, 1888-12-20
A RICH TROUSSEAU.
Wedding Outfit for Fashionable
Spokaneites.
Two Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars for a Few Things.
six Suits of Underwear at $50 the suit
and seven Doncn silk Hose
at $50 Dozen.

Years agone, before Punch became a
specifc for insomnia, and while 1t was en-
titled 10 consideration as humorous peri.
odical, IL offered its now historical 'ad.
vice to young men aboutto marry-don I.
To-day that advice 10 doubly forceful and
yaluable; not because women are less de-
sirable as wives; on the CONTRARY, some
Of the best wives the world has ever seen
are women; but 1t is now essential that
the bridegroom should have trousseau.
Until recently q trousseau was considered
essentially q prerogative of femininity;
but alack and well day, II is not so now.
The man vino makes up his mind to get
married will do we'll to consider this fact,
for IL is vouched for by no less authority
than the Haberdasher, a. journal
devoted to tho interests OF traders
sively and somewhat vulgarly
known as gents furnishing goods" No
married man can read this article without.
metaphorically speaking. buRging himself
when he reflects that, whatever his mar
ried life has been, he got the knot tied be-
fore the era of male trosseaux began. On
the other hand no bachelor will fail TO find
in this article moral and q warning, and
If this moral and this warning serve to
turn any young man from the broad
guage, all.down-hill path that leadeth to
HlHJTluODy, tuo WiitcI VIII oC OVhtCubs
Let us consider the article in the Haber-
dasher. which Is certainly an authority
upon oil fashionable matters. This atlirms
that mo fashionable young New Yorker
could get married in anything but silk un-
derwear, and Of this he must have suits of
light and medium weight, of some deli
cate tint, such as shrimp pink, pearl, hello,
trope or rose. Six suits Of each will be
enough, at cost of from s3O to $50 per
suit, or an average cost Of $40. To these
he can add just as many suits Of fancy Isle
or balbriggan as he wishes, but he will
probably prefer to stick to silk, as being
more exclusive and tony.
SILK UNDERWEAR OR DIVORCE.
It will be seen that the fashionable
young New Yorker" may, if he listeth.
expend $500 or 5000 on underwear. silk
and otherwise. Nay, more; the impress
sion has gone abroad that q young man
cannot truly, madly, and passionately love,
cannot be absolutely and unequivocally de-
voted to his inamorata unless he have six
suits OF silk underwear averaging in cost
$40a suit. and large assortment of fancy
Isle and balbriggau articles. II is suf-
hcient to cause shudder to think OF the
grief and modification of a young and
trusting wife when she discovers that her
deceitful and despicable husband has ne
elected to conform to fashions edict in
this matter. Now that it is an established
fact that six suits of underwear at $40 per
suit are necessary to domestic happiness,
who can find words to denounce the infamy
Of that wretched bridegroom who nefari-
ously enters upon his matrimonial career
with no uDderclothing save that of COM
mon Isle thread and ordinary balbriggan
No doubt, il all were known, we should
find in neglect Of this important matter
one cause OF the large patronage at present
afforded the divorce courts. y. young man.
young man you who are standing upon
the threshold of married life, as ii were
do not, whatever else you neglect, fail to
give heed to your six suits of silk things
at forty per suit. II you do fail in this do
not expect any connubial concord worth
mentioning. From neglect of this will
come a waning of wifely affection, an
oyerstock of woman's tears, cold griddle
cakes for breakfast, luke.warm coffee,
chickering's, Observation-Disclosures, quarrels,
and all the other elements that make up
the prelude to that gruesome symphony
divorce.
FOR STATE OCCASIONS ONLY.
Ii can readily be seen how useful such
articles would be in keeping house, partic-
ularly when of such delicate and aesthetic
colors as shrimp pink, pearl and hello.
trope." IL may be Judged that the articles
are not worn, except. indeed, upon some
ton. 1t would be utter folly TO wear such
things on any occasion of less imposing
maRni6cence; but they would always be
useful and ornamental around the house.
Shrimp pink underwear has been known
to make very recherche portieres, and it is
also unique and pleasing for drapery for
chairs or picture-frames. IL one teaches
in Sabbath school there is nothing that
makes such handsome banner foe the
best little boy to carry as a suit of hello
trope underwear appropriately inscribed.
Pearl underwear is especially appropriate
for frescreens and table scarfs, and is par
ticularly handsome and attractive when
hand-painted with designs in which for
get-me.nots, butterflies and storks mingle
picturesquely. Or, If no use is found for
the articles, in order that their beautv and
costliness may not be lost to the world,
wasted on the desert air, as the poet says.
they may be hung conspicuously In the
front parlor windows, where. with the
price inscribed in large letters, they could
scarcely fail to attract attention.
FINE CLOTHES LINE DISPLAY.
The young man expecting to be married
is counselled also to purchase "seven
dozen pairs Of silk hose at $780," 1t is
needless 10 say that no self.respecting
bridegroom could come before the altar
and vow to love and to cherish fair and
trusting girl for the remainder of their
respective days unless he had provided
himself with ei0hty.four pairs Of stock.
ings at IS u pair. Poor indeed would be
the affection that could not be given ex-
preston in the beautiful and touching
manner implied by this little Investment
in socks. There is no more beautiful
symbol of manly love and devotion than
sock, particularly. silk sock. There is
something about eighty-four pairs of silk
socks, q subtle, mystic influence that goes