The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-09-09
Being a Swell.

How do I manage 10 be bowling
swell on a salary of 81 200 a year? re-
peated young Trotter, Of the treasury de-
partment, to Washington Star reporter.
Why, my dear boy, it's the simplest
thing in the world. I economic on the
necessaries of life so as to devote my in
come as far as possible to luxuries. I
can go without meal with entire phil
osophy, but to forego a cigar when l
want one would make me feel poor and
occasion me corresponding distress
1 pay $3.50 a week for q comfortable
hall bedroom. am never there except
for sleeping and dressing purposes, and
it serves me as well as if it were a pala-
tial apartment. Why should l squander
money in that way? For my meals l
go to restaurants. Washington has the
cheapest eating houses in the United
States, and / do the thing frugally, with
out starving myself in the least. Ny an
null expenditure for food and lodging is
certainly not more than S375.
That leaves me clear ss22 for cloth
ing, ineidentals and amusements. In the
last category the most expensive item is
q horse. That costs me 20 month. 1t
is well worth the money, because horse
is not only a source Of enjoyment, but
an sppurtenance most essential to what
you call sweetness. / 90 to cash estab-
lishment-such ss are to be found in
every eity-where, by paying the money
down, can get my garments made to
order for little more than half the fash
ichable tailor's prices. By practlcing this
method can dress like lord, including
all underclothing, collars and cuffs, and
and so forth, on $500 q year. Washing
is an extra. For my neckties | get |!
yards of some thick, handsome silk
white or blue, and induce one of my
young lady acquaintance TO cut the stuff
in two length-wise, and hem the cut
edges, so as to make two four-ia hands,
which tie myself ofcourse. you
know where to 90 for them yeu can buy
the handsomsst possible patent leather
"ties"-forsummer use, at $3.50 a
pair. White CATERS do not cost much,
and there are few additions to the dress
that contribute more to a generally swell
effect The spring overcoat / have on
cost only SIG, and you viii not find
more stylish one in Washington.
Subtract S225 for clothing and really
necessary ineidentals from ss25, and you
find that 1 have S6OO-half of my entire
income-to throw away upon nothing in
particular, that is of Importance. 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 youth
ful beax are poor, and that very little is
expected Of them. Men are so scarce
that they only have to be polite and pre-
sentable in order TO find themselves &C
ceptable in fashionable drawing rooms.
Ha man would be well 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 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
a letter Of recommendation to strangers.
and even his friends cannot help accord
him more consldera ton on the strength
Of it.