Bellefonte, Pa., March 30, 1906.
LIFE OF A SILK HAT
WITH CARE ONE MAY BE MADE TO
LAST A HUNDRED YEARS.
And It Can Be Made Over and Over
Again as Long as the Frame Holds
Together — How Its Twenty-nine
Pieces Are Molded Into One.
“Actors use up the old silk hats”
said the hatter. “Actors?’ asked the
listener.
“Actors,” said the hatter, pausing in
the act of lifting a chunk of iron out
of the stove and dropping it in the hol-
low flatiron he carried. *“Actors—I
mean variety actars, of course. They
need them in their business, Haven't
you ever wondered where all the old
silk hats come from when you've seen
the comedians kicking each other's tiles
all over the stage? Well, such places
as mine supply them.
“It takes a good many years to wear
out a silk hat. With proper care they'll
last to be a hundred years old. Of
course before that time the silk will
turn red on top, where it is exposed to
the sun, but that redness can be over-
come for a time. You can make over
a silk hat so long as the frame holds
together.
“There are twenty-nine pieces in a
silk hat, They are the brim, which is
in four pieces; the silk lining, in two;
the foundation, in two; the gossamer
tips between—there are two of these
also; the two coverings for the side
crown, the two for the tips, the three
pieces of plush, the three rubbers, the
underbrim, one piece; the two pieces
of the band and binding, the leather,
one piece; the bow braid, one piece;
the label, one piece; the eyelets, two of
them; the sticker, or piece of court
plaster, joining the sweatband together
in the back.
“Cotton cloth is the foundation of the
silk hat, [It is stiffened with shellac
cut with ammonia and hot water. The |
cloth is cut up in strips, cut on the |
bias, and then stretched on the block
in four thicknesses, one thickness be- |
ing stretched and permitted to dry be- |
fore another is put on. The lining is !
put in first, the cloth being stretched |
over that, and then, after it has been |
permitted to dry, it is ironed on the |
block, powdered gum demar being |
dusted on to prevent the iron from |
sticking to the cloth soaked in shellac. |
“The block is in five pieces, the cen-
ter, the two sides and the two ends, |
which are removed in this order when
the cloth body has dried in shape. The
leading makers get out their hats on
the block they adopt for the style of |
the season, and block makers then imi- |
tate this block until any hatter may |
buy from a New York or Boston block |
maker the season's latest block at a!
reasonable price. |
“The block is then removed from the
shellac cloth shell, and a doffer is in-!
serted to stretch the hat to the required |
size, the block being a trifle small. |
This doffer is simply a felt shape, !
which fits closely to the block, and
thus puts a thickness of felt between |
the hat and the block. The hat is iron-
ed as soon as the doffer is inserted, |
this melting the shellac and permitting |
the cloth shell to adapt itself to the
changed couditions. After the ironing
it is covered with a coat of shellac |
varnish, {or which the hatter now has |
to pay £5 a quart. When it is dry |
again the «ilk plush is put on with al
bot iron, stean:cd on, in fact, :
“This plush comes in rolls like any
ether and is sold by the yard. It is
cut in strips seven inches wide for the |
erown anc two and one-half inches for |
the brim, The top piece having been |
ent out, it iz sewaol to the crown piece |
and i: then put on the cloth shell. Once
on the plush nap is turned back at the
Joint, cut off and stuck on and then |
brushed back, which makes a joining
$0 neat that iv is almost impossible to
detect,
“The hat is put oa a potance block
and potanced, which means simply that
it is huug on a round block of cloth
covered wood which rests on an el
bow iron at the hatter's bench and is
finished over aguin, after having al
ready been finished with a bot fron and
plenty of elbow grease, The edge of
the brim is carled, the hat is trimmed,
bound, the leather sweatband is in-
serted, and then it is ironed again un-
til it shines like glass, After that it is
ready to wear.
“It may be made over whenever the |
change in the modes is great enough |
to make this seem desirable, and when
it gets too dirty it may be washed by
the hatter and thus thoroughly cleans-
el. When he makes it over he strips
the plush from the frame and starts at
the beginning again, just as for a new
hat, with this exception, that he has
the groundwork and has simply to
shape it again. If any piece of the
silk looks worn he will replace it so
deftly that one mar not be detected |
from the other. and thus the silk hat
may be said never to wear out”-— |
Providence Journ i
His Specialty.
Mrs. Knidker—Is your hushand an
after dinner speaker. Mrs. Bocker—No, |
but he does a powerful lot of grumbling
durinz it.—Breoklyn Life.
——
There are ways of showing satisfac
tion without a superabundanve of |
words.~ Philadelphia Bulletin, i
How severe a young man is with the |
love affairs of a widower, and how se- |
vere an elderly man is with the love
afinirs of a young fellow!
The jealousy of the children when
mother cuts the pie isn't anything com- |
pared with that they feel in later years |
vhen father divides It. — Atchison
Globe.
| bed of sand it plunges downward into
| nation,
"what will you live on—love? Brother
love's father.
