Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-09-14
The DUDE BY THE SEA,

L ascertained what dudes ouiii
is for the seashore by close observa
ton of one of the species. He bring
with him light overcoat. a straw,
beaver and a derby hat; u dark, cut
away frock suit, light sack suit, al
evening suit. an extra pair of troEser-
and an English shooting jacket, witt
a belt, which he funcies is some kint
of travelling coat. He combine.
these III such d manner as to lrodnc,
a wonderful series of costumes OF
the plan invented by Sir Piercit
| ShaftOn, who tells how his "four suits
of pure and clagant device" nigh: be
so changed about as, "as it We're tC
renew each of them and multiply the
four into Twelve Thus my dude
managed: He came to the hotel
wearing his shooting jacket. his extra
trousers and the derby hat, late in
the afternoon. This gave him an
opportunity to walk up and down
the veranda and display his toilet
before supper He came down to the
supper table attired in the dark cork
screw cutaway suit, and wore the
beaver hat in the smoking room dur
ing the evening. In the morning he
appeared at breakfast wearing the
light sack suit, in which he posed
until dinner time, his head adorned
with the straw hat. After dinner he
began to combine. He put on the
cutaway coat with the extra trousers
and the derby lat, and lasted until
supper-time thus appareled. He
came down to his vesper feed attired
III the trousers that belonged to the
cutaway suit, and his sack coat and
vest with the brown hat. His next
combination was to wear the shooting
jacket, the light trousers and the
derby hat. Now he has begun to
change about with his waistcoats,
and though he has been here ten
days, and changed his spots three
times a day, he has not yet suffered
the ignominy of appearing twice in
the same costume. When he has
made all combinations possible with
these suits which a mathematical
calculation proves to be eighty one
he will change about with his three
scarfs and three scarf-pins, wearing
first the blue scarf and the horse
shoe pin, then the white scarf with
the lawn tennis bat. then the bride
scarf with the bride bit, atterward
the blue scarf and the lawn tennis
bat, then the bride scarf end the
horse shoe. aud so on ad idinitum.
l conceived quite an affection for this
dude-at a distance; he seemed SO
patient while suffering in his clothes,
and l pitied him when he came into
dinner at noon. He had suspendered
up his trousers until he was actually
swinging in them and could not put
his feet to the floor with any certainty
whatever. The table where he had
previously taken his meals was sit
uated in the northeast corner of the
dining room, and when he got to the
foot of the stairs he steadied himself
by the balustrade and got his bear
ings, knowing that to stop on the
way was to topple. Well, he pushed
himself off from the balustrade, held
his head up straight to preserve his
balance and started. But. alas! The
head waiter had seated another per-
SON in the northeast corner, and he
politely ,notioned to the dude to take
a seat in the southwest angle. Of the
dining room. The dude was in
agony. He was wound up and
stcered for the northeast, and to stop
or turn abruptly was destruction.
Therefore he moved on straight ahead
like thing of life, cut a wide circle
about the room, just managed to es-
cape collision with the other tables,
and finally moved intelligently mp
and sank into the chair before the
proper table in a state of collapse
IN. Y. Times.