Show HOW prejudices CHANGE in 1797 a man was arrested tor for wearing one of 0 the first silk hats hata in london he was charged with wearing a tall structure having a shiny luster apt to frighten timid people the magistrate considered this so BO menacing that he be bound over the dude in the sum of 2500 not to wear his silk bilk tile again seems but the london dally daily mall however digs the story etory from ancient records of the courts i even within our own generation the driver 0 of the t be first automobile in america was arrested as he piloted his horseless buggy down the streets in chicago in the puritan days men were jailed when they were caught kissing their wives on sunday A hundred years from now many ef c the bitter prejudices and bones of 0 contention of today will seem as ridiculous as the silk ellk hat episode of 1797 and of the first automobile seems to us today |