THE AGILE TIGER.
He Is “Shod With Silence” and Is as
Quick as Lightning.
Most wild animals are specialists—
v : to say, they are highly develop-
¢. _.. ome particular direction. The
tiger is great as a stalker. His feet
seem to be “shod with silence.” R, H.
Elliot, for many years a resident of
India, cited an experience of one of his
neighbors illustrative of this point.
He had been much annoyed by tigers
and at last tied a bullock out in a clear-
ing and took up his own position In a
tree to wait till the tiger should come
after the bait. The ground was cov-
ered with dried leaves, which in hot
weather are so brittle that even the
walking of a bird over them can be
heard for a good distance,
In no very long time a large tiger
slipped out of the forest and slowly
edged toward the bullock. His method
was so elaborate and careful that the
man who saw it usedgy» declare that
it would have been woth 1,000 rupees
to any young sportsman to have wit-
nessed it.
So carefully did he put down each
paw and so gradually did he crush the
leaves under it that not a sound was
to be heard. Between him and the bul-
lock was a stump about four feet high,
with long projecting surface roots.
This, plainly, the tiger looked upon as
a godsend.
He got upon one of the roots, bal-
anced himself carefully and so was
able to walk quickly and silently as
far as the stump. He approached so
gradually and noiselessly and his col-
or against the brown leaves was so
invisible that he was close upon the
bullock before he was perceived,
Then instantly the bullock charged.
The tiger eluded him and in a moment
more had his paws on the bullock’s
neck ready to drag him down. Then,
like a flash, he caught sight of the
rope by which the bullock was tied
and turned and sprang into the forest,
all so quickly that the man in the tree
had no opportunity to fire. .
me —
SIZE OF A THUNDERBOLT.
Geologists Have a System by Which
Such Measures Are Taken.
“Did you ever see the diameter of a
lightning flash measured?’ asked a
geologist. “Well, here is the ease which
once inclosed a flash of lightning, fitted
it exactly, so that you can see how big
it was, This is ealled a ‘fulgarite,’ or
‘lightning hole,” and the material it is |
made of is glass,
“When a bolt of lightning strikes a
the sand for a distance less or greater,
transforming simultaneously into glass
the silica in the material through which
it passes. Thus by its great heat it |
forms n glass tube of precisely its own |
| size.
“Now and then such a tube, known |
as a fulgarvite, is found and dug up.
Pulgarites have been followed into the |
sand by excavations for nearly thirty
feet. They vary in interior diameter
from the size of a quill to three inches |
or more, according to the ‘hore’ of the |
flash. But fulgarites are not produced
alone in sand, They are found also in |
solid rock. though very naturally of |
slight depth, and frequently existing as |
a thin, glassy covering on the surface. |
“Such fulgarites occur in astonishing
abundance on the summit of Little Ara- |
rat, in Armenia. The rock is so soft |
and porous that blocks a foot long can |
be obtained, perforated in all diree- |
| tions by little tubes filled with bottle |
i
green glass formed from the fused
rock.
“Some wonderful rulgarites were
found by Humboldt on the high Nevada
de ‘Toluca, in Mexico. Masses of the |
rock were covered with a thin layer of |
green glass, Its peculiar shimmer in
the sun led Humboldt to ascend the |
| precipitous peak at the risk of his life.” |
it Won For Sardou.
It is a singular fact that the famous |
| French dramatist Sardou owed his first
success on the boards to his excellent |
handwriting. He had sent in his often
rejected play. “La Taverne des Etudi-
ants,” to the Odeon management for
consideration, and the manuscript was
thrown, with some others, upon a table,
Oue day at rehearsal the charming ac-
tress Mlle. Berengere was attracted by
the handwriting and took up the manu-
script, crying. “Oh, what an exquisite
hand!" She read the play and recom-
mended it so strongly to the directors
that they were induced to read it and
then accept it. At the time Sardou was
starving. He had gone through seven
long years of terrible hardship and pri-
vation.
Hops In England,
The English were taught the uses of
hops by a native Artois, who intro-
duced them into England in 1524. They
met with some hostility, for physicians
represented them as unwholesome, and
pariiament was petitioned against them
a8 a “wicked weed.” In 1528 their use
was prohibited under severe penalties.
Henry VIII. appears to have been prej-
udiced against hops, for in a manu-
script, dated Eltham, January. 1530, oc-
curs an injunction to his brewer “not to
put hops or brimstone” into the ale.
The Living.
Sis—Why did you throw up your sit-
Ernest? Brother—Because 1
am going to get married. Sis—But
—Oh, no! We are going to live on my
Gregson (in alarm)—Great Scott, I've
left my pocketbook under my pillow!
Fisher—Oh, well, your servant is hon-
est, isn't she? Gregson—That's just it.
She'll take it to my wife,
What we call despair is often only the
painful eagerness of unfed hope.—
George Eliot.
and 9,000 feet above the level of the |
A tT SR —————— | TT
SIBERIAN HOSPITALITY.
