Volume 99 — A CENTENARIAN.
Reading edition
"This is the centenary of the tall hat."—Daily News.
A hundred years of hideousness, Constricted brows, and strain, and stress! And still, despite humanity's groan, The torturing, "tall-hat" holds its own! What proof more sure and melancholy Of the dire depths of mortal folly? Mad was the hatter who invented The demon "topper," and demented The race that, spite of pain and jeers, Has borne it—for One Hundred Years!