The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22

NewtowR pippius. Then he placed himself III
the hands of the boss artist, who studied him
as if he were model, measured him, and
asked him if he needed his dress suit at once
''Yes, right away" said Phil 81 can't
get it too soon. want He had begun
to tell that be meant to dress himself in that
suit and practice before q mirror until fully
satisfied that he did not look unlike other
men. The boss artist told him to return in
three days; then the old salesman, who had
remained in attendance, remarked:
You have thin fall overcoat, supposed"
''Oh, l won't need an overeuat for a month
yet. Why, there hasn't been bit of frost
up our way" Phil was already appalled, by
the extent of his order
True enough" said the salesman, but it
doesn't do to go out in a dress suit without
an overcoat, you know, unless. you're merely
stepping from your door to q carriage; and
it's hardly the thing even then"
why, Judge DickmanH-
oh yes, those old judges, who wear swat
low tails day in and day out, can. do it; moth
ing wrong about it, of course-only matter
nf taste; but a young fellow don't like to
make himself conspicuous, you know"
Phil meekly purchased an overcOat, and
hurried away with a heavy load on. his con-
science More than three-quarters. of the
hundred dollars his father had given him was
already gone or mortgaged; he had meant to
spend none OF it, except for some things
which he knew his mother craved. Fortu-
nately he had brought some savings. Of his
own, and, as. he informed himself hair cut
ting was not an expensive operation, and tho
clothing salesman had l - him that new hats
did Rot cost much He had nothing else to
spend money for except watch chain; his
father had told hin, to buy one. Indeed, had
not his father told aim to buy clothes?-''lot5
of them" were the old gentleman's exact
words But could his father have known
about evening suits and fall overcoats?
Phil continued in this vein of thought after
he had dropped inbo a BARRIERS chair, but was
startled out of it by finding lather brush
passing over his face He struggled and ez-
claimed:
II wanted my hair cut"
'sYes, sir, so 1 heard you say; but when
shaving has to be done too we like to have
that out of the way first. But beg your
pardon; perhaps you were raising beard"
mo" said Phil, settling himself again in
the chair. At Haynton young men shaved
only on Saturday nights; Phil himself had
shaved only three days before, yet here was
another unexpected expense imposed upon
him by New York custom. Half an hour
afterward he emerged from that shop with
the not entirely satisfactory assurance that
his Oldest friend would not know him at
sight; and when he had bought new hat
and surveyed himself in a long mirror he
was not certain that he would know himself
if he were to encounter another mirror by
accident The replacement of his hard rub
Der watch guard by a thin chain plated with
gold completed the metamorphosis, and a
bootblack whose services he declined set his
mind at rest by calling him dude.
What next to do he scarcely knew. An
inclination to go back to the sloop and sec
how Sol Mantring was getting along at dis
charging the cargo was suppressed by the
thought of what Sol and the crew would say
if they saw him in his new suit. The country
man has some grand qualities that denizens
of cities would do well to initiate, but not all
his moral courage can keep him from feeling
uncomfortable when first he displays himself
in new clothes to old associates. Country
youths have sometimes run away from home
gone to sea, the city, the devil-anywhere
rather than undergo this dreadful ordeal
Suddenly it occurred to him that he was
not far from Tranlay's office; he might make
a call, if only to show that he could, with
proper facilities, look unlike countryman
Besides, he wanted to know all about the iron
business, about which he had seen so many
contradictory assertions in the newspapers.
He entered the store and walked back to-
ward the rallied counting room in which he
saw the head of Haynton's recent summer
boarder A clerk asked him his business; he
replied that he had merely dropped in to see
Mr.. Tramlay The head of the establish
ment looked at Phil without recognition
when this information was impaired, and
advanced with q somewhat impatient air,
which suddenly changed to cordialty as he
exclaimed;
'Why, my dear fellowl excuse me. I
didn't recognize you at first; we can t all of
us have young eyes, you know. Come in;
sit down; make yourself at home. I'm glad
you dropped in; I'm going out to lunch
pretty soon, and do hate to lunch alone"
Phil soon found himself coaxed and assisted
to high office stool at a desk by the window
and all the morning papers placed before
him, while Tramlay said:
Look at the paper two or three minutes
while straighten out middle in Gus
toner's letter; then we'll go out"
Phil took up paper; the advertising
page-which happened to be the tirst-was
very interesting; nevertheless Pills eyes
wandered, for his mind was just then curious
about the iron trade, He looked around
him for indications of the business; but the
only bit Of iron in sight was a paper weight
on the desk before him. Closer scrutiny was
rewarded by the discovery of a bit of angle
iron, few inches long, lying on a window
sill In the meantime the proprietor had
scrubbed a few lines, assorted some papers,
and closed his disk by drawing down the
top. Then he said:
''Now let's 90 in search of peace and com
fort"
II shouldn't think you'd have to leave your
Office for that" said Phil, who hal found the
counting room greatly unlike what he had
| expected.
There's no peace where business is going
on Tramlay replied; although 1 don't
know, after careful thought, of any noisier
| place than New York restaurant. Here we
| are. Come in"
Phil found himself in one of the very large
and noisy places where New York business
men herd about MONDAY Phil protested, in
| the usual rural manner, that he was not at
! all hungry, but Tramlay ordered so skillfully
| that both were duly occupied for an hour.
! Phil found his host attentive, yet occasionally
| absent minded He might have spared him
! self the trouble Of making mental memo
randum to study out the why and wherefore
| of this apparently incongruouS pair of quail
| ties had he known that Tramlay was cudgel-
ing his brain to know how to dispose of his
rural visitor after dinner, without offending.