| Show Cruel Custom Decrees Decre s Death of the Straw Hat at Midnight I The straw hat Is s doomed d It Is funeral marked ed for destruction Its will be hel held At At ml midnight and anti there thero will b be no mourners It will wm 1 Jr burled buried without of Or f clergy months month IS it has held tie tte attention 0 all The lie man without a straw hat fiat during dur dur- haa lul not been months 1111 ing imig the past few altogether like a man without a coUntry country coun coUn- tr try but ut he lie was uncomfortable Ills 1118 talked about him und and wondered won- won dered 11 way he lie did not stop slop drinking ind save C money enough nough to tu buy a hut hat They criticised etl his hiM wife's clothes a she swept along the and said she ought to have worn her Imer old gown a while longer and have permitted her husband and to get gut a hat He lIe that had tad no straw hat hal s suffered contumely his hili n out were remarked and und he I I I j I was g almost a pariah But Dut all this is hs changed In the past palt the time reign of or the straw hat tat closed ed on September 1 It marIe made madeno no difference If It tho the W weather were er warmer the thc day duy the LImo man threw the hat away than It wu was tS the time dB day ho lie donned It it fashion decreed that he should rid himself 1 of or It on September 1 Of years rS have e med medo l. l to o have tJ been made mae of or sterner stuff The They gave the tra hat fifteen days R grace II B By special dispensation en the straw hat was permitted to to disport ll Itself elC In public until midnight on September Sep Sep- ember 15 16 And ao so the custom run run- leth neth The Time fifteen day clays of or grace have have- ex expired ex- ex and antl he that thai wears a straw hat after today toda runs Iun the risk of being of Jr not having money to o buy a new hat TImer Ther ana may be those who vho will disregard Kard this Ibis an and wear the time h headgear of straw a as long lons cs s It is more comfortable than any other r sort Bort nut Hut these hee men filet arc are not riot being con considered They hey are arc h heroes roe and are tire not bund bound by ty y the rule rules that fetter ordinary moral mor mor- W tale al It 10 is' probable that the pawing IJo Of th he straw hat will III not be observer observed rv In I Salt Lake Probably it will be e permitted per per- putted to go o unwept nn and I unsung listing In the Eat East however howE th the lember of or the Ute stock ock exchanges exchange su sue sue- I pond end their pursuit of the und amet elusive lve r root ot of or all aU evil and amid ha 1 have fun tun I with ith th the straw hat on September 1 15 I j It t Is la a rule unwritten of or those l f t c changes langes that he lie woo wears a a. straw I hat within the confine communes of or the ox- ox I change on September tt mbel 1 15 1 after l' l 12 o'clock noon shall lie IJo sorry orl l Each brok broker r aime himself lr with a stout cane and lion in wait for tor or the time er or of or the straw hat There Is a n grand rand smashing of ot hats when they thoy appear and Il many a hatless one ono emerges tram front Ut th the melee to hasten to a 11 hat toro store and lit fit himself out with the latest creation for tor tall full wear But though there may be no public pub pub- lic lie observance of oC tho the day a tho the straw hat is 12 none the less bees doomed except as aas was aid s-aid before for Cor those heroes who Insist on being comfortable ln- ln in-i in stead of or going with the crowd An And as has lies been lIal said ald before they are not bound b by the ordinary a rules mien j |
