The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
CaSt.OH Clothing.

secondhand Clothes Bought and
Sold was sign on Frankfort street.
"Where do l get my stock?" said the
merchant, in reply to the reporters
question. '.Most of it comes from regu-
lar customers, although occasionally a
garment IS brought in. sometimes get
a good lot of the cheaper grades from
ragmen. l struck bonanza of that
nature down East once. A rag dealer
had bought lot of rags at two cents a
pound. and he sold me all the old clothes
Icould find in them at five cents pound.
found lots of good garments and sold
them at big profit. We don't make
money as we used to. The large retail
clothiers are selling garments so cheap
| that it has ruined our business.
what is the best class of goods?"
"Pantaloons. by all means. Men wear
out as many again pairs of pantaloons
as they do coats and vests, and fire.
quently a man who wouldn't wear a
secondhand coat or vest will come in
and buy pantaloons that have been
worn"
''WhO are your cuStOmers?'
working people of all grades. Wait
ers and bell-boys in hotels are great on
secondhand clothing. They ascertain
the styles of goods and the fashions by
being constantly among well-dressed
men. They make regular trips through
the secondhand clothing stores, and
when they find garment that suits them
they buy 1t and thus rig themselves out
in STYLE
'Do you ever find money or val
uables in the pockets of secondhand
garments?"
Il never ran across but fifty cents in
money in nv life. l find lots of love
letters saying which he produced a
dainty bit of note paper. much crumpled.
upon which the following was written
in delicate, feminine hand:
80 MY DARLING: Could unbosom all that
| which now burns and thrills within me, you
| would then know how deeply, how devotedly
and how entirely love you. Could but lay
pulsasion, you would then know how It
| throbs alone for you. Knowing this as you
do. it sounds strangely when you urge me to
to IN
will come soon enough. Why hasten them?
You are mine by that invisible power which
unites hearts in. bonds that can not be sew
| cred. A love as pure and undefied as ours
| might call forth the appreciation of even the
angels in Heaven. 1t is not of our making,
| and has none of the faint or dross of earth in
| it, and yet you talk of parting. Recall those
| cruel words and write me, IL but one word to
/ bid me h0pe. ONLY YOURS
"Our best business" continued the
secondhand clothes man, lis in mend
ing and cleaning garments? Won't
you have your coat cleaned. 1t needs
1t The most of our mending is in the
line of repairs to tie bottoms of panta-
looms. Nearly everybody here seems to
interfere. You can't imagine what a
knack tits to mend pair of trousers
when there is no cloth to do it with. We
have trick OF turning the garment
wrong side out and finding spare cloth
where the seams have been sewed wide.
When there is none obtainable from
that source we cut out the required
piece from the backs and sew in piece
of cloth of another pattern. AS it is
just below the waistband and usually
covered by the coat it doesn't show.
We do a good business in pressing pan
falcons, which are bagged at the knees
The man who will invent trousers that
won't bag at the knees will make a
fortune. II q man mad the patience
and time he could press his own panta-
looms and keep them looking sleek as