The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-04
Good Ncn i, sbeut the Shirt.


In the coursesef a confidential 6o,yer-
s.t;nn with a friend who had recently
had two new Shsrts made, we learned
Incidentally tll# the style of building
Shirts had radically changed, and that
tLev were being maize to button in the
front instead Of at the back of tiie i,cek.
The news was good that we could not
believe IL until &te ha6 it directly from
a sbi,tn1aker, whe showed us the ground
man and front eleyation that had been
iirenared ljy architects for the erection
II some fine shirts for our best citizens,
and sure enough the old fashion Of fold
sino doors in front instead of a storm door
hefween the shoulder blades in the back
was the fashiof We have never felt so
much ike passing aresoluton of thanks
to the slliItma ersAnd resolution of
coincidence u {rifs who have got TO
wear the cd oncs.in our life. Those
shirts that button iathe back have bseu
the cause OF more profanity than any
one thing. ShirtS that button in
the back fsNc been the cause of
gssoss, ssa,ns sslsSiss sais Wien ssn tSe hos
male pbyihidtie,,s ESss. "a yeaeh efer its
head and away sro0 ststo the back Of the
neck to button its Aslirt. Talk about
spending thousands If dollars to find
the north pole; # half he money spent
In that way was offere. as reward for
the detection of the nan who invented
shirts that buttoncd inthe back, and he
could be turned loose mong men who
have suffered for yeas by his devilish
contrivance, it would b well expended.
For fourteen years the nen of this coun-
try have been slaves 10 his absurd fash
ion, and more arms hav been cramped,
shoulders dislocated andbacks bent than
would be believed by th,se who have not
seen it. The spectacle of mild-man-
nered man, after getting into his shirt,
making a contortionisl Of himself, an
acrobat, trying to ga on the other
side of himself to button his shirt the
back way, is sad indeed Statistics show
that the buttons on tie back of shirt
always come off the seond week, and in
place of the thin, oysteLshell button that
comes with the shir, the housewife
always sews on a big drawers button,
four sizes larger than the button-hole,
and if he gets the button in the hole the
hole has TO be 'DuShed or washer
put on the button IeXttime. Go through
our prisons, and YOU will find that the
criminals-the bad nen-wear shirts
that button in tie back. They have
been driven to lie d crime by letting
their tempers get he best of them while
searching blindly ior button with one
hand and buttorhoe with the other,
when their back vas turned. They 60
from home mad, and commit crime 10
get even. The bare idea of having
shirts that open il front will give feel
ing of rest to tirel, Dack-aching human
ity. To stand up o the glass and button
shirt and see wlat you are about will
be bliss indeed The thought Of a
generous slit in he bosom of a shirt,
where ones hand MAY wander, is
elysium. There are times-we say it
advisedlv-there are times when the
best of us want q put hand inside a
shirt bosom, but With the old shirt that
buttons in the batk man might as well
be in a burglar-pfoof safe, with the COM
bination lost, as to try TO get in With
the old shirt IL w0uid be necessary to
hire hand. a man stomach has been
a sealed book for fifteen years, with the
old boiler-iron shirt bosom, with no port
holes Occasionally a mans heart aches,
and if he could put a hand on it without
going around the back way and sneak
ing in Under the arm he could tell by the
feeling whether it was unrequltted affec-
ton that allied him or rheumatism
With the new shirt an exploring expedi-
ton can be sent TO the seat of the disease
before it is everlastingly too late. Men
have been wounded, and before they
could be turned over and the entrance
to their shirt found they have bled to
death. The old back-action shirt Is a
fraud, and the new one is a daisy. 1t
may be said by some that the new OPEN
sesame shirt viii show the world the
color of the undershirt. 1t might, if
one was going to use his shirt-bo9som for
a pillow; but fewdo that. And even if
they did-that is the only way that the
world can know that man wears silk
undershirt with monogram on the
front. We hail the new open winter
shirt with delight. and are sure the pub
lie will when they once get their hands
in.-Peck's Sun.