HATS AT NIGHT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10589, 22 March 1912, Page 4

HATS AT NIGHT.

Why do men wear hats when they go out*in the evening'?-asks the Melbourne Argus. The wearing c<f hats in the evening, it says, is a convention wliieh has lost all its meaning; it has come to us from other climates, and we have slavishly adopted it, though our own climate robs it of all semblance of rationality. The general doing away with hats by night would amplify the work of the police, for then they would' be quickly able to distinguish true nim fvoui knaves. As for the argument t'ha- the hat is a covering whereby the baldheaded may shelter his infirmity .from the sroffis of an unfeeling world, it may be replied that- we are not as in the dayi.s of the .prophet; baldness has become so nearly 'universal that it no longer exciters i the derision even, of the moat unmannerly, • chikken ; .moreover, it is- well, known that many'men attribute baldi' ness to the..excessive wearing of hats. No, the '.practice has no basis in purereasbn; ''it is indefensible but, like 'many other indefensible practices, it endures. Such is the cowardice of man kind; such is the fearful pmver of a custom which Iras once got itserr established. The.se things are a parable.