Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-01-30
SERIAL SHIRT FRONTS.
An Amazing Iiveution Lately Patented ny
Pennsyivsni2n Who Ksows the weak1
nesses Of Mankind.

eEehnsylvanf8n VINO knoWs the Weaks
nesses of Mankind.
Philadelphia Inauirer.I
eff anybody thinks that the inventive
genius of the American people is ON the
wane he's nopelessly ieft, that's all" re-
marked one Of the leading patent lawyers
of Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. az he
sat with his feet ON the ONCE table and
smoked patent Connecticut cigar war.
ranted 70 deceive the most expert jidge Of
Havana tobacco. "JamA," he continued,
addressing the Office boy, "bring me that
package that came from Washington yea
terday."
The lad produced large paper parcel,
from which the lawyer took what was to
all appearances an ordinary colored shirt,
being apparently OF white linen, with d
small design in the form of erseshoe and
jockey cap stamped all over the bosom and
cuffs.
II have just taken out patent On this
/ for man In Lackawanua County, who
calls IL the Excelsior patent paper shirt
and novelette," Hare the speaker inserted
hss thumb nail ut the bottom of the shirt
bosom and proceeded to tear on q
layer OF the paper Of which the
shirt was made. He then tore of an
other layer, and then another and another,
until six separate sheets in the shape of the
bosom lay on the table, and he still held
what looked like the original shirt In his
hand. "You sec it's a really remarkable
idea. Here Is this shirt, made of very
tough paper, that won't tear without .
great deal Of pressure, and the bosom Is
made up of seven layers, one for each dav
fh the week, IL q man chooses to be lavish
with his linen, or, il he like to be an out
and-out swell, he can change half q dozen
times day. Now, on this sample all the
fronts are the same, but they will be made
in all sorts Of styles, SO that . fellow can
wear this horseshoe figure IL he wants to
60 to Coney Island to the races, or q
crossed base ball bat design IL he is going
out to see the Philadelphias play the Ath-
letics, or neat little design in dots or
bars, or something of that sort, If he is
going of with his girl to Atlantic City
or the matinee. That'll be all fixed by
giving card with each shirt telling the
pattern on each of the seven fronts, which
will be numbered from one to seven.
Enough collars and cuffs will go with each
shirt for the seven fronts, and the whole
outfit will be sold for the small sum of fifty
cents for the assorted patterns and
thirty five cents for the all white. Why,
it's the biggest thing that has been struck
since the telephone was patented"
"But what about the novelette, part of
the scheme?"
"Ah. had orgotten to show you; see
this" and the lawyer handed over ono OF
the torn off shirt fronts, on the back of
which was printed in fine type one chap
ter Of a story entitled: '.The Phantom
Jockey; Romance OF Sheepshead Bay.n
'There YOU are, chapter 1, OF sporting
novelette,, and It's continued and finished
on the other six fronts. or course, some-
times you will run across the same yarn
twice on two shirts, but some thousands of
different stories will be printed, and the
lots made up SC as to give each city and
town as few duplicates as possible. Any
how, the card viii tell you what story is
ON the shirt, and you can be careful not to
buy the same one twice. Some men will
get so interested in the story when they
rip OF Mondays front that they will tear
the whole week of, 80 as to learn tn hero's
fate, but that will be all the better, and is,
indeed, part Of the scheme in printing
them all. Oh, / tell you this invention is
going to be great go, and, aside from it's
other virtues, will do more toward driving
the Chinese laundrymen back to their ma
tive land than all the political howls that
ever were heard"