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Show HATS REVEAL LIFE STORIES. Broadawy Dealer Tells Different Stages from Men's Headgear. "No," said the Hroadway hattor, "you can't fool mo on human nature. You can tell any man by his hat. There's the dandy who comes In and biiTs an opera hat and one of those fool things that turns tip square In tho front. There s the tough who never takes a hat until he's tried It on at an angle or 30 d"grees, The .- the skinflint skin-flint that buys one hat a season and sticks to It till the whistle blows. Why, 1 can even tell'ymi tho story of some men's lives by their hats. For Instance, see that sport over there paying five dollars for a rough straw. Well, wnen he first came In hero he used to buy a dozen hats a season, everything from a high silk to an auto cap. Then one dny ho stopped all of a sudden anil took to wearing a derby. " 'You're married,' said I, and ho acknowledged ac-knowledged I had hit It. "A year later he came In, In an awful hurry, and wanted a two-dollar affair. I wasn't irprlsed. "'JIow'b the baby?' 1 asked as I tinnded him the cheap brown derby. ".'Fine,' says lie, Just as if it was perfectly natural the whole world should know ho had a baby. "A week later he came In looking palo and seedy. Ho wanted a black derby and n mourning band. "That was a year ago. lie hasn't been buying many hats since then, but this afternoon he camo In and bought half a dozen of tho best varletleB derby, strnw, silk, auto, tennis, everything every-thing for sport. "I'd like to see tho girl. Hope we'll get tho wedding order, anyway." |