4 Charming Visit, With a Somewhat
Terrifying Climax,
Detained at the Siberian village of
Krivochokovo, M. Jules Legras re-
membered that he “od a letter to a
notable of the place and hastened to
present it. M. Gautier in his book on
Russia describes in M. Legras’ own
words the cordial hospitality with
which he was received and also tells
of the difficulty which concluded his |
charming visit.
“They had detained me till 10 o'clock
in the evening,” he writes, “by repeat- |
ing, ‘Why are you in a hurry? and 1
was on the point of making my depar-
ture when I heard the mistress of the
house say in a low voice to her hus-
band, ‘Shall T send for the carriage?
To which he replied, ‘No." At this word
a shiver passed over me. Doubtless
this host, who had made me send away
the coachman, was unaware of what
his refusal meant, else he would have |
said to me, ‘Here is a sofa; sleep here.’
“My situation was perilous, but what
could I do? At the end of a few mo-
ments 1 rose to take my leave, and,
having asked if I could get a cab, was
met with the reply that at this hour |
none could be obtained.
“Krivochokovo is a village whose
population constitutes the very flotsam |
and jetsam of Siberian civilization. |
The village has neither streets nor
lights nor police. It is considered a |
cutthroat spot, where honest people |
shut themselves tight at night.
“I had neither stick nor revolver, and |
I had on me a large sum of money. |
Finally, I was ignorant of the exact |
position of my inn, situated over a |
mile away. First of all, dogs threw |
themselves upon me. I shook them off
and started as best I could. i
“The night was inky black. Amid |
the irregular clusters of houses there
was no regular streat by which to |
guide myself. As I hesitated I heard a
‘Who is that? It was a watchman of
a pile of wood who hailed me. He di-
rected me, and, giving me a large
branch that would do as a stick, he
sald: ‘You are wrong, barine, to go
about this way without a revolver.
The place is not safe. May God pro-
tect you!
“As I approached another cluster of
houses a watchman sounded his rattle
menacingly and dogs flew at me sav-
agely. When this watchman approach-
ed 1 induced him to accompany me.
He informed me that the evening be-
fore a traveler who was staying at my
hotel, having started early to catch a
train, had heen assassinated about ten
paces from there. Finally we reached |
the inn. It took a long time to make
them open the door, but I finally got in-
side and reached my room, trembling
with fever and fatigue, and fell down
helplessly, only conscious of having
passed an hour and a half whose re-
membrance will remain with me long.
As for my so amiable host, whose hos-
pitality might have cost me my life, he
will doubtless never know of this ad-
venture.”
Macedonin, i
Macedonia, the land of the three
streams, Vardar, Struma and Vistritsa,
is hemmed in by lofty mountains, of
which the best known or the highest
are Olympus, Shardagh and Rhodope,
the last named rising to between 8,000
sea. It is among the most picturesque
countries of Europe, abounding in mag-
nificent forests, which climb hills,
fringe rivers and cover islands; in wild
mountain scenes, wonderful waterfalls,
silent, sailless lakes—an appropriate
setting for gems of emerald islets, deep
gorges, dizzy mountain paths, smiling |
plains and desolate passes, which ought
to prove an irresistible attraction to
the traveler who regards genuine dan-
ger and real discomfort as the appro-
priate condiment of pleasure.
The Shaving Brush.
It is likely that the best shaving
brush ever made sheds more or less
hairs. To prevent this take an elastic
band, neither too heavy nor too light;
cut it once (not in two, and, holding
one end firmly on the handle, wind the
rubber around the bristles as close up
to the handle as you can, stretching
taut as you wind. When you come to
the end tie a simple flat knot (not a
granny knot) or else lose the end. By
careful winding a very neat job can
be done, and the bristles can be worn
down to the socket without losing a
hair.
A Work of Art.
Miss Knox—There goes Bess Mugley.
Miss Bright--Yes, she played the part
of the heroine in the private theatricals
at the church. Miss Knox—Gracious!
Did she have the face to play the hero-
ine? Miss Bright-—-No, but the cos-
tumer fixed one up for her.—Philadel-
phia Press,
Cast Iron,
Cast iron is extended the five thou-
sand five hundredth part of its length
for every ton of direct strain per square
inch of its section. Its elasticity is fully
excited when extended the one-thou-
sandth part, and the limit of its elas-
ticity is estimated to be found at the
time when it is extended the one thou-
sand two hundredth part of its length.
The tensile strength of the longest piece
of cast iron ever tested was 45970
pounds to the square inch.
He Wasn't Acrobatic.
Miss Prue Dent—Papa says you are
improvident and that he will never
cousent to my marrying a man that is
unable to make both ends meet. Orr-
ville Harduppe — Well, I'm afraid 1
shall never be able te do so. I'm no
contortionist. Good evening. — Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The wise wan is he who nsks a great
deal of advice and takes a very little
of It.
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