The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-02

A SUIT OF
| READY.MADE
g CLOTHING
j J ! j
EvM KNE morning in
ENNeN0vss III June Augustus
ENAE&#~ l/zalf Bunker received a
F1lI#N ##[ letter. It is not
Il M1SEzX such very mus
nm iAA W. nal circums lance,
Hgkz# FMW in these days of
HTU MN cheap postage, for
. an individual to
receive a letter,
that we have seen
fit to chronicle it,
but by that letter
hangs tale. It
came from Mr. Bunker's Aunt Mercy,
who resided in the little suburban
village of fremont. We will look
over our heros shoulder while he
reads it--a very i1npOlite proceeding,
but the only one which will give us a
knowledge of the contents:
DEAR AUGUsrUs-As warm weather is af
hand ara the lily must be very hot and I'M
comfo-tab g. write to you 10 come out and
pass few weeks with US at fremont There
is good nshin IN the vicinity. and finer walks
are not TO be found anywhere than our city
can boast Also there are q host Of pretty
youn ladies here, which is no small recon-
incubation, take 1t My husbands niece
Miss Helen Browne-a charming y Dung Etri Is
spending the summer with US, you will not
be lone y. Please let u you early next
week as possible. Your anectionate aunt.
sMERCY CONVERSE"
Augustus read the letter. and tossed
up his hat The very thingl He had
just been wondering where he should
60 to rusticate.
Would he go? To be sure. Helen
Browne pretty name--the first of
it. and as for the family title it had
been borne, and was still borne, by a
great many respectable people. And
spelled with final it looked very
well written, but wat mattered it,
any way2 it could be safely merged in
the name of Bunker. and who would
be the wiser?
fremont must be a paradise. And
he had heard his mother say that
Aunt Mercy was the very princess of
good cooks. And good cooking was
not to be despised by a fellow who
passed his life in a third-rate board
ing house, where fried mackere1 was
y lEGdLs anu DO4lG0 OHlOAS q lux uEY.
Those fine valxs7 He could explore
them with Helen That capital fish
ing? He wondered if Helen could put
a worm on a hook without squirming.
Wouldn't it all be glorious? gIori-
o-u-s!
Suddenly his castles fell.
Jones and Smith were making him
suit of clothes. and it was three weeks
yet to the time they had promised
they should be finished; and Jones
and Smith, though excellent work
men, could not always keep their en-
gagements. Augustus remember
with shudder that it had been just
nine months and three days after they
had promised to finish the last suit
they had got up for him, that they
were finished.
well, we'll" remarked Augustus, -
''deuce take the tailors, and deuce
take the clothes! And I've not
a thing to wear this melt
ing weather can sympa-
thize with Miss Flora McF1imsey.
But there are ready made clothing
establishments. Jenkins patronizes
them. and it's a pity if they can TT
Jenkins, they can't fit mer'
SO that very afternoon Augustus
called upon Messrs. Pinch and Pullem
and looked at their wares Their
stock looked well there was no gain
saying that, and Mr.. Pinch warranted
the sewing to outlast the cloth.
Augustus tried on a pair of lilac-col-
ored pantaloons.
Seems to me they are a little
tight he remarked to Mr.. Pinch.
s'Splendid fit, sir, splendid" return
ed that enthusiastic gentleman.
Look as if they growed on you'll Not
a wrinkle, sirl and, by Jovel not a
single baggy look about them any
whereI And they'll stretch. sir,
stretch to your form-those Scotch
cloths always dol Only piece of the
kind in Americal Imported it myself,
sir Splendid fiji I declare, sir, 1
couldn't have done better if 1 had ta-
ken your measure"