That Hat.

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 11

That Hat.

ROME. Tho discovery has been mado. by artists in Rome that what distinguishes the modern woman is her hat. . Tho museums of Romo contain hundreds of statues of famous women of ancient times, from Helen of Troy to Queen Cleopatra, and none, of them wears a hat. Only in very ancient Egyptian times, under some of the Pharaohs, tho women seem to have worn a hat, but it had a pointed triangular shape and was nothing like tho modern creRoman painters and sculptors have raised the question whether a reaction would not be timely, but the city of Monza immediately protests. Monza is 'a town of only 40,000 inhabitants and produces 42,000 hat-shapes of felt a day. It claims that it supplies, twothirds of all the women’s hats ,in the world. If the artists had thoir way and brought about the abolition of hats it would mean the end of the world for Monza. Diana among ancient goddesses wore a kind of headgear and so did Minerva, but it was a sort of helmet rather than a hat. Venus despised it, and no saintly woman canonised by the Church ever wore a hat They all went to heaven with.out ono