The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-09-10
THE MANIA FOR UNIFORMS.
A Plain, 0ldPashioned American
Deplores the Military Ten
cency Of Things.

An aged New Yorker, whose mem
Dry runs back to the first quarter O
the century, spoke of a change whicI
has occurred in his lifetime. "Whel
was a boy in New York." said he
1--WE used to guy man who wore
uniform, excepting when there was
regimental parade, or when it was tn,
Fourth of July, but the boys don't d.
: that now, When left the house to
day an uniformed letter carrier was a
the door with my mail. Half way ur
the square an uniformed messenger
boy was running on the other side OF
the street l took an elevated car
the guard upon which was in uniform
| saw lots Of coach drivers on Madison
avenue in livery, which is a private
uniform. A gang of uniformed street
Isweepers We're plying their brooms.
uniformed member of the National
Guard marched past me. Lots OF
bicyclers, men and women, have
taken to the wearing of kind of uni
form, rather queer looking, too some
times. The Federal Supreme Court
is not the only court in which the
Judges now wear judicial garb,
which is q uniform i went to col
lege commencement and saw all the
students uniformed in mortar-board
hats and togas. You can see clergy
men clad in a part of their clerical
uniform, such as the all-round collar
and buttoned-up vest. The walters
and hall men at heightened hotels are
uniformed, and so are the women be-
hind the counters in some stores.
The fashionable evening dress is a
uniform, and the stiffest of any.
"At first | did not like to see the
adoption of the European custom in
the place of the plain, old-fashioned |
American ways, but there does not
seem to be any use in kicking. There
was kick against the police uniform
now worn when il was introduced,
and there is kick against the uni
forming of the letter carriers, and
there has been kick at every extern
sion of the custom of wearing uni
forms. The street cleaners did not
like Colonel Wearing's idea of putting
them in uniform while ago. But
not kick against uniformity, in any
case, has ever had any effect.
II am getting to wish now that
everybody was uniformed and that
every business had its own particular
Uniform. l would have the Wall
street uniform, the poets uniform and
uniforms for hotel keepers,
ditors, grocers, professional dudes, !
ustom tailors, lawyers, typographers, !
'as company men, club members.
loctors, bricklayers and pullers-ip.
I would be very convenient. We
would know something about a mau
t sight. The Wall street broker |
night wear plug hat with green
DAT; the hotel keeper a suit of sky E
lue; the decor dress of Grape; the Z
ROGER white apron washed every &
ay, and the East Side barber should q
allowed to carry a trumpet. There &
lust be 10000 or 10000 uniformed q
eople in the city, and the rest of us 4
light as well be put in uniform. AS 81
is now, you know a policeman E
hen you see him, and a letter carrier &
nd a street sweeper and train guard =
I'D liveried coachman and a mes =
niger boy, and why should you not y
low politician in white, or re- 9
il druggist in the colors of all the 81
titles in his window ?"--New York q
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