The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1905, Page 15

HE high hat has started bravely on {ts second century, It Is at least one hundred and eight years old, and promises to reach the wo hundred mark. Every artist, every lover of the beau- ‘iful, every exponont of symmetry agrees that the high hat Ss tho ugilest, most Sree: most uncomfortable, | pw? awkward and inconvenient headgear that the dietorted brain of man ever conceived, Yet is has outlived a thou- sand cheaper and prettier etyles, has successfully overcome ridicule and has even ecesstully defied the mandate of no less an arbiter than King Ed- ward VII, Im the Imtter part of the eighteenth century, when the plumed ‘ohapewu’’ wes already obsolete and the Ganiies of the day ‘were tiring of the graceful cocked hat, there was a workliwide do- mand for something original in head- gear, Wiga were going out of atyle. Henceforth @ hat must be worn, not carried. A atartling original mode was the only one that gould hope to catoly The Scarlet Bat. By Fergus Hume. Siycopyrtint, 1905, by the National Press Agency.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Wrank Lancaster loves bilidred eae ar orainee we rourderea 7 Buapected, — H ran, whe pias eye fica ieyer Ba actrees kiown a 2 med Denham aro About, "to Feet, Both rank «i Depham have @ scarlet bat tat. on thelr arin, A Vettor lett by, evank’s om \ mystery, father promises to clear up the mye a Frank's fo An atrange are Who loves Miftred, discovers fg-place, Fran Fred wale me hancaster, from eile sidrrsaa ene Wil coaior will, marry Je munier <charke 1f vans i aun a me nee onoeaied moo Nor own home. mie Hai Teer aa | aster to mend his address aroo fa sent for, He fhe gervant of Frank’ fermi Berry sea) the o'death of rank and of ‘De Benhaan in orate oun man oir fathers lel tet he mherit Unease “ ito, Jarman’ ® to Miidresl, cl way oN the “tations pes = nero whe » Bet od tafetyiney CH. APTER XIX. Continued.) A Story of the Past. “From the time he sent my young Miss Berry, learnt about the fortune from her husband.’ Tamaroo emiled grimly, and then with an ejaculation smote his hands together, ; | looking in @ startled way at Eustace, er | "I know you now, sir, You were sald to have killed Mr. Anchor in San Fran- olsco," “Yes, But I suspect that Berry killed him, And you were the negro who was waiting at his house for him," ‘Y did not wait at the house,” sald Tamaroo, quietly. ‘Mr, Anohor was a friend of my master, and had some of the papers connected with the fortune ft th ‘let bat, When he was goin wie, he told me to come an Then he thought he would m to you, and I waited while ie ‘ated you But I are ng to. id Saw you Spee 3 Sirs chi and ay the ahi ott Who fired itt i t. Berry, ary: eres hen called"’——- jut the knife at Jyyarece. Mi § nid. ws ‘ot this Tamaroo looked te hothing 4 hing. 0 outs sith ned the window and on th he byte to be Jet im, She usually aay aie. tate this hr ee Tamarod saw and | $mester to the lady aunt, It was for , fat reason he parted with him, I re- fmained, but my master would not let ge ationd to him, lest 1 also should) sha »: fake the disease—and I had this to do,” Bie again touched his breast-pocket. "Bo it wes you who sent the money “irom 'Brisco?” “Tt was J, air, My master ¢old me fo wend it, til I could give up the for- fune to’ my young master.” “And you have come to do that?” “Yes, sir, But only to him will I fell the story and give the papers.” Jarman refiected, The old man was evidently most trustworthy, seeing he twiahed to fulfil his mission with the uutmont exactitude, He ocotild safely be told of Hrank’s hiding-place. “Do-night I wal lead Leng Mr, ' paid Jarman, quietly, Fe avenoh, thank Heaven tried ‘Tamaroo, and the tears rolled own bis,biack face. ‘It has been & fare to me, this trust, I wish to give it to my young master and be at rest.” “Oh, that’s all right," replied Hustace @atting the old man on the back. “And we'll be able to baffle this conspiracy?” “Yos,’' cried Tamaroo, wiping his eyes ‘we will save my master, ‘By the way,' asked Jarman, suddon- yao you know a young fellow called a Denham?” eieaakeo nodded, ‘T do, wir, He tr Rhe won of my master’s partner,” (What! < Janman looked pusaled. Partner in what?" Again the