New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
Simmer Clothes.

OOlue WTlLcr IN an eXCnanSe VINO mas
been studying up the subject, and looks
at it from scientific standpoint, says
the popular idea that light clothes are
cooler for summer wear than dark is
altogether wrong, and that dark clothes
are very much cooler than light. This
is stab at the time honored linen suit,
and should be frowned down at once.
The linen costume has been handed
down through generations in Ill its Or
iginal beauty, and retains its hollow,
tlabby appearance, and wrinkles, and
general frigid style, that time, or flat
irons, or flannel underclothes cannot
erase. A suit of linen clothes on man
makes him look like the sign of a ''Y an.
kee" in front of ''notion'' store, or
like an icicle dressed in pants, and no
one ever saw more thoroughly defect
cd appearing man, and one who looks
so much as though he had lost his last
friend, and was afraid to look anyone
squarely in the face, as does tho man
who comes out for the first time in the
summer with his last seasons suit OF
linen clothes. He seems to feel that the
whole world and large portion of New
York state are staring at him with field
glasses, and it makes him so nervous,
he trembles. He generally puts on the
clothes in the heat of the day, right
after dinner, and he is half way down
town before he begins to realize the pre-.
dicament he is in, and then he grits his
teeth firmly together, and determines to
wade through, and pay no attention to
the gaping throng. Each and every
separate and distinct wrinkle that was
left in the pants from the day he wore
the clothes the season before, or has &C
cumulated during the winter, stand out
prominently; the green landscape sketch
that he found on the seat of his pants
last season, and which refused to come
out, when persuaded by soap and rub
bling, looms up now on the back breadth,
and the coat which seems to have shrunk
up in the back at least a foot, refuses to
come down and hide the green PLAGUE
on the hurricane deck of the pants.
One leg of the pants he finds has
shrunk about six inches and is gradual
ly climbing towards his knee, while the
heat of the sun, the dampness of the
rain, or the wash-tub seems to have no
effect upon the other leg, except TO twist
it around to the leeway, so the seam,
that should be on the side is brought
around to the 'front.' and both legs bag
at the knees and bind at the ankles and
bulge out in spots whenever the air fills
them, until the legs of the unfortunate
wearer looks like string of these sec.
tional sausage. Then there is the linen
duster. No man ever bought a linen
duster who could explain to even his
own satisfaction, the next day after he
bought it, what on earth he wanted OF
it anyway. There are more scarecrows
and tramps throughout this country to
day that are wearing linen busters and
look of woe, than half the people
think for. 1t is seldom that man il
found in public place twice in one sea-
son with linen suits of clothes on. One
days wear seems to be enough for the
average man. The white summer hat,
the white vest, the low shoes and
checked stockings may be all right fol-
light summer wear; and white pants
hold their own pretty well, but linen
clothes and the linen duster are hollow
mockery, and someone will yet fall up
on the manufacturers of linen suits and
wreck terrible vengeance for all this
suffering. A good pair of close-fitting
double-barrel gun bags beat a pair Of
linen pants all out of style, and don't
attract SO much attention.-Peck's Sun.