Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-11-29

4 New Phase of the Result of the
Recent Election.

IT Is ACCOUNTED FoR-THE IMMORTALITY OF
BUYING NEW SUITS ExPLAINED-A GREAT
MORAL REFORM WHICH HAS BEEN STARTED
The wind was whistling down the street in
the most approved November style Every gust
was heralded by cloud of leaves and lett in its
course pavements and roadway swept clean az
with a housemaid's broom. The succeeding
gusts. however found traces OF carelessness
and in hooks and corners brought forth stores
Of leaves that had been overlooked. and hur-
ried them along in triumph In the midst OF
this work of exposing the shlftlessness of pre-
cedin1 gusts. the wind found time to play many
FRANKS 1t redeemed the noses of the passers
bv and played all sorts of tricks with their
clothes and hats. 1t seized upon swinging
'ignS and loose pieces of tin on the house
fronts. and made them creak and groan as they
struggled with their fastenings. in their efforts
to get loose and join in the wild frolic.
But this was mere by-play. passing tests
as it were. and it seemed as if it
was not until a shop with a dangling
display of suits of secondhand clothes outside
had been reached that the climax of the winds
wild carnival of fun was attained. How it
bounced upon these human effigies and sent
them whirling about through the air like COM
rany of very agile acrobats doing trapeze act.
How it l0itered about this fascinating scene
and played with its victims, now putting out a
coat to rotund proportions and stealing under
and hl!lng up the pants for giant legs and then
whriing the bulky figures round and round in
the air until one cCuld'think of nothing but a
fat mans circus. This Is what The STAR man
thought as he paused on the pavement and
watched the clothes in the hands, so to speak.
OF particularly sportive and nimble gust OF
wind. Then he caught the eye of the proprie-
tor OF the store, who stood looking through the
glass of the door He had evidently been
watching the fantastic movements Of the
ciothss and apparently did not approve OF such
gOings on. The observer began to conclude
from the frown which gathered on his face that
he was trying to quell the aerial riot by the
moral Influence of his presence. Then the pro-
prletor emerged from the store with a long pole
having hook on the end and reached for a suit
which looked just then like particularly fat
and bulky man doing the giant swing The
suit was seized Just at the moment of triumph
when it reached the highest possible point in its
evolution and was about to gracefully complete
the circle on the other side. but it was hauled in
and at once ANONYMOUSLY flattened ont from a
suit Oh Clothes.
THE CIRCUS ENDS.
Swinging the clothes over his shoulder and
reaching out for another daring gymnast the
dealer remarked to THE STAR man, who was
absorbed in watching the circus transformation:
Nasty day. this Regular northeast wind.
Likely to have snow. don't YOU think"
YES. suppose so, was the rather dreamy
assent. as the observer saw one acrobat after
another meet the tate of the first
Il never expose the clothes of my customers
in this kind OF way" remarked the dealer in
an apologize tone. as he gaZed over his piled
up arms at THE STAR man. apparently anxious
to set himself right in the opinion of possible
customer But you see / have had such a
rush OF business lately that my back yard and
the roof of my back building is filed up
"A b}T boom in the old clothes huSDaaa
should say" remarked the listener casually
tremutOus movement was observed in the
pile OF clothes. and the dealer assuming as dig
nified an attitude as was compatible with his
burden. and the effort to get into the store
backward. said colby
Sir. you are mistaken. This is not an old
Clothes shop, nor fence or a dive" The last
words were emphatic with concentrated scorn
The listener maintained a polite silence and
slowly followed the dealer as he backed into the
store. Throwing the pile of goods on the coun-
ter. he turned to the visitor and said loftily.
with wave of his hand:
docs this look like an old clothes shop? Look
at these suits? Did you ever see such clothes
in a secondhand stOre!"
The visitors eye followed the direction indi-
Gated by the wave of the hand. and glanced up
and down the rows of suits that were SUSPENDED
from frames on the sides and rear of the store
Ihey looked like an aWkard file of soldiers that
had suddenly been halted. and In consequence,
damned up against each other.
DO you see these dress suits" continued the
dealer. drawing out one suit after another from
the line. Look at these fine Prince Albert's
and cutaways and business suits There are no
better clothes made than these"
You keep large stock on hand" remarked
the listener: How much do you loan on suit
of clOthps?"
The remark was an innocent one. but as the
speaker watched the lower Jaw of the dealer
drop. and saw the look of horror on his face he
felt that the last observation had not been
happy one. The dealer, however, gave no ex-
preston to his feeling. but simply handed out
one OF his business cards. This gave the in
formation that suits were dyed and cleaned with
neatness and dispatch by the undersigned.
ION. yes. see" said the visitor; 1.-The clothes
belong to your customers But what lot of
them! Dyeing and cleaning must be popular
this year"
BUSINESS BOOM EXPLAINED.
''Never more so, SIR" was the calm reply. 81
find that / will have to enlarge my premises to
carry on the trade which has lately sprung up.
have heard of hard times, but certainly there
is none In my line. Last year this time l was
doing half the business l am now, but lately
there has been big rush. People don't give
me any time. They come here with suits of
Clothes and say that they want them cleaned or
wear their summer clothes"
Why don't they wear their new winter
suts?' asked the listener.
The dealer screwed up one eye and whistled
softly, and said:
They amt getting any new suits. They
are wearing their old clothes. It's poll
ties that does it. Politics is great
thing. Now do you suppose that the independ-
ents, Dr. Burchard the weather. and The other
things that elected Cleveland took into consid-
Grafton the cleaning and dyeing trade? Perhaps
they did, perhaps they didn't but tell you
that our business is going to do well on account
OF the way the elections turned out. The public
mind is now IN the condition that have been
trying for years to fetch it to- But of all the
means that have employed never once thought
OF change in the administration. l see now
that was the Verythng to do it. Why Just look
at it a minute. Here are people going on from
year to year wasting their money in new clothes
and letting their old clothes hang in their ward
robes, and the cleaning trade languishing in
consequence, while they might better save their
money by coming to u.s."
MANY time have l said to my wife" con.
tinued the dealer, leaning in a reflective man.
ner against the counter, 'that all our trade
wanted was the awakening of the public con-
science. ] put it on moral grounds because
waste is always sin. But now that the tide
not conscience that done it but politics. took
the moral ground in little pamphlet which l
wrote. but never published, and can see now
that 1t was all a mistake. 1t wouldn't have
done any good. You have got to get at the pub
lie In another way"
How did the elections happen to have this
particular effect?" inquired the listener, picking
out seat on small keg of dyeing material
ut Is just as plain as that the cause follows
the effect" said the dealer land that you
know Is a universal law except In such case
as man trundling q Whe0lbarrOW ard then the