negro came obstinate, Wit te 'in the papers,"" he said. “That means I'tl leam nothing un- fot Frenk does," said Jarmen, ‘oar | NY akon ree are m faithful mea- impatient, bath @ i swe t 18. Dur an en ma wate my started. Jar mitted her, Bhe was 0 10 'ank you Kanes 101 oe room. ''Oh!"" “T Gave com anid Maidreds entert tare Ma i hand, "ie “the name let}: to hada a if know me?’ asked Mil- Jecen: thon, was A tthe inauest a uttered ane ha pew t hat Fran! Btarth?" ag A ce: Ton unnat we “Capt. rea Bere Pept ote Ber this hi and sat down, out, Jarman, a to Frank He meted Be ag Hy py et where’ ree he: eae os all that A pene Hes young Penham feen Maton eh filo, ate, Uf do mot think he: knows, of tmy name, unlesn Capt, Berry'-— \ "Ob, he's told him es little as he tet at oe a) fare ag ike thet is ron slipping ) But, 1 may, does Berry know of as “an of those paperst"* forgot Were iy Ho learnt them from"~— Bren, ape watt had be- (Witere thet Rit cchase wand HELP. WANTS. Orrer to-day many nent tee ee rah hale at Bia thave no foar,” add Den- | ’ with Peeswute, "tm | hroush, n't you truat ta: Inno- | the pe he taal Net's her igase avithoat he true aout Pen Laval ee the perverted popular favor of element (the the At that date a Florentine, whose name, vunfortunately perished long before his Wustace, a “Jessamy'' or ‘macaroni!’ eighteenth century “dudes''), It was an age when the man who devised a novel fashton reaped far greater fame than he who merely invented = steazn engine, One stylo after another was suggested and ignominiously rejected, At length, in 1797, some genius “invented” a mix- ture of the cocked hat and the old etyle Quaker, or Puritan hat and in the, following year another fashion leader elevated this production's crown | to the Puritanioal eugar loaf shape; | ‘at the same time narrowing the brim. ‘The orginal high tat was thus on the market. Tt met with more or | ¢avor, especially in France; but not un- til 1903 did it reach ite first full glory. invention, con#tructed a bell-crowned, ourly-brimmed, hairy-looking affair of beaver-nap stretched over pasteboard. ‘The whapo, with few modifications, ts the high hat of to-day, It waa usty, @tiff, very henvy, costly and easy to emash, Hence tt caught this public fancy as nothing else had done since the introduction of tobacco into Bu- rope, The style swept across the con- dinent like wildfire, Beau Brummel carried it to England, It had the add- led advantage that only the wealthy could afford {t, The cost’ was $20 end several successive hats were necessary for « single season. George IV, quarrefied bitterly with his erstwhile favorite, Brummel, To accentuate, Perhaps, the latter's count dlagrace, the sovereign decreed a new and quite different fashion of tile; the crown returning .to the sugar-toaf ghape and the brim narrowing and losing its extravagant curl. But even royal prece- dent could not tong enforce the sugar- loaf crown and the bellshapy econ re- turned; although the narrowed brim re- tained tt# favor, Only once or twhoe elnce then, for brief periods, has the sugemtoat’ shape prevailed, The brim, too, except in one or two rare instances, fheas mever returned to ita fonmer tm. menao size or ite sweeping curves. The high hat, after the reign of George III. was threatened with ex.| Eton Not because of lack of favor, men—everybody on both sites of the At-— ‘tinotion, | | 2 aa i KY NOT 3 | PAVE BROADWA $ RAR-MU! For rH! nee BRoO KONE Tl Keep hit sige ota edue: ted th ee ee nie. a he Lee waren P ates Cha sae she” a ed in my acini quietly, and then tool Se aa hieake vai ra ish om a way aire nga in sheor MN edeated ‘Tamaroo, "before tate co waited 7 nied ieae ig . ont Bridal. CURIOUS Incident happened itn A England recently during a wed- ding. |The vicar, supposing the party to be complete, began tho service, "hie quite unconscious of the fact that the ber Sather, who bad. peng ean entered, Tet ‘Dride had not arrived. Thstead of stop- ping him the bridegroom, best man and others remained silent from sheer ner- youmneaa and preabntly, when the per- vico had well, at of proaal ‘the bride Reued | "Bixouse me et Dae DOOOOO: WIT ESE PREUMATIE Marines? A Real ‘‘Noiseless Broadway’’ Would Be Like This: By Ferdinand G. Long. \ Figumaric HOE. OO $600O600006 