ho tho house with any an other othor than a i 1 tall silk hat a II a too stove pipe as It Is called by h tue Iho vulgar And custom cu alto also pro Im that thia tie lie 10 should wear a 1 frock coat It Is true that nn nil old Irish Irl h pat did with sIti a I white whitt hat lint hut but It I is h a n Ira tra tradition I that tho the speaker called him hint to hi hili room flInt remonstrated with him for Cor his hiM violation vl of or traditions Hut the advent of ot the working man member which begun began In iii ISSO 1850 wrought a II change HH 1114 regards the tho requirement that members m should 1111 n a uniform head headgear headgear gear or und and coat cont of ot a n prescribed cut and color A working tunis man member of ot parliament who appeared In n a silk hat a II frock coat cont would have hivo been hem mobbed by h I his hili H constituency con There Therefore tore fore exceptions had hal to 10 bo mado malo In Iii but hlA l and tho ho breach brenchi br soon lOon be became became came clime a tt wide one Members now wear weal any hat they thc please from Crom billy bill cactus to II bowlers but hut parliament In is still n nH rigidly Insistent ns nH ever eer when whon n a nhat ahat hat hal must and ond must not nol be worn |
