Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-25
COSTLY UNDERGRADUATES.
Suits that knock the spots Out OF n Hun
dred-Doliar Note.

Suits that knock the spots Out OF n Hun
dred-Doliar Note.
In q gentlemen's furnishing store up
town, near the Fifth Avenue Hotel, many
wealthy and stylish men buy their linen and
tics. The clerks there wear the latest col
lars, the latest ties. and the latest every
thing. They look like brokers and are very
stylish.
This winter the most stylish Of them
said, we have more novelties than ever be-
fore, and there is really no reason why a
gentleman Of refined tastes and with plenty
Ct o should not be very comfortable.
Here's an Arctic sleeper. You see it's
made after the fashion Of the sacks that men
sleep in at the north pole, only it's made OF
the finest lambs wool, and tied around the
neck with Silken strings. Some of our
Young gentlemen are so delicately nurtured
that a slight cold might be disastrous. They
slide into this, and are protected utterly, no
possibly danger Of slipping their feet out
from under the covers. The wool has a
slightly irritating effect on the skin, that
produces a healthy circulation IN the sur
face and induces sound slumber.
What are theseY' the reporter asked
pointing to what looked like ragged fur
from the back of a kitten.
Those are the very latest driving gloves;
very ugly, I'll admit, but nothing ike them
in the world for warmth. They surpsss
scalskin. buckskin and everything of the
kind. They consist Of o background knit
ted silk. covered inside and out with the
fine silky hair taken from the belly Of a rae
coon, not the coarse, outer hair, but the fine
downy fur that grows beneath. Eleven dol
lars a pair we sell them for, and two hun
bred pairs are out already. There are those
tobogganing gloves, made in London and
shipped to Canada. They re just ont, tight
at the wrist, you see, and running way up
over your oyercoat to your shoulders. You
could slide down from the top Of Mont
Blanc, head first, with a pair of those on,
and you'd never get any snow up your
sleeve. Now, step back this way and I'll
show you the most beautiful thing that you
ever saw in undergarmentS.
Shirts and drawers? inquired the re-
porter.
"Yes, but don't call them hat in this
store, you'd hurt Our more refined custom.
Call them undergarments. Now look at
this"
lie drew out of a fancy box a heavy mass
Of knitted silk, OF the most blue tint.
Now he said, as he stretched
tie garments out .ntO human
form, isn't that the most lovely and
aesthetic thing yol ever saw? Would you
! think that any MAJ could have the heart 10
put such a work Of art on his legs? But
many have, and they 90 like wildfre We
sell them at 500 a suit, and the high price
takes the fancy of the young men who have
nothing to do but to spend money We have
old millionaires for customers, and distiu-
guished statesmen as well; among the latter
President Arthur. Well, not n of those
buys much fancy stock. They got rich buying
meriuo undergarments at 81 or 50 a suit, and
they keep right on that way. It's the rich
Young men who are always having fortunes
lett to them that keep up the trade. We had
one young gentleman who inherited in
one year no less than three fortunes, run
ming from $4,000 to $780, 900. The way
be bought things that he didn't want would
have done sour heart good to see. Here
a lot &C plain linen handkerchiets. They're
very f, e, Just ike ~cobwebs, and sell for 500
o dozen The young nan | spoke OF bought
four dozen of them, and q dozen of these
camers hair socks, with silk heels and toes.
Trey are only Sc a pair, and very comfort
able, bit why he wanted so many can t
understand. We do good business when
youug men are to be married. They get
trousseaus as well as anybody, and they
have 10 nav for it, too. Five hundred dol
Iars is a small price for q good outfit. II
YOU ever Jump off, come around"