National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-08
LIVING AS A FINE ART.
How the Men About Town Make a
Respectable Appearance, Live Well,
aud Make Goth Ends Meet.

boluOulCoh hs bOHlo EoutlcHhhh VI uh-
known resources passes in WOW. "Ho
always soems to have money"
IL is really no business Of the speaker
how tho other lvos so long as he does not
owe him any money or seek to borrow any
from him, but the remark, the outgrowth
OF inquistivnoss and unintontiontial
moannoss, is made all the Same,
Probably tho subject Of tho romark is
. young man with an income from in
horited property-who, aware of his
inability to earn living at any Of tho
professions or clorking because OF deficient
early training (for which his loving
parents, not he, are TO blame)-which
income, though small, no makes equal to
his expenditures in keeping up o respect
able appearance. Probably no turns his
education TO advantage and teaches music
or the languages and translates for pub
fishing houses, keeping his business to
himself for various reasons. Or no is
clerk in q downtown house, whose SAL
airy is probably small. More than likely
he belongs TO that numerous class which
flourishss, particularly in this city
small-fry speculators-mo who have
Mt command some money which they
keep moving like ball Ia the air, in
speculation-now in stocks, mining, and
railroad, now IN oil, getting in and out
in tho day, content with small profits,
and never sustaining heavy losses, by
selling out ON tho first decline. And
when the stock market is not propitious
for their little gamo, rs 1t happens to BIO
| just up ut present, these worthless turn
their speculative gaZe on tho race tracks,
and the numerous meetings, rapidly sue
| nandino oarh nthnr NJ JpFnna parE lnnay
Island, Monmouth park, and Saratoga,
afford them recreation aud profit by
speculating at tho pools.
The number of gentlemen of good ad-
dress, unoxoeptiouablo connections and
affiliations, and excellent attachments,
who exc out living by the precarious
mode indicated, is very largo in this city,
and perhaps in oil large cities.
| In some IL Is tho Unborn speculative
spirit that rules them; thoy would not
60 into any steady, regular business If il
offered ever SO good an opportunity. In
the majority of cases, however, the boys
were educated by overfond parents to
have a contempt for trade and aspire Ia
ono Of the professions, the death Of the
father preventing graduation; or they
were started wrong in life by not having
correct notions of business instilled into
|
turers without recognizing the fact.
Self.respecting and honest, with all the
instincts, as we'll as the manners, Of
gentlemen, they pay their bills and "keeI
their end up" us tho phrase COOS, but
as they are not known to BIO in any regu
lar business, their presence continually
evokes tho exclamation, 81 do not under
stand how no livos p from some man witt
"A probably does not make half no does o.
who is not worthy, so far as accomplish
ments go, to tie his shoes.
There never was time when anything
was so cheap as now, when money wen
further than It does when wisely OK
pended. Some one has paraphrased Bull
wcr in saying that "in tho hands of
man truly great tho penny is create
than the sword" and man using judg
ment In bis expenditures can to-day bu.
100 per cent. moro with his money thai
no could in tho flush times when none,
was comparatively SO much easier to get
No beat can exist long in one locality
and that tho class of mon indicted are no
boats Is evidenced by tho fact that the
arc among US to stay; and the II do no
, understand how no lives should b,
> How he manages to make his money 6
so far 10 beyond my comprehension" an
then the mystery would BIO solved.
Any man about town with knowledg
' of tho town can keep up appearances
. good style on, say, $500 or $4,000 p,
> annum, and eyen less-say 81, 0O0-and y,
apparently have tho best of everything
How! -- r"
Read.
!. Although always we'll dressed in til
latest styles-tho unsophisticated think
ing they get their clothes from the moi
fashionable tailors-these men patroni2
some small-fry tailor on side avenue
! paying about ono-ffth what the aforesai
4 fashionable tailor would charge, bl
9 getting just rs good material and wor
= by exercising their ability in buying, an
getting as good fit by coaching" I'll
n tailor, which the aforesaid fashionab
:, tailor would not submit TO. How Otto
4 you SEQ nOurcau richie, whom you kno
= spends annually on his clothes wifi
!. would DO small fortune to an impccl
y NOUS man, badly dressed-why becau
. no intrusts himself to his tailt
!, who lacks individuality. The be
, tailors sometimes make tho worst fit
4 good fits are only obtained by caref
r; experimenting, which fashionable tailoi
2 always have not tho time to permi
Therefore these men about town. who!
h mode Of subsistence oxcitcs curiosit
9; dress exceedingly we'll for about onc-fifI
: less thar! is popularity supposed. For il
stance, tho other night ut Delmonico's
!. saw one of them in n natty check suit.
r. four-button cutaway coat--that lifted hi
II like glove. l knew he never got Il
% suit from one of the fashionable tailor
\ although tho cut would havo been
y credit to any OF them, and admi
~ ing tho outfit asked him how muC
10 it cost. Being an old friend, he Co
4, fded to me that il had cost him exact
$22 that no had got 1t from tailor
Rivington street, and secured the I'll |
T. repeated trying on" which the humb
s. tailor would submit to cheerfully. III
same suit would have cost him $40 OF al
of the swell tailor establishments. He
a noted for tho variety of scarfs he veal
s. these he buys down town by tho doze
ID and they cost him 25 per cent. less thl
.. one would suppose. SO on all throul
: his toilet Ho 'rooms" on side sire,
y, and the only expenditure he cam
trim" is his club or Delmonico's. IL W
Dsraeli who said that the world was
oyster easily opened by u woll-dross
~ man.
IL These men, if you watch them, you W
see have au eye to business in everythir
ri aud, content with small profits and qui
TURNS they make III speculation IN I
n. street or in pools more than people THU
On for. Or good address and well drcssC
they enjoy life AZ thoy journey throu
nd life, philosophcally going without VIII
at they have not the wherewithaI aud cor
ing their money by al industry a
i. energy and sagacity that, in a care
ps business system, would make them We
successful mon. II is to BIO regretted ii
Z, the misfortune of tho death of a father
~ OF his failure should have blightod tn
prospects at critical age of their you
Ss but as long rs thoy pay their WI
~ owe no one, it should be no ones bu
:. ness how they live, Their success is /
t ,s reward OF their ability and talent; tn
figure closely in specializing, and Cpl
,r. to win" every time, never INDUCING Il