The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-07
how STATESMEN DRESS.
Constant Brain Work not Condu.
Give to Personal Neatuess.
Blue Coat and Brass Buttons
SLOUGH Hat and Rusty Black
"A Quaker Subtitle =
Neat Oressers.
Baltimore AMetican.

Baltimore American.i
The announcement that Paris
which sets the fashion for all tn
world, has discarded blacK and ha'
Freturned to the dark blue suits, will
brass buttons, is hailed with delighI
by Ut least one member of this con-
gress. The venerable Mr.. Poland, O
Vermont, who was as much noted in
his earlier DAYS in Congress for cling
ing to the blue coat and brass buttons
OF his wedding days as was Blue
Jeans Williams for the wearing OF
Jeans, still appears upon the floor OF
the House with II e same dark blue
suit and the sane brass buttons. No
amount of ridicule could persuade
him to lay them aside. He has stood
by his friends in their retirement, and
now that they are coming again into
fashion they will honor him as they
have been honored by him. Sixty
nine years of age, he is as straight as
= q nan of %, and but for his white
beard and hair you would scarcely
think him past fifty. His clothes are
always the samoa dark blue, almost
black, swallow-tail coat, with fiat
brass buttons, and vest and pants OF
the same material, all neatly made,
though not fitting with any degree OF
closeLess. They are carefully
brushed, and present a very tasteful
appearance; and were it not for the
peculiar cut and color, and the odd
appearance of the fiat brass buttons,
Mr. Poland would pass for q of the
best dressed men in the House.
Mr.. Morrison, since the opening OF
the tariff discussion, never seems to
pay any attention to his personal
appearance. His SLOUGH hat is awry,
and banged and twisted to the great
est extreme. His loose fitting black
coat is often rusty, and literally
sprinkled with dust at the shoulders
and collar. 1t is not alone tariff re-
formers who are unkempt in appear
ance, however. though Mills, of
Texas, another OF them, is worthy of
note IN this regard. He is y close !
second to Morrison as regards dress.
The crop of dust upon his Goa collar
and shoulders ia usually pretty nearly
equal to that of the Illinois states
man. His SLOUGH black coat shines
with wear; his thin, gray hair is very
much rumpled; his shoes are guiltless
Of backing; and he has the general
appearance Of man who needs a
brushing up"
MI. Bland, of Missouri, of silver
dollar fame, is another man VINO
needs q guardian 80 far as dress il
concerned. He usually wears q short,
rough, dusty, sack coat, with con-
venlent pockets for his hands. His
vest is well open at the front. bis
hair is rumpled, his beard twisted
and pulled, and this man, who might
he quite good looking, permits him
sells TO be talked about as one of The
worst dressed members of the House.
A man whose dress is quite as pc
cUliar as that of Mr.. Poland is Mr..
Chase, of Rhode Island. He wears a
Quaker suit, the coat a half-swallow-
tail, with narrow standing collars,
edged with velvet, q high-cut tIack
vest, black pants, and a broad
rImmed black hat. He is a quiet,
inoffensive sort of man, who uses the
Quaker thee and thou'' in conver-
satiOn with his fellow churchmen,
but is as "fy" on the tariff question
as any. man on the Republican side.
He bas astonished a great many
people in the House in his short ex-
perience there by his familiarity with
this complicated subject.
Mr.. CulbeIsOn, of Texas, Is a man
who clothes a good6gure very badly.
He is tall. and big, and broad
shouldered. A good tailor and a good
hair dresser would make him q hand
some man, but Culberson makes him
anything but that. His hair always
looks as though he had just gotten
cut Of bed, his beard 10 rough, his
clothes hang loosely upon his we'll
developed form, and there are sus-
picious stains upon his shirt front. /
Senator Butler. of South Carolina, I
who WAS prominent q few years ago !
as an alleged actor in the HAMPTON
massacre. is one of the best dressers
in the Senate. To describe bis dress =
would be difficult, because he has the
happy faculty OF being well dressed 4
without calling attention to the fact. }
His gray hair is always combed, his
always neatly trimmed,
and his handsome face always close
ly shaven. He is tall and we'll
and always appears at his :
ease. He left a leg on one OF the !
battle fields, but walks !,
with a firm elastic tread, scarcely '
al intimatiOn of that tact by
his manner of moving about.
Ex-Governor Dorsheimer, of New
is one of the neatest dressers in .
he House. He usually wears a
Prince Albert coat, buttoned closely
n front, and often has a bouquet ut =
lis buttonhole. His sparse hair and
ron gray side whlskers are we'll =
He is very tall and we'll I
developed, and there is no reason D
Why so good a figure should not be
we'll dressed. He is thought by some p
% resemble President Arthur. y
Bedford, of Colorado, dresses as
BADLY as he looks. Heis not to blame. 70
If course, for his very red hair, and ;.
perhaps not for his red face, but he {;
night dress better. He is wealthy. c.
'nd has a good enough figure, SO that G!
lothes might look well on him, but n
hey never do. Take him on the =
treet, at his home, in the house or
t the Presidents table, he is always
same illy-dressed Bslford. His
lOthes appear never to have been
rushed, and his shirt front is always r
rumpled. They say he can't put on L
clean "biled" shirt without mussiDg
T..
Tom Ochiltree dresses we'll. He
in a plentiful supply of we'll
Iade and well fitting clothes. His
ed hair is usually well brushed and &
Is cheek smoothly shaver. Some Y
mes he appears in 4 black Prince +
Albcrt, closely buttoned across his /
'ell developed stomach; at other
mes in a dark gray suit, neatly
ting; then again in a suite brown,
'hich seems TO he a favorite with
inn, and is 'quite becoming to bis -
,yle of beauty. Whatever may be 1
lid Of Ochiltree, he is certainly one
!, If not the" best dressed man in