THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

May 5, 1899

 

HATS OFF LADIES

 

Members of Monday Club set a Good Example by Removing Their Hats in Church

 

At the last week’s meeting of the Monday club a resolution was introduced and passed providing that the members of the club should remove their hats in church.  A number of the members of this club attend the Methodist church, and last Sunday morning just before the commencement of the sermon, true to the club resolution the hats were removed.  This is certainly a move in the right direction.  During recent years ladies have always removed their hats in the theatre and the same rule should certainly work well in church.  No matter how able the preacher or how good the sermon the person seated in the middle or rear of the church has hard work keeping in touch with the discourse if all he can see in front of him is a millinery creation. If he really desires a look at the speaker he goes home tired out from craning his neck first on one side and then on the other. People should remember that those behind would like to see as well as hear.  The example set by the members of the Monday club is worthy of being followed in all the churches of the city. -  Appleton Crescent.

That is all right, but where in time is a lady going to put her floral or feather display if the church is crowded.  We would suggest an extension rod with a thumb screw arrangement. When a lady removes her hat and places it on the top of the rod, which has a sort of a “form” for holding the hat gracefully, then the rod can be slipped up through the grove out of range of the worshipers in the rear pews.  In that way every lady will preserve her dear hat from harm and not only get credit for having “the latest beauty”, as it is perched high above her, but at the same time give all a chance to see – not the hat, Oh, no! – but the preacher.  This is not “copyrighted” or “patent applied for”.