Evening star., 1894-02-17


his pocket and flung it in my lap. 1T reads
as though it might have been blocked out
with chalk and tape line and then scis-
sored to fit,' he added as he tied the cords
or his smoking gown and settled himself
| to scent up my curtains and carpets with
his Perfectos. We never could make Dick
stay up in the library to smoke, and he
will insist on bringing his books and pa
pers into my room to read in peace, he
says. l rather like it, however because be
brings me lots of breezy stories, and then
when young man clngs to the society of
his sisters one can feel pretty sure that he
isn't getting very far off wrong. For
Christmas present l gave Dick smoking
gown, of which he is very proud. 1t is of
soft dark red serge, with Innings and cord
Ing of dark blue silk. 1t comes nearly to
his heels and effectually prevents the smoke
from settling on his waistcoat or trousers.
and the fumes that cling to it soon evap-
| crate under the fresh air and sunshine.
| The tailor-made story was funny enough
One gets used to reading stories that are
simply paragraph pegs to hang woman's
! gowns, wraps, hair or hats on, but that
men need or desire such helps does sound
a little odd. This story has for its plot
| an fmpecuniouS young dude who knows
now TO dress rich young woman, who
seems to think that the clothes make the
man-as they did in this case-and the
tailor VINO made the clothes. The dude
| resolved to win the heiress, so he enlisted
the aid of his tailor. "One morning he
were business suit of three button single
breasted sack design, in fine pattern of
| -
he wouli be seen walking at her side arr
rayed In doube-breasted three-button
sack suit of blue-gray cheviot The same
afternoon he would be noticed driving with
! MISS Mehetable adorned for the occasion
IN double-breasted driving oyercoat of a
/ very light shade of a box coating material
put In double-breasted sack style, closing
| with extra large mother-of-pearl buttons"
When the relatives of the infatuated
Mehetable demonstrated with her that the
man man was not what he seemed she insisted
tnat she recognized iii him her ideal man
| from the vanished shoes to the soft dove
| colored texture of the Immediately creas-
| ed trousers, the shape and symmetry of
the money waistcoat and the nodded grace
OF the three-button cutaway coat which
completed the perfection of a summer
suit" When she took occasion to exhibit
| her perfect man to her friends in an after
noon call "Mehetable was rewarded by her
| lovers correct appearance in three-but-
| ton cutaway of black vicuna of a hop sack
! weave, with a waistcoat to match and neat,
small fancy striped trousers to harmonize."
linen she exhibited him at an afternoon re-
| ception, and was delighted when a woman
reporter described him along with the
other buds as having appeared in excel
| lent form clad in a long double-breasted
| frock suit of oxford gray undressed
worsted." though the infatuated Miss Me-
! hetable declared that the description failed
to do her kingly David's clothes justice.
On New Year day David called wearing
three-button cutaway of an oxford mix
ture, undressed worsted, and a double
| breasted waiStcoat of dark genteel fancy
| pattern, closed with four buttons, and
trousers of a gray, with narrow stripes"
| His top coat is described single
| breasted fly front of Venetian cloth, silk
lined to the edge, all of a handsome shade
of drab and cut medium length" At other
| times when the weather had been extreme
| ly cold he had delighted her heart by ap-
pearing in a rich fur beaver overcoat of a
| lovely shade of brown, which probably
| harmonized with his eyes. AS to hats,
neckties, shirts and gloves, he does not
seem to have worn them. or perhaps the
| heads of the other branches of the gen
| tlemen's outfitters" were not up to the
mark as litterateurs.
| 1t was on New Year evening, however.
that he touched the highest point of all
his greatness and fell like a bright ex-
halation." OF course he got full on that
| day-not too full, but full enough to make
him forget his part. He called to take Me-
hetable to the german, and wore IAN un-
| usually well-shaped full-dress coat and trou-
sers to match of a black worsted and a
white silk fancy embroidered double-breast-
ed waiStcoat. Mehetable was not yet
| gowned alas: so her brother enticed David"
/ to the billiard room, for, like all tailors'
dummies. the fashion plate could not talk
a little bit" 1t was warm in the billiard
room and he was light headed, so David
removed his unusually well-shaped dress
coat" and there was where he fell down"
He had lump on his back! And when
| Niche table appeared attired for the german,
| her lover doubled up over the billiard
table. "lookng for all the world like frog"
| One look sufticed and she fled. David fled
| too. There seems to have been cOntrO-
versy at ALL He simply put on that dress
coat, which was the acme of elegance ard
got out of the house. He knew that cX-
plantations were not in order He knew as
well Mehetable that she had fallen in
love with him because he looked square and
/ broad-shoudered, and that when she saw
him in his shirt sleeves, with his slnp-
! ing shoulders and deformed back, the
play was played out. He managed, how
ever, so the story runs. to lose out of his
pocket, the tailors bill for all the clothes
/ he had been wearing for the six months
| This bill the wicked brother carried to his
sister.
Il worshiped and idealized his clothes"
She said in fearful dreariness Now I'm
going to atone for my idiocy by paying for
| them"
The tailor who was a handsome young
! fellow. would not let her settle the bill,
and during the days of controversy over il
they fell in love with each other All of
/ which goes to show that if a man wishes
to make himself irresistible to women he
must put himself in the hands of his tailor.
L asked Dick If the appareling thus de-
scribed was the proper caper and he said
1t was ''out of sight" Dick sometimes
gets SO epigrammatic as to be unintelligi-
| hle.
| 1t seems to me- though that quite as
| essential as perfectly fitting clothes is a
| knowledge of how to wear them. The
manner in which some men sit down in an
| evening coat is real object lesson. quite
| as difficult of requirement the treat
| ment of a trained dress. 1t is said that
| comparatively few men know how to sit
| down gracefully in frock evening
| coat, and creases in the tails of either are
| an abomination Another thing that so
| few men can do gracefully is to adjust
| a flower in the button hole. Now, there is
| Mr. Springer of Illinois and his red carna-
| ton. Mr.. Springer is not much of
| dresser he might be; there are
| hundred more Congressman who could
! give him points, but he does know how to
wear that red carnation. For a score of
years he has never been without one in
| in the left-hand lapel of his coat, sum-
mer winter. 1t is put in carefully: the
short stem pinned the under side with
a black pin. There is no straegly stem
sticking awkwardly out on the side. or
tickling him under the ear. He is always
by male reporters as the man who wears
/ the red rose" which goes to prove that the
! very pink of dressers. the newspaper men,
| don't know much about flowers for Mr.
| Springer never wore a rose in his life
| Men should wear only a single flower. 1t
| should not be conspicuously large, and par
| ticular pains should be taken to fasten it
| firmly, so that If it is lilly of the valley
| fer instance, the poor thing will not pre-
| sent the appearance of tipsily standing on
| it's head. A leaf of it's own foliage may be
| worn, but is not necessary. A woman al
| ways likes to man wearing flowers
| because she knows then that her pretty
| clothes are not wasted when worn for him.
L