The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-24
BEING A SWELL.
How It Is Possible to Manage 1t on
a smaIp Salary.

How do manage to be bowling swell
on salary of $500 years repeated
young Trotter. of the treasury depart
ment. TO a Washing ton Star reporter.
Why, my dear boy, it's the simplest
thing in the world. economic on the
necessaries of life SO as todevote my in
come as far as possible to luxuries. can
go without meal with entire philosophy.
but to forego a cigar when Iwant one
would make me feel poor and occasion me
corresponding distress.
I pay $3.50 a week for a comfortable
hall bedroom. am never there except
for sleeping and dressing purposes, aud
it serves me as well as il 1t were a palatiaI
apartment Why should | squander
money in that wasf For my meals / 20
to restaurants. Washington has the
cheapest eating houses in the United
States, and do the thing frugaHy, with
ont starving myself IN the least. Ny
annual expenditure for food and lodging
is certainly not more than 1915
That leaves me a clear 1922 for cloth
ing. fncidentals and amusements. In the
last category the most expensive item is
a horse. That costs me SEQ q month. Il
is well worth the money, because a horse
is not only source OF enjoyment, but an
appurtenance most essential TO what you
call sweetness. go to cash establish
ment suon as are TO be found In every ci ty
where, by paying the money down, / can
get my garments made to order for little
more than half the fashionable tailor's
prices. BY practicing this method / can
dress like lord, including all undercloth-
ing, collars and cuffs, and SO forth, on
500 year. Washing is an extra. For
my neckties get one Ia yards of silk,
thick, handsome silk, white or blue. and
induce one of my young lady acquaint-
ances to cut the stuff in two lenght-
wise, and hem the cut edges, so as to
make two four-in hands, which | tie my
self of course. II you know where to go
for them you can buy the handsomest
possible patent leather shoes ties
for summer use. at $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 I have on cost only $26
and you will not find a more stylish one
in Washington.
Subtract s225 for clothing and real "
necessary incidentals from S825, and you
find that have s600--half of my entire in
come-to throw away upon nothing in par
ticular, that is of Importance. In summer
have one months vacation, which l al
ways spend with friends in one place or
another, so that the outing costs me very
little
Here it is taken for granted that youth
full beaux are DOOR, 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 themselye accountable in
fashinable drawing rooms.
II man would be well dressed, how
ever, It is all important that he should
take care of his clothes. Let him take
off MS best things when he gets home,
hang up hts coat and fold up his trousers
on shelf, with the creases together It
costs very little 20 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 VINO is so
is better received everywhere His
attire Is letter of recommendation TO
strangers, and even his friends cannot
help according him more consideration
on the strength of it,