The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-09
THE DRESS sun
A., Soelsty-Why CoaErsSspAp Ball'y
1900 10 Rejecting tie AdVSntaEeS.


s,Ui continues tho one topic OF distress
II .spl.al confsh. II has stirred things
~, From the bottom. And because /
S Az high of Bailey and hold his sud-
Jcn explosion OF this mine in dress
snIts lll.advlsed would a sad yet pa
tlen,. word with him,
As one whose past Is oputnnt OF dire
.ynerIencc, who has chased for years
~ fretf,il COW and spread his blanket
M ',ar !. III the region from the CHA to the
TnYas P,tn.handle; who has fed upon
,rnIs becf and picked his teeth with the
,horn 81 {he sombcr mesquite; who has
SSSp veSt and broken even: ana who
No. returned to the Cffetc east to find
,sc dress suit even as green tree ana
So,intain by comparison with these
srib odiuncts TO Occidental existence,
sneak TO him. Therefore let Bailey lis
ten, ,,......-,.,,,
~ costumes. II protects US OF the tribe
ot poverty from being cvernowered by
,br vulgar rich. II IS the upiform of
sclf.rcspecl. of independence, and bull
,yark AGAINST all social invnsi0ns OF the
CSths and Vantlals OF money The dress
Snit & within the reach Of an; hangs, as
4, ,yere. ON the lowest llrbs III the pos
sIble In garmcnturc, and tie puniesl
and lowllest can hurl the club that VIII
bring II down.
And In the hands OF the humble a
dress suit becomes a sword and shield.
PanoplIcd and armed Herewith they
can meet the pursG-swollcn aud the
mighty and cope with them. All hau TO
nv dress suit,
II Is the wedding garment, the sing
a, David. the rams horn before whose
SRsts fell the walls Of Jericho IL
lazarus had been the proprietor OF
dress suit YOU couldn't have told him
rom Dives: and that celebrated mem
dlcant might have met the flon man
and held him level, Prithee. Bailey'
ponder these things.
As nearly as 1 can guaSe motive
ana have gone calmly through this
business with a lantern-Balley Is
wrong. He declines dress suit ana
stIcks TO the soft hat and long surtOut
M a dead and bygone day, THIS Is an
Srhronistic and frRuaht with j vile log
A. These times be I'm de steele. Cotton
q no longer king. American geHtlIity no
IonCerdrlnks peach and honey, misses lts
man ut ten pHces,and diverts Itself WIN
poker 1.-TWO call five In niGgahs why.
then, should Bailey Gins to the sarO OF
II IL q solemn certainty that We must
do somewhat 10 weIn and win Bailey
Sy,m these moody theories AS Dick
WeIcbtman well remarked In an editor
iaI in the Post, OF this city. society de-
Cilnps to lose Bailey on uuibbIe.
shall assurejly DO all may 10 the re-
covery OF Bailey: by the same token l
would rapaste fallen star In the hrm-
amens II could.
BAILEY does not refuse and put aside
a loo hing ~
me same: but rather for that he ad-
heres 0ffectlonately to what one might
caIl the uniform OF his region. This -
no good reason Suppose Bailey were
born a steeple-chaser; would he con-
tlnue 10 iahaSl, the top boots and cor
dnroVs OF ample base that are the
badge OF this daring tribe? Would Bal
lev decline a dinner because he could
NOT wear spurs? Would he dhrken the
banquet with his absence because he
might not find place on the table LOT
his whip and gloves?
or. take the cowboy. Let Bailey look
uunn the cowpuncher when he IL red
and moveth himself Alright; when ne
,naksth OF his pistol a pinwheel and eN-
nlbEeth the same as cXtenpoTe hrc-
works. when he dnnneth mighty hat.
itnrIeth his spurs aud rOpcth afoot his
nony, Let Bailey consider this person
n cows when without burklng straps.
and not even the soft buner OF roll
OF Blankets across the saddle horn, ne
plapteth his reckless saddle horn, he
plantsth his reckless frame In the sad
de and complleth a cigarette while the
bronco beneath him ricochetcth from
tho summing earth and searcheth the
yc-v heavens In the vanity OF It's buck
inEs Let Bailey. say, consider these
matters aud then tell me whether, had
he been born cowboy, he would Tetuse
10 cat at the white house unless he
could stake out his pony In the cast
room and use hnlt-lnch manila 70 rope
up to his use the terraph anu sus"
other yianis as his fancy might crave
Nav, nay. ] ween not.
Rambling through the realm OF dress
would Bailey had he come from Inc
dllJcs and dunes and windmills 81 Ho!,
land. drink naught hut gin and wear all
Ms useful life the ancestral wooden
shoes Think OF a statesman gaIump-
ina about the house az representatives
In wooden shoes. making more noise
than a horse. Think you he could eaten
thr. speakers eye or get nearing
Never In a thousand yedrs. as ram
many Tim would say. Not on your
llfc'" -
No. TO: man must dress ior MS
game II he would win 4 wreath N
the Roman arena he must take sword
and huckler or a net and trldent' VI ne
Would triumph as boxer he must strip
On the belt; II he would iouSt IN the
steel clad lists OF Ashby he must seek
a Milan armorer: II he would be Willy
with Rochester or throw main WIN
Ruckinrhan at the Pigeon House, or
meet Win King Charlie arterward, he
must consent TO peachblow hoseh anu
Akeu truaks and doublet.
Think. II Bailey's theory OF the I'm,
mutabiIIty OF dress obtained unmoiihed
without 3 change. what might have
been his fate had he been born a south
sea Islander, with whom "tull dress
means a necklace OF sharks teeth ana
a club? or suppose Bailey had Hrst
seen light on the Grampian bills or
some other series Of Scotch cmtnenee'
how would he look to-day driving Ding
low INTO a corner on tariff and taking
his bread away, and him tBaileyl' IN
plaid skirt and tartans. and probably
attended by the tribal bagpiper WIN hl1
ekreeIng strains as II a hundred muir.
derel cats told all Mt once nf the top:
methods Of their takings OF? Couid
Bailey talk tariff with Dingley while
clad in the dress OF a Highland chiet!
Thus upholstered. Dincley wouldn let
Bailey come near enough TO lin 70
hand him ripe peacn, let alone pepats
with him.
But why prolong nm argument over
what seemed plain to all save Bailey
and nov must be clear to him. Ihere
are dresses and dresses. They arr for
OCCASIONS. and they shift and change,
and take renewed anG sometimes
strange shapes as the object OF the
meeting varies One would not seek
the north pole in paJamas, nor wear
scalskln IN Timhuctoo. Ry the same
argument We yield at eVengOnE TO the
soft Keeping NJ the dress suit, and with
our work aside become ChlIdrOn 0t the