The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-16
W. QE.ID'S EPIsTLE.
The Trials OF Putting on STYLE.

could Get along very well except IN one
particular-i wouldn't be allowed to
wear old clothes, cut 10 suit the, instead
Of fashion, made to keep me comfort.
able, instead OF answering the demands
of style. | have a horror of new things
especially of new clothing. I've tried
hundred times to get suit Just in
style" but | always failed. | have
peculiar igu'e--ii'S like the figure g.
coat fits me ups de down as well as
any other way, and the tailurs always
lie 10 me in cutting my measur. once
got a SPLENDID coat. | think it cost me
eleven dollars, and called n tho taiior
six cen tunes while he Has maklug It,
and got into it with fee'iug that |
ought to lise in brown stone house
aud own railroad stock. | got into ;he
car TO % home, when two young men
began to laugh, and one OF them asked
the other if he had heard Of Noah's ar
rival, pointing to my coat. | cot out of
that car, took an alley home, aud then |
took off that coat, jumped on it, thraShed
it on the floor, aud laid i; away forever.
If l ever Ct new pair OF Pantalonns,
and Just besin T. feel tha, have bar
gain. some Que Sings insults ut lheit
shcl ness, lonsness, looseness or tight
ue-s, and 90 home on back street.
IL despair, once wrote the follow
/ ing letter aud sent copies Of it 10 tie
editors of all the eading papers in sew.
eral States:
DEAR SIR-What kind of clothes,
if any. do you wear! / want some
general directions about getting up a
new and nobbv suit, aud some lnforma-
ton about the cost, etc.
here are few Of the answers receiv
cd. Jsmes Gol don Bennett wrote:
II cant give you more than gener-
a! hiot. | think = Turkish lea,horn hat
would become you. II l were you |
wouldn't mind about buying anything
else. If intended for winter suit, you
might also buy nankeeu trowsers, but
you want to roll them w at the bottoms
if you do"
The editor Of Vernon, PAPER r..
piled
Don't ask me. | am now wearing
suit Of clothes made out Of the last
sheet in the house, and have to stand
up to write for fear Of results How
ever, | think 4 coat with a blue dress
braid border about as Yea; thing as is
going. Have the tails clinched on with
wrought iron nails. Never mind about
the rest
Horace Greeley didu't reply for sew
eral weeks, but the letter came AZ length,
and was as follows:
"Your request to borrow my only suit
of clothes Is pretty cheeky Do you
suppose that | can 20 crawling round
hike some (oa'h) alligator? That's all
you Western folks know. Oath |
advise you TO b7 farm. If anybody
ever told YOU that | wore crash vest
he's OATH lar
The editor Of the Cincinnati Enquirer
was very prompt ~ answering. he said:
II have been wearing white vest up
to date (Jauuary(, with nobby pair Of
overals. They set easy, are very cool,
and last like iron. With this suit, and
Roman toga thrown reckl essly across
your back, l don't see why you couldn't
get situation most anywhere where
talent was appreciated. One of my as
sistauts, who writes our celebl ated fash
ion articles, thinks Of getting popIin
suit. bu; is hesitaling whether not TO
get the pants of chiuiz, and thus have
q variety. wouldn't wear anything if
I were you--not unless wanted to .
TIE ei.or OF the Chicago Repabli-
can replied
"a coat made OF two fifty pound -four
sacks, painted a subdued brown, has
lasted one Of my staff month, and looks
we'll yet. Where be got his other things
| DO not know, but he was gone all ole
night aud came back rugged out 10 the
morning. You want white stove-pipe
hat rnyhow, and you can get the rest
OF the suit along as the money comes
handy. Coffee sacking makes a nobby
pair OF pants, but it isn't best to start
out with to much expense
The editor Of the Louisville Courier.
Journal sent the following rep y:
"Get bombaziue coat and have the
tails cut goring. They ought to gore
three ways. If were going to the cx-
pense of full suit, l should get rub.
Der boots reaching up high, aud rub.
Der coat reaching down low. You can
button up the coat closely. | have
saved MANY washing bills this way.
The editor Of the Philadelphia In.
quirer wrote:
"None OF your business, sir run
my paper to suit myself, aud | wear
clothes or not, just as | choose. DOM
think much Of any one who will be led
i by the nose Adam got along very
, we'll, aud you amt any better THAT
Adam, not by - sight. | think I
suit of black and white wooden, with th'
,h leo, "A bod ,