The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-22
WHAT SHALL WE WEAR2
The Views of Man Who Dresses to Suit
Himself-The Miserable Oravat

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those articles of presumed adornment,
how introduced nobody can exactly
find out. 1t was at first probably in
tended to protect the neck from cold.
Next, possibly, came the desire to
make necessity ornamental, and so
through continued processes of evolu-
ton we arrive at the five-cent necktie,
composed of rag of silk with bit of
pasteboard inside to stiffen it, which is
| neither useful nor ornamental Where
the ends of the necktie hung loose it
| probably formed the scarf. The mod
ern scarf is fraudulent device for hid
ing soiled shirt bosom. 1t is made of
Il larger rag of silk and larger bit of
| pasteboard to give it shape and back
bone. 1t is most profitable source of
income TO the furnishing store and
serves gaily to ornament his show win
dows Often, as thus placed, it inn
pedes the progress of the quite young
man as he journeys through the city
on his own business or that of his EN-
ployer, who stops to gaze at the numer-
Gus array and try to make up his mind
which shade he shall select. 1t is about
the most troublesome article worn by
absent-minded professional or studious
men, who are either above or below
the vanities of dress, and who are too
lazy and slovenly to adjust it Alright
Whereby, as cravat it may hang two
inches from the throat, shirt button, or
suspend itself lamely on one side, ex-
posing more or less of the bosom it is
intended TO conceal. Or as tie, if so
neglected, it is given to creep slyly
around and perch its knot under the
left or right ear. 1t is a source of
great care and anxiety to boys and
young men in the first flush of see-the-
gals home-from-church, and those
young creatures often spend half hours
before the glass before tying the knot
that suits them. Trivial as the cravat
may seem, it is thing that is a sub
iect of human thought, factor in hui
man affairs, and an aid to commerce,
trade and manufacture. 1t helps TO
impede the circulation in the arteries
and veins in the neck. 1t is sometimes
worn so inSanely tight as to choke the
wearer. 1t helps 10 keep the human
throat in an abnormally tender cond-
ton, and is thus a promoter Of colds
and the sale Of medicines and services
OF doctors to cure them.
THE ACCOUNTABLE COLLAR
The shirt-collar originated in fraud
and hypocrisy. In the days when men
first wore linen it came to be the fash
ion to leave more or less of that linen
exposed at the neck to prove the clean
illness of that underneath. This natur-
ally took the form of the collar. Then
genius caught on to the idea of cutting
out a separate piece Of linen in the
shape Of the oyerhanging part and af-
fixing it TO the top of the shirt These
bits of linen could be put on clean ev-
cry day. thus giving the public the i'm
preston that they represented the
cleanliness OF the unseen garment to
which they were attached. They were
in effect fraudulent certificates of such
cleanliness. Hence the collar is but a
base subterfuge of ancient origin. 1t
is as the gold wash on the pinchbeck
jewelry, the rouge on a dead complex
ion, or the voluptuous outline of a new
pair OF corsets The collar is a useful
aid 10 tue crayat in strangling the neck
and making it unduly sensitive to cold.
The collar did not attain its perfection
Of iraudulency and the hight of its in
lquilous hypocrisy until starch was in
vented TO gloss and stfien il. When
this happened mankind forgot that it
wa, a cheat The collar is an unmiti-
gated nuisance in hot weather and of
very little protection in cold. 1t is
joy 10 the young man and nuisance
- the old one.
The wRKTCHED LOSG-TAILED COAT.
The long-taled overcoat must 90 in
the interest Of utility, comfort and free
locOmotion. The Dob-tailed thick jack
ct has nothing to hit against ones
knee, at every step. IT decreases the
weight Of material worn. Warmth for
the lower limbs can be supplied by
thick Undertaking. The pockets OF
the bob-tai are more convenient to
thrust the hands into. On warm or
lukcwarm fall or winter days il may be
worn without the coat underneath ION
a pinch).
TIE HORRIBLE HAT.
The hat is an article Of clothing for
which sometimes no necessity exists.
The civilized hat is nuisance from
youth TO old age. 1t is always falling
from its perch, or being blown oil, or
getting dented, or temporarily lost 1t
monopoIizes the use Of both hands on a
windy day. 1t gives many most I'M
dignited chase. 1t always chooses the
gutter to roll in, unless there is some
dirtier route convenient. 1t is always
contriving to be sat upon. 1t is a source
Of anxiety at church or the theater 1t
makes mems heads bald For the hair,
finding no use as a protection to the
skull, quietly and gradually resigns
and stea.s away. The hat is a means
Of useless extortion from the halter.
That man to be well-dressed should
pay Sc or - for stiff, round box OF
felt to be perched insecurity on his
head, which takes up so much of his
thought when passing under low door
ways or standing under low ceilings
which is not a protection from rain,