Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-12
A MANS OLD CLOTHES.
Two Methods of Procedure In Looking
Over Discarded Garments.

Two Methods of Procedure In Looking
Over Discarded Garments.
Spring is the season of the year when all
the unregenerate in mans nature comes
out. 1t comes out in this way. Some
morning his wife says to him, briskly: "My
dear, I've been looking through the closets
preparatory to house cleaning, and l find
that your closet is just full of clothes, and
wish you'd pick out what you want to
keep and what | may give away" Then
there are two ways, in one of which the I'M
regenerate in the man displays itself. If
he is nothing of a diplomat, but only an
out-and-outer, he blurts out: Give away
my clothesr Not a thing! | haven't got
enough now to put me through the sea-
son." But, my dear" says the wife,
there's that heavy overcoat you haven't
worn for two winters. Surely you don't
want that next summer, do you?''
The sarcasm finds the loose joint in his
armor. YES, | DO" he bursts out en-
phatically; Il want every blessed rag in
that closet, and don't want you to med
die with them. If were to let you give
my things away I'd wake up some morn
ing without suit to my back" And be
ing woman, wise in her day and genera
ton, she says not another word. But the
very next day she gave away five coats, ten
walstcOats, four pairs of trousers and tive
topcoats. And her husband never knows t.
The other type of husband is diplomatic
When his wife makes her suggestion tc
him he not only promises to look over the
things at once, but he does it. His wife at.
tends upon the performance. Now" he
begins, dIdactically, as he makes the first
plunge into the closet, IN make pile on
this side of all the things don't want and
on that side of all the things | do" "Yns,
dear" says his wife THERE" with salts,
faction as he pulls out the coat to a heavy
suit, that's the coat was looking for the
other day. I'm going to finish out the
cold weather with this" So it goes over
on the do pile
The next thing he fishes out is pair of
light trousers. Now, these he remarks,
meditatively, as he pulls the legs carefully
and lays them down on the do pile, these
I'm going TO have put in order and get lots
OF wear out of all summer" Then comes
shabby, heavy overcoat. This / shall
want for blizzard weather next winter /
want you to pack that away where moths
won't get into it" Over goes that on the
do pile,
SO does the next and the next and the
next and the next. When the operation is
complete there is a pile on one side that
covers hall the floor and is nearly as high
as the mans head. On the other side lie
two waistcoats and an old straw hat That
Is what she may give away. And every
garment in the do pile has been so skill
fully utilized in the imagination of the
wearer that the wife knows the perils of
disposIng of them, and does not try it. \
comparison between men and women in
their love for many possessions, when it
comes TO clothes, will show ALWAYS that il
is men who cling to their old clothes, and
not women.
Why, most men are perfect magpies
about their garments. No matter how
frayed or shabby or soiled garment is, no
matter how impossible 1t is that he should
ever want it, he would no more think of
parting with it than he would with his
scalplock. And as for getting clothes
enough, no man ever did that. The writer
knows one man who has eighteen over
coats and forty-three pairs of shoes, and he
could not he induced to sell, give away or
pawn blessed one of the coats or pair of
the shoes.-New York Evening Sun