The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-28
DRESS AMONG sOLONS.
Neckties as Telling the Character
Of the Wearer.
SOME OF THE NOTABLE EXAMPLES.
j. ". Beekman Appears to be the
Berry Wall Of the LegisIature.


unimportant details of legislators life.
The great questions of vacating certain
alleys in Podunk or changing the boun-
daries of the town of Wildcat or disor-
ganizing certain school districts in Coy
ote county, take too much thought and
weighty consideration for them to give
much attention to the trifing details OF
personal adornment or habiIiments. But
since man is a clothes wearing animal
and since Legislators are men, garments
must be worn and in them are SHOWN
certain peculiarities and eccentricities OF
the individual Now one of the smallest
articles of mans attire and one which
at the same time gives the widest scope
for the expression of singular or char
acteristic bents of mind, is the necktle.
No one has ever pretended to say that
1t is a necessity. No one has ever dis
covered that it kept Il man any warmer
or that il had any raison detre except as
an adornment 1t is because of this
perhaps that it expresses better than
anything else the taste of a man and re-
spends more accurately and quickly TO
his varying moods. 1t is impossible to
lay down any absolute rules in regard to
it, and it would be unfair to draw from
general laws specific conclusions, SO
wherever in this article general laws are
stated it would be injustice to make par
ticular deductions
The senate and the house represent
different political ma oritles and 1t would
seem upon an examination of them that
among the Populists the line of evolu-
ton of the Tie and the line of political
advancement ran in the opposite direc-
tions while among Republicans they
pointed the same way. So that while
the PopuIist members of the lower house
have not been able yet to throw of the
habit of concerning themselves with
such petty things as neckties the SEN
ators are enslaved by no such vain Gus
tom.
For picturesque and varying neck
wear, J. '. Beekman is the most con-
splcuous man in the house. 1t is dull
monotonous day indeed when the men,
Der from Cowley doesn't have on tie
different from the one he wore the day
before and the variation may be of the
most pronounced kind, either of color or
shape. One day it will be a white lawn
bow with blue stitching and the next a
Bedford cord four hand.
For dark days when the gloom needs
chasing away by some bright cheerful
object Mr.. Beekman culls his large
store of ties and puts on a bright cow
maddening four-in-hand and wears it
with blue shirt.
The only other members of the house
who seem to have any marked views on
the tie question ara those who wear none
at all a few members of the house
cling to the old theory that the exposed
and naked shank of bone or washed
gold collar button is the chief and most
appropriate ornament for the masculine
neck, but most member are willing to
leave that peculiar tenet to their Popu-
h. y,
triue doesn't belong to all Populists, how
ever, for those in the house are up to the
average, but even a cursory glance
at the senate shows that should
Mr.. Beekman, or any other man
who has an almost limitless store OF
ties, be seized with disposition to give
them away, he would not have to seek
far to find suitable objects for his gener-
osity among the majority party in that
body
There are curious things about ties
and tie wearers, and in the general shut
fling around of phenomena in the mate
rial world, it always seems to happen
that the man with the soiled shirt front
comes into conjunction with the narrow
est tie. Hunt out the little black bows.
the old fashioned lawn string ties, and
you will fnd man usually belongs to
them who dotes on low cut vests and
hates laundries.
On the other hand the man who but
tons his coat closest or whose taste runs
more after the four in hand or ascot will
be found to have the closest acquaint-
ance with his washerwoman.
Character and history and geography.
who would suppose they were to be
found In simple bit of cloth encircIinp
a collar? And yet who would think the
man with the flowing windsor was from
anywhere but the coyote counties
Hasn't he right to; is he any worse
for itf" do you ask. Certainly not. but
does that alter the fact?
To turn to history, there is Mr.. Grimes
of Wichita county, who wears a medal
as big as dollar in his tie. 1t calls to
the imagination the weekly literary"
the budding orator, obstacles of speech
and manner perhaps, which were finally
overcome, then the contest, the victory.
and last of all its glorious emblem.
And as for geography again. There is
Mr.. CubbisOn, who wears the cIeanest
kind of clothes, but who wears a four-in-
hand tucked either in his shirt front or to
one side under his vest What discern
ing person would have to be told that he
came from Kansas City? To be sure Mr..
CuOblson has diamond stud and must
necessarily wear his tie that way if he
Will have four-in- hand, but WHY not
forget Kansas City, with its oleo and its
lotteries long enough to put on a string
tie?
To prove where character ia shown
there is Campbell, of Stafford, who not
infrequently takes his tie and collar of
and places them on his desk. There il
independence, true freedom of spirit
The man who was a slave to social usagei
wouldn't dare to do such a thing.
One OF the strange things is that &C
neat dresser as Mr.. Eckstein, and one
who is so up to snuff on everything
should have developed no distinenishin3
trait on this subject, and why Harry
Bone. OF Clark, who draws all the young
ladies' lrresistibly to him is content will
clergyman's black crayat passes all nm
Outstanding.
Then there is the member who WAR,
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