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Show Burning Their Ancient Hats The story going the lounds of thei newspaper press t,hat a Kansas county ( suffragist association of 200 women I hurled old hats into a bonfire that t had been built in the public square, and, amid cheers and songs, mnrched around the blaze in celebration of the decision to grant the women of Kan-1 sas the right to vote, has created no little interest in feminine circles, and no doubt will inspire millions evory-whcio evory-whcio to remark that it would be a, good thing if women everywhere would "hurl their old hats into a bon-fiie" bon-fiie" at the close of eacli beason and thus aid in an increased output of headwear and bringing that -'near piosperity" to an actuality. Theie are entirely too many old hats made over bv the economical matron and maid whose expenditures for personal adornment have been considerably curtailed by paterfamilias, who, like a prominent statesman who is reported re-ported to have said- "A hat for any woman ought not to cost more than i $2 2C, whether it is bought of a Fifth-! avenue modiste or a Division-street milliner" (mark tho distinction), ro-stilcts ro-stilcts the female members 'of his family to one hat a season at tho lowest possible price A New York i newspaper, in commenting on the occurrence, oc-currence, says "'It maj be, however, howev-er, that in burning their hats the Kansas women followed an impulse not peculiar to themselves or to their sex. hut one that b merely human. Men, too throw up their hats in moments mo-ments of joyous excitement, and they do it een when the throwing up makes probable or inevitable a fate foi th hats not less conclusive than burning Stock brokers and colleg ians follow the practice with hardh les enthusiasm, and it exists to some degree all through i h.- masculine world." By all means, let there be more burning of old hats and more wearing of tho new The suffragettes might take up that old anti-Blalne war cry used in the first Cleveland campaign, "Burn, burn, burn that letter!" let-ter!" paraphrasing it to "Burn, burn, burn that hat!" whenever a last season's sea-son's niade-ocr hat is seen on the head of au anti-suffragette Millinery Millin-ery Trade Reiew 1 |