The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-03-05

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in which men In my business arc cheat
ed ont OF their money. One Of the clev.
crest tricks ever heard Of in this linz
was 80 wonderful and 20 apart from the
usual ways In which sharpers got ahead
Of as that II Is we'll worth while to do
scribe IT
Some years pgo good-looking and
we'll dressed man. who gave his name
as Thomas Jenkins and had references
with him, which we didn't think IL
worth while to investigate, since the
goods were to be cash on delivery. came
TO my store which was then in Sixth
avenue, and got measured for full suit
Of clothes that was TO cost him S45. He
was just sx feet tall and not at all pc.
culiarly shaped in any way. He was
very precise in giving directions as 70
how the suit was to be built up. and II
was to be ready for him on the follow.
ing Saturday evening at eight o'clock
Mr.. Jankins appeared at the appoin ted
time and went into one 2f the little
dressing rooms to try the suit on. When
he came out into the store again he was
in terrible rage, for the clothes didn't
fit him and looked as though they had
been made for man three inches short
or than he and with chest and stomach
about half as big again as Mr. Jenkins.
The man who had taken his measure was
called up from down stairs, and you
never saw SO surprised look on any
body,s face as there was on his when he
came to examine his work. The book
was consulted, and there, sure enough.
under Mr.. jenkins name was the record
OF his proportions as the man had taken
1t down, but bless your soul, tho pro-
portions were not at all those OF Mr. Jen-
kins as he stood before US in the flesh.
1t was the most singular case of misfit
ever saw, and, Of course, could not
blame my Gus toner either for being
angry or refusing to take the clothes
The upshot was that Jenkins went of
in a powerful huff, and the man who
had taken his measure was discharged.
Au6 oulb was SOU dosuo, Vi COuEScr
"a few days after this another man
came to the store and wanted to have a
suit made for him OF just such materials
as Jenkins had ordered, and when saw
him and sized him up knew that the
jenkins suit would At him to TSaand
SO suggested that he should try 1t on.
He did so, and It fitted him 'shoost like
de paper on de wall, He got the clothes
for twenty dollars, and was glad to get
rid of them. "
Three or four weeks after this / was
talking with another tailor who did
business over in Eighth avenue, and he
told me OF singular case Of misftting
that he had recently had at his store,
although he took the measure himself
and was an expert at the art A man
had ca led at his store and ordered
suit He was short and fat, but when
he came for the O othes and tried them
on they seemed to have boon made for
some other chap, who was rather tall
and had no ~pannch at all to speak of
OF course he refused to take the goods
but luckily, on the next day man had
called whom he sized up, just as l, had
sizea up my customer, and found that
probably he would go into the misfit
suit as slick as a sausage This turned
out to be the fact and the man got the
clothes for less than half the original
price. 1t isn't often that two such CO.
Incidents occur within few days of
each other and we laughed over the
matter as a sartorial curiosity.
within the next two or three months
heard Of several similar cases Of aw-
ful misit and they set me to thinking
A man with a hump half las big as a
bushel basket had given an order to a
Third avenue friend of mine, and when
he came to try it on his hump had all
gone down, and he insisted that he
never had any hump at all, and so re-
fused to take the clothes. We all seemed
to be in luck, both good and bad,
about that time, for within week
hunchback came into my friends store,
and finding that tho misfit suited him
exactly in every particular he paid for
it at greatly reduced rates and disap-
peared.
4. TO make long story short will
tell you just how the trouble came
about At one of the shows in the Bow
cry there was a ontortonist who had
the singular faculty OF being able to tie
himself UP in knots, bring his eyebrows
down under his ohm, and then watt
them back to the top of his head, swell
out his lungs and chest in fearful man
nor, pull one OF his legs Up into his abb
aomen, as it seemed, till he looked like
meditative goose standing on the
other leg, make one arm shorter than
tho other, and, in short do just about
as he pleased with his body. Well, this
chap had Just hired himself out to
twenty or thirty more or fess defurmed
men among his vast acquaintance. taken
their measure. and then. built up on the
exact lines of the. r. abomin ab,e make
up he had gone around to various tail
ors and got measured for them. OF
course, the clothes didn't fit, him and
did fit them. Tho whole affair was SO
supremely ridiculous that nothing was
ever done about it This is the cutest
p ece of swindling tailors l ever heard
Of, or any body else, for that mat ter ~
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