To return once again, and finally, to the chimney-pot. Milan has just recently inaugurated her third International Exposition of Industries, Commerce, and Art:—
"An amusing sidelight of the Exhibition is the unprecedented stimulus to the sale of stovepipe hats occasioned by a rigid regulation excluding every other kind from the inaugural function. Such a rigid enforcement is quite unknown in Rome itself, where there are said to be Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and Deputies who are innocent of ever having donned one. The story is told that several provincial Deputies who were invited to Milan were so fearful of mishap that they bought tall hats for their wives as well as themselves" (Vide daily paper).
FOOL'S CAP OF LEATHER, GERMAN.
Worn by the court fool of an Elector of Mayence (seventeenth century).
South Kensington Museum.
[IX]
THE DRESSING
OF THE HAIR,
MOUSTACHIOS,
AND BEARD
"Truewit. A wise lady will keep guard always upon the place, that she may do things securely. I once followed a rude fellow into a chamber, where the poor madam, for haste, and troubled, snatched at her peruke to cover her baldness, and put it on the wrong way.