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Show FRENCH DECLARE HATS A NUISANCE PARIS. Nov. 18. (By The Associated Associat-ed Press.) France and Belgium are waging contradictory Campaigns with reference to tho usefulness of tho hat. Belgian men want to abrogate the tradition requiring public men to go bare-headed at funeral, public ceremonies cere-monies and gatherings. They argue that many statesmen Including the Belgian minister of arts have been victims vic-tims of bad eolds and Influenza due to exposing their cranlums in bad weather. Frenchmen declaro that tho hat should be done away with altogether, because hat.- are a "nuisance and a snar" Eudcllne. manager of tho boxer box-er Criqui. says he never wears a hat and Is never sick. Medical men of France sy that discarding dis-carding of the hat will help to reduce the high price of clothing and will minimize the number of cases of head ailments. oo |