The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-08-27
A Rich Mans Tailor Made Clothes.

A New York tailor who makes clothes for
fashionable young men-and fashionable old
men, too, for that matter-says that q
marked change has come over the methods of
some of his customers during the past year
or two. 1t used to be the proper thing for
rich men to make contracts with their tailors
for years supply Of clothes, at SO much per
year. They got a new suit, and wore it as
long as it looked fresh: then tsley would take
it back and obtain a new one in it's stead,
and so they were able to so through the year
III a wel1-dressed way. 1t was an English
custom that the gentlemen imported, and it
was considered quite the necessary way for
several years, till suddenly somebody began
to suspect that it was not quite as economical
as some other plan might be. The same
thing dawned on lots of other people soon
after, and that ended the custom A rich
mans tailor-made wardrobe ON this plan used
to cost anywhere from 81, 600 to s., 900 per
year-in exceptional cases, of course, mount
ing much higher 1t was O bonanza for tho
tailors whose hot iatirons seldom failed to
make creased suit returned by one Gus
toner look bright and fresh enough for
another.
Now rich men are paying for their clothes
as they buy them, at so much per suit The
old style, which did not amount to much
more than u renting of the clothes, and which
went under on the score Of economy, makes
way for o new scheme, which, if the taiioIs
are to be believed, is a good deal more expen-
sive. The average swell in New York society
is spending now from 81, 500 to $4,000 a yeaI
on his tailor, if he is cutting any figure at all
Men do not know much about the cost j,f
clothes and expenses of manufacture. Show
o man a coat that costs $50 and another that
costs $40, and he will seldom hesitate to pay
the $50 difference to get the higher priced
garment.-New York Cor. Argonaut.
Improvement Needed In Park Benches.
OF course these benches are Inadequate to
the accommodation of the multitudes that
visit the parks, and who, sooner or later, are
anxious to sit down and rest. But man and
woman will stand up or walk around long
time before they will sit down alongside peo-
pie whom they do not fancy The park
benches are all as long as if intended to hold
geography class at o common school, and
what usually happens is this: One tramp
takes seat at one end of q bench, and soon
afterward another tramp takes seat ut the.
other end, after which everybody avoids it as
carefully as il it We're newly painted. / never
saw park bench twenty feet long yet tit
would accommodate but two, or, at the most,
three persons. .''.-
The seats provided for visitors should not
be longer than will accommodate two per-
sons. Instead of one long bench there should
be three short ones, ten feet apart. Better
still would be six chairs, six feet apart. A
still greater improvement would be the sub.
stitution of mere stools for the benches An
excellent stool could be made of iron at a
very trifiing expense, and would present
many advantages. A gentleman or lady
could sit on it without without being in ull,
pleasant juxta position to coarse and ill-h&
haved people, and it would not be so com.
Portable that they would wish to occupy ii
hours at a time Moreover, it could not be
defaeed with knives or pencils, and it would
last almost forever. Chicago journal. !;