Broadway merchants below Fulton street asked for a noiseless thoroughfare, and as a step in that direction a wooden pavement will be put down as soon as the Subway obstructions are removed, An Evening World cartoonist here shows how the noiseless idea might have been fully and effectively carried out. “Thatta _MANTON’S 4 ‘plate from the Shoulders to the ime of the skirt. ‘The model te made * of pale blue Mnen, Matertala Tho drege ts closed in- visibly at the back pe ie kevt in place Material required for the medium sine (0 vears) is 6 lk rie? a, 41-3 yards or 3 yards inches wide, Pattern 5088 | outin alzew for aA ot 4 o AS 0 and Daily Fashions Patterns, iv ie on Fashions, saan Yeap Yoarpen "plainly, pee thes ba ANY but because the supply of beavers was running low, Then, just as the world seemed about to get tid of the ugly fashion, @ hero sprang into the breach with a means not only of saving it but of perpetuating and oheapening tho custom's vogue. Ho was a Frenchman. Ho invented silk plush, and proved that a high hat thus covered was both handsomer and lesa coatly than when shaggy beaver hide waa stretched across pasteboard, he pasteboard foundation was also discarded for atiffened cotton shaped on block, This at once cheapened high hate and brought them within the reach of the public at large. Butchers’ boys, schoolboys, apprentices, working lantic adopted the fashion, and a crowd in the street had the bird's-eye aspect ot a stovepipe convention, By this time the crown wan pet- fectly straight like a section of piping, an effort had been made to introduce a rounded top, but this ¢atled in papu- larity, succeeding only in evolving into the derby of to- Bhi In time the high hat lost tte poy with bot th Whalaba and Ih Neti mes the former country, however, it fad is far more commonly worn By the middle of the nineteenth oan: fury the tlle began to be known tn "he Unit tatos as ymbol of states- manentp, Daniel ebater, Lincoln, Grant Grd ovher of various docades hhad'e hat whose pyle, Dooame identified with himself and found countless imitators, Accessory for the Closet, HE bottom part of a closet is of- ten little more than a catoh-all tor boots and dust, A good way to utilise the wasted space is to have & carpenter fit the lower part with a frame which will hold two or three dreasmaker's boxes, These may be bought from a box factory or from one's modiate, They are of heavy cardboard and the top of the lid is arranged eo that it may be lifted without taking out the entire box from the shelf, These boxes may be covered with cretonne, and fitted with brass or nickel handles, to be bought at @ bherdware shop. The shelves which the barpenter ‘thas made for them will then come into service, and one may keep one's boots in the lower drawer and other belongings in the upper one, The wooden framework may be paint- @4 white or @ darker color to make the eretonne ground. Order hy . Telephone Avold the busy orowds and the dusty streets and the orowded oars. Order hy Telephone STOLEN—$250,000! ‘The robbery of $960,000 is an exciting event, When Raffles js concerned in tt , Read all about Every year, at least, a new ‘on the original shape has’ oom vogue, but none Soper far otro | ertinay Sham niey~ pol igealith, th a favor o pome saner or ah powerful influence ont torn nee fo vital [-¥ Sparion ing a ene Meh ty ne. to Nothing, oat Save the Babies. NFANT MORTALITY is something frightful, ‘Ws hard}, roaliag that of all the children born in oi: countries, trenty-twe or nearly o1 oats ie otee recap eitde gi cedprethcg ia one-third, Ge ers re, and are fifteen We do not hesil to say that a timel: Castoria would save @ of th It i ot tees oe re ves, re eenies are occasioned Drops, tinctures and pret syrups sold’. ‘or childreh's [eek eer ae sneer pate coat Properly, opens the” Saturday, May 20th, Sale of ‘Dining-Room Chairs 500 Solid Our Dining-Room Ghaire P (ike — cut), highly lished, have full box seat —price for one ay only (Satur. vs Our regular price $2.50. (Fourth Floor.) Sixth Ave., 20th to 21st St. AMUSEMENTS. AUTOMOBILE RACES, Ovewing To-morrow (Saturday) BARNEY OLDELBLD How ro ‘he ui n by ae Sats ann. ¢ wnlge direct to si rie Par Fneotnl ie 1 ee? 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