The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
A MANS OLD CLOTHES.
Two Methods of Procedure in Looking
Over Discarded Garments

Spring is the season of the year when all
the unregenerate in 4 man 5 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 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 un-
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 clothes? Not thingl | haven't got
enough now to put me through the sea-
SON." But. my dear" says the wife.
there's that heavy overcoat Sou 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. Ii were to let you give
my things away I'd wake up some morn
ing without suit TO my back" And be-
ing a woman, wise il her day and genera
tiQn, she says not another word. But the
very next day she gave away five coats, ten
topcoats. And her husband never knows it,
The other type of husband is diplomatic
When his wife makes her suggestion to
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 a pile on
this side of ali the things | don't want and
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dear" says his wife. "Therel" 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
Geld 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
Pm going TO nave put in order and get lots
of wear on: 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 |
covers half the floor and is nearly AS high |
as the mans head On the other side lie
two waIstcoats aud 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
of them, and does not try it i
mTsIrison between men and women in
their love for many possessions, when it
comes to clothes, Will show always that it
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 d garment is, no
matter how impossible it 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 be
could not he induced TO sell, give ayvry or
pawn n blessed one Of the coats or pair OF
the shoes.-New York Evening sun.