Beaver County News | 1916-05-19 | Page 2 | Suggests Bows for Men

SUGGESTS BOWS FOR MEN Loose Hats With a Chin Ribbon Hava Been Recommended by a Chicago Doctor. For some centuries man has not been addicted to the hat beautiful, leaving that esthetic creation to woman. wom-an. He has required his headgear head-gear to be utilitarian and comfortable comfort-able nothing more. But now its. utility and comfort are being assailed, by forward-looking iconoclasts. Doctor Doc-tor Reynolds of Chicago avers that the constriction of the masculine lid causes baldness and boldly recommends recom-mends that hats be abandoned altogether. alto-gether. Doctor Skrainka, another health authority, suggests as a compromise com-promise a loose-fitting hat, tied under the chin with ribbons. ( If men act at all in the premises they will probably adopt Doctor Rey- "" nolds' suggestion. Hatless men may be surveyed with some degree ot equanimity, but men dolled up in a Dolly Varden or Salvation Army hat, with a little bow of ribbons under the chin, is unthinkable. Better the stovepipe of our sainted sires than bands and bows tempting man to look upon himself as a thing of beauty and a joke forever.