The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-18
BEING A SWELL.
How It Is Possible to Manage It on n
Small Salary.

Small Salary.
How do l manage to be bowling
swell on n salary of $1,000 Il year? re-
pcated young Trotter, of the treasury de-
partmcnt, to Il Washington Star report
CIR. Why, my dear boy, it's the simplest
thing In the world. cconomizc on the
nccessarics OF life so rs to devote my
income as far as possible to luxurics.
can go without n meal with entire phil
osophy, but to forcgo cigar when
want one would make mo feel poor and
occasion me corresponding distress.
pay $3.50 week for comfortable
hall bedroom. am never there cx-
cept for sleeping and dressing purposes,
and it serves me as we'll rs if it were 4
palatial apartment Why should
squandcr 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
S375.
That leaves INC clear $500 for cloth
Eng, incidcntals and amuscmcnts- In
the last category the most expensive
item is horse. That costs Inc 500 II
month. 1t is we'll worth the money,
because horse is not only Il source of
enjoyment, but an appurtenancc most
essential to what YOU call sweetness /
go to cash establishmcnt-such as are
20 be found in every city-whcrc, by
paying the money down, can get my
garments made 10 order for little more
than half the fashionable tailors' prices.
BY practicirg this method can dress
like lord, including all Undertaking,
collars and cuffs, and so forth, ON $500
year. Washing is an extra. For my
nccltics get ~ yards of some thick,
handsome silk. white or blue, and in
ducc 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
10 go for them you can buy the hand
soonest possible patent leather shoes
"tics'-for summer use, ut S2.50 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 S2G, and you will not
find Il more stylish one in Washington.
Subtract So25 for clothing and really
necessary incidentals from 1925, and
you find that have S900-half of my
:ntirc incomc-to throw away upon
nothing in particular, that is of impor-
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 bcauX are poor, and that very
little is expected Of them. Men arc so
scarce that they only have to be polite
and prcscntable in order to find them
selves acceptable in fashionable draw
ing rooms
If n 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 Il shelf, with the creases together.
1t costs very little to dress well-much
less, in fact, than many persons spend
i'll dressing badly. The thing is well
worth studying. In another way also
it pays to he we'll dressed. man who
is SO is better received everywhere. His
attire is Il letter of recommendation to
strangers, and even his friends cannot
help according him more consideration
on the strength of it.