The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05
VICTIMS OF VANITY.
Men Who Are Enslaved by @
 Love of. Dress.
Some Peculiarities of Clothing Which Are an Index of Character-HOw the Modest Man Attires
 Himself.

same natter and shoemaker, and yet the results will be as utterly different as though the two were born in remote continents and century apart, says Kate Fields Washington.
 There is the man Whose necktie or scarf strap always crawls up his collar and shows above his coat; no matter how much or how little he pays for his neckwear, it always insists upon mak- ing itself painfully conspicuous. This person will invariably be found socially obtuse and lacking in quick perceptive qualities. have seen many learned chemist, many a profound Greek scholar, whose necktie was always crawling up his collar, but never bookmaker, a bunco steerer, smart drummer, comedian or caricaturlst.
 I never saw an earnest worker or a a man who had real and serious duties to perform who wore hat too small for him.
 Many great lawyers and statesmen, cranky but shrewd speculators, popular preachers and history-mak ing generals and editors wear hats too large for them
 
 extinguishers and are stopped in their downward course only by the projec- tion of the ears; but I never saw one who wore hat too small, perched upon the top of his head. Indeed, l might as sert as a positive and invariable fact that. save in cases of dire necessity, such as shipwrecks or utter and hope 1-- t1N a too small for him is a silly, frivolous, conceited creature, with no serious ideas on any subject and only the most f1ippant and shallow views of life and its obligations. Even among tramps and vagabonds the fellow with the ''dinky" derby balanced upon his mop of unkemp. hair is the most hopeless wreck among his class; while there is always gleam of intelligence, spark of hope, in the tramp whose hat is too large for him.
 The man who wears a slope-shoul- dered coat when the resources of the sartorian profession are at his com mand. and who is not driven by neces- sity into any garments that fate may happen to send, is never vigorous, masculine creature. He may be large and stroHg, he may even be an athlete, but the manly habit of mind is never his. Of course, he will seldom be found brutal or p1lgnacious, and he may often have a most delicate and refined taste in matters of art; his manners may be the perfection of punctilious courtesy; but he will never put down mutiny, or save anyone from drowning, or res cue maidens or infants from burning buildings.
 Large, flat shoes are always called sensible" Doubtless they are so. Yet no alert, sharp and clever person, no one intellectually or physically wide awake or "snappy," wears large, flat shoe. You may say that the feet must regulate the size and form of the shoe, but you are wrong; the man who has broad, flat feet made them so by his habit of mind. Most quiet, thought ful persons have large. flat feet. Great hearted, big men, whom women either befool or pet and take care of, are men with large, fiat feet. The small-footed man neither inspires lasting and solid affection TOT is he, on the other hand, made the victim of shrewd and heart less women.
 A man makes his own feet. Just re- member how natty and small your feet were when you went counting Amelia or Clara, and how splay they are now in your easy slippers as you sit before Mrs. Amelia or Mrs. Clara at the break fast table, surrounded by little Tommy, little Amelia and the rest of the young brood. You don't care fig now what your corns don't trouble you. Conse- quently you go stopping through life in shoes made upon No. common sense" last, and are ready to see the shoemaker and go him one better if you feel little pressure anywhere. We'll, some men were born in the con- dition of mind which time and domes- ticity have brought to you, and such men have big feet all their lives.
 Then there are certain collars and certain neclkties which indicate the character of the wearer as accurately as the facial angle or the thickness of the lips. The man who wears a turn down collar of particular sort, with made-up bow fastened by loop of elastic to his collar button, is never vain or anxious to attract attention. This style of neclSwear is positive bid for modest obscurity, and says as plain ly words: ''I dress simply to clothe my nakedness and not to adorn my person, and hold in contempt all who view clothing from any other standpoint"
 Such a person would rather tie a strip of red flannel about the throat, pin his coat together across his chest or wear trousers all tattered and torn than be seen abroad in one of those cheap and hashy scarfs which vulgarity delights in. He would rather spend month in jail than wear choker collar and Q red necktie.
 Japanese EmiSrants.
 Since the milkado of Japan permitted his subjects to emigrate to other coun- tries nearly one hundred thousand of them have left their native land. There