The Irish standard., 1891-05-16
BEING !! A SWELL 81 1 I !.
How It Is Possible to Manage It on
Small Salary.

How 1t Is Possible Go manage H on ~
Small Salary.
How do manage to be a bowling
swell on salary Of 81, 200 q year? re- re-
peated young Trotter, OF the treasury de-
5partment, to a Washington Star report
er. Why, my dear boy, it's the simplest
thing in the world. economic on the
necessaries of life so as to devote my
income asfar as possible to luxuries. !
can go without meal with entire phil
osophy, but to forego a cigar when I
want one would make me feel poor and
occasion me corresponding distress
pay So. SO a week for comfortable
hall bedroom. am never there ex-
cept for sleeping and dressing purposes,
and it serves me as well as if it were a
palatial apartment. Why should I
squander money in that way? For my
meals go to restaurants. Washington
has the cheapest eating houses in the
United States, and do the thing frugal
", without starving myself in the
least. My annual expenditure for food
and lodging is certainly not more than
1875.
That leaves me clear 1922 for cloth
ing, incidentals and amusements. In
the last category the most expensive
item is a horse. That costs me 500
month. It is we'll worth the money,
because horse is not only a source OF
enjoyment, but an appurtenance most
essential to what you call sweetness.
go to a cash esta blishment-such as are
to be found in every city-where, by
paying the money down, can get my
than half the fashionable tailors' prices.
By practicing this method can dress
like lord, including all underclothing,
collars and cuffs, and SO forth, on $500
a year. Washing is an extra. For my
neclties get IA yards of some thick.
handsome silk, white or blue, and in
duce one of my young lady acquaint-
ances to cut the stuff in two length
wise, and hem the cut edges, so as to
make two four-in-hands, which / tie
myself, of course. If you know where
to go for them you can buy the hand
soonest possible patent leather shoes
''ties''-for summer use, at 50. so pair.
White CATERS do not cost much, and
there are few additions to the dress
that contribute more to generally
swell effect. The spring overcoat /
have on cost only $S6, and you will not
find more stylish one in Washington.
Subtract 1926 for clothing and really
necessary incidentals from 1926, and
you find that have $6OO-haf of my
entire income-to throw away upon
nothing in particular, that is OF inpor-
lance. In summer have one months
vacation, which l always spend with
friends in one place Or another, SO that
the outing costs me very little.
Here it is taken for granted that
youthful beaux are poor, and that very
little is expected of them. Men are so
scarce that they only have to be polite
and presentable in order to find them
selves acceptable in fashionable draw
ing rooms.
If a man would be we'll dressed, how
ever, it is all important that he should
take care of his clothes. Let him take
off his best things when he gets home,
hang up his coat and fold up his trousers
on a shelf, with the creases together.
1t costs very little to dress well-much
less, in fact, than many persons spend
in dressing badly. The thing is well
worth studying. In another way also
it pays to be well dressed. A man who
is so is better received everywhere. His
attire is letter of recommendation to
strangers, and even his friends cannot
help according him more consideration
IN tho st,an 9th 0f ~