Show HATS ARE A HABIT those used to going without head co rings seem healthy some time io alo I 1 spoke of a young friend of mine wild id recently given up wearing a hat ol 01 on avery occasion when his mental coudie lun n was not liable to be questioned I 1 scarcely think he has pursued his laudable lau dabA pur mir pose during the recent severe but I 1 believe if you take to this kind of thing early enough you may make it last throughout your life I 1 know the other day going along pall mall on one of the coldest days we have had this season I 1 saw one of the smallest bluecoat boys it has ever been my fortune to behold of course without a head covering but he did not seem to feel the cold in the least he was bright and rosy he chattered gayly he laughed merrily he stopped and looked in at the shop windows ana antl he sauntered along slowly as it if it were a summers summer s day I 1 mused over this infinitesimal blue coat and marveled at his inde pen dence of the cutting northeast winds and biting frost and I 1 wondered whether colds in the head were en due to wearing hats and then I 1 noted that he wore yel low stockings now possibly yellow w stockings are an antidote to all hiber nal misery and that Is why my young friend looked so jovial while all ot of us around him were steeped in fur coats and mufflers and misery I 1 do not somehow think that I 1 should look well in yellow stockings but I 1 would gladly don a pair if they would cure me of the ferocious cold from which I 1 am now suffering I 1 should like to see an article in tha the lancet on yellow stockings as a cure for catarrh london graphic |