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to be broken, literally on account of tlie protection given 

 to the head by the cap, which, instead of collapsing like 

 the buffer of a railway carriage, as a hat does when it 

 is crushed by a fall, transfers to the neck the whole con- 

 cussion of the blow. 



In all hunting hats a small hole should be made, either 

 in the crown or sides, to admit fresh air, and to allow 

 the steam from a hot head to escape, instead of heating 

 the brain and injuring the hair. 



As regards the latter, for the sake not only of our 

 masculine, but of our feminine readers (one of whose 

 innumerable natural ornaments is their hair), we will 

 venture to point out another mistake which is generally 

 committed by our seeking assistance from the inanimate 

 instead of the animate portion of creation. 



We all know that throughout our country, and indeed 

 throughout the world, there are exposed for sale two 

 descriptions of oil ; and as one of them is compressed 

 from vegetables, and the other obtained from animals, 

 without reflecting for a moment, it ought surely, at once, 

 to occur to everybody, that as all things were created 

 good, " according to their kind," vegetable oil would not 

 prove to be " good " for animal substances ; and accord- 

 ingly, every coachman and stable-man concur in testi- 

 fying, on their practical experience, that while animal 

 oil mollifies and preserves all descriptions of bridles 



