CHARACTER IN WEARING A HAT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3157, 17 September 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHARACTER IN WEARING A HAT.

There is a great deal of character in the way a man wears his hat, savs a Londom writer. If he wears it perfectly straight ho has a corresponding straightforwardnc«s of character. He is n man to be relied U p On _ s teady, bnsincss-like and with a well balanced temnerament.

If a hat slopes a't the l>ack so that the brim almost touches the neck, its wearer has gond brain power ; it slopes at the hick bee mse its owner is without strong animal propensities which are situated at tho biick of the head and prop a hat up, eo that a man whose hat tilts over his nose has more animality than intellectuality about him.

The man who places his hat on one side is, in vulgar parlance, ' cocky ' and selfrtssertivc. He has a bisr opinion of himself, and will support it with his fists, too. He is srencrnily a sharp chnr.icter ; you won't talVo him in b'lt unless you are extremely careful, he is very likely to take yon in. He can handle the billinrd cue, is partial to cards, and likes to have a ' little bit' on a horse about which hn thinks he knows more than any man breathing , , Then there are some men whoso hats are always too large for them, an , ! were it not for their ears would pretty well smother them. Such men arc -usually as much wrapped up in their thoughts as they arc in their hats. Thoy aro of a philosophic cast of mind and live a pood deal out of the world, for they are generally trying to solve some mighty problerr. —mighty to them—that not one person in a thousand cures an atom about.

Other men go to the opposite extreme, for their hats are invariably too small for them, and ave just perßhed on the topa of their heads, the owneis of which are mineinsr, affected individuals, with, as a rulo nn inordinate love of dress and any amount of selfesteem.

The man who throws his hat on his head anvliow in a careless, happy-go-lucky, in lolont character. He generally has his hands in his pockets, aDd ynu can see any number of his kouus Loafing outside public houses and lounging a-. strtct corners.