Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-21
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Two Methods of Procedure u Looh1n~
Over Discarded Garments
Spring Is the season Of the year when ali
the unregenerate In mans nature comes
ont. It comes cut il this way. some
morning his wife says 70 him, briskly: 'sMy
dear, I've been looking through the closets
preparatory TO house cleaning, and fnd
that your ..oset IL Just full 81 clothss, and
wish you'd pick out what you want 10
keep and what may give away Then
there are two ways, Ia one Of which the I'M
degenerate In the man displays itself Il
be 10 nothing Of . diplomat, but only an
out-and-outer. he bIurts ont: "Give away
my clothess Not 4 thingi haven't ect
enough now TO put me through the ses-
SON But. my DEAR says the wife,
there's that heavy overcast you haven't
worn for Two winters Surely you don's
want that next summer, do your
Fhe sarcasm finds the loose joint ii his
armor Yes do" be bursts out en-
phatically: ~ want every blessed ran IN
that closet, and don't want you 70 med
die with them. II were TO let ron efve
my things away I'd wake up some morn
ing without suit to my back And 10
ing woman. wise ID her day and rerers-
ton, she says not another word. But the
very next day she gave away i've coats, ten
wafstcoats, four pain OF trousexs and two
topcoats- And her husband never knows Il.
The other type Of husband Is diplomatic.
When his wife makes her suggestion 70
him he not only promises to look over the
things at once, but be does II. His wife a.
tends upon the performances Now he
begins, didactically. . be makes the nrst
plunge into the closet. "T'1l make pile on
this side Of all the things don't want and
l. n hal eff7 ~ . 49, tS -
dear, says his wife 'Therer' with aax{.-
faction ~ be pulls out the coat TO ! heavy
suit. that's the coat was looking for the
! other day I'm going to finish out the
cold weather with this" So it goes over
ON the do pile.
The next thing he fishes out is pair Of
light trousers Now, these" be remarks.
meditatively, as he pulls the legs carefully
and lays them down On the do pile, these
I'm going to have put in order and get lots
OF wear out of all summer" Then eomes
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 il
complete there Is pile on one side that
covers half the floor and is nearly as high
as the mans head On the other side lie
two waistcoats and an old straw hat. That
is what she may give away. And every
garment in the do pile has been 80 skill
fully utilized in the imagination Of the
! wearer that the wife knows the perils Of
disposing of them. and does not try 1t. A
comparison 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 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 he
could not be induced to SELL give away or
/ pawn blessed one of the coats or pair Of
the shoes New York Evening Sun