The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-04-25

friends, and he had to earn living in
some manner. Now Mr. Lewis has
friends and large legal practice.
Of course Mr.. Lewis is the subject
of some pleasant banter from his col
leagues because Of his dress. But am
quite sure none of them thinks any the
less of him because he is fashionably
attired.
Since his return, after two years of
retirement from public life, Jerry Simp-
son has been seen wearing knee breech-
es and golf stockings, for he enjoys cy-
cling.
Daniel Webster used to wear shad
belly coat with brass buttons In recent
years Senator Conger of Michigan wore
coat like this, and Senator Chace of
Rhode Island, who was Quaker, wore
shad belly coat with sober buttons of
black. There is no eccentric dress to be
seen i'll the senate today. Some senators
wear frock coats; some wear cutaway
coats, and some dress in the sack coat
which is supposed to be sacred to bust
ness use. Few of them cultivate vari-
ETY.. They wear coats of the same style
all through the winter and spring, ex-
changing them for silk or alpaca coats
i'll the summer. No senator is seen with
out his coat even on the hottest summer
day. The proprieties of the senate cham
Der will not permit any such laxity
The clerks are held to the same rigid
rule, and some years ago when one of
the clerks appeared at his desk in a lin
en- buster he was notified that his serv-
ices would not be needed any longer.
Dress In the Senate.
The frock coat is the most common
style of dress in the senate. Almost all
the older members wear it. Some Of
them have pudgy figures which would
be lost in the long tailed garment. Vest
is one of these. He wears a very much
wrinkled cutaway coat. German wears
a cutaway, fitting his figure trinity.
For an transformations man German is
remarkably well dressed His dress is as
clean cut and characteristic as his pro-
file, and he almost always wears we'll
brushed silk hat
The last time saw John Sherman at
the capitol was on Inauguration day,
and he had around his neck "a coach
mans collar of fur which stood out like
a ruff from his thin figure. Mr.. Sher-
man is one of the frock coated states
men whose clothing is always wrinkled
and loose fitting. Senator Allison, on
the other hand, is always attired in a
black broadcloth coat which looks as
though it had just come from the hands
of his tailor. l suspect Mr.. Allison of
having valet concealed about his bach
elor home on Vermont avenue. Mr.. AL
drich is i'll marked contrast with Mr. AL
lison. He wears close fitting cutaway
suit and looks like what he is-a bust
ness man. Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont wears
the customary suit of solemn black"
His clothing is always we'll fitting and
neatly kept. He wears his long frock
coat hanging open. That is a point of
difference between the senators and the
justices of the supreme court. The SEN
ators wear their frock coats unbuttoned;
the justices, when they are not in their
robes, wear their frock coats tightly
buttoned about them. The frock coat is
almost as much uniform as the black
silk robe with the supreme court JUS
tice.
Most of the presidents, since long
trousers came into vogue. have worn
long frock coats buttoned closely about
them. Mr.. Cleveland always did, and
his portly figure swelled his coat out of
all graceful proportion. Mr. Harrison
did, and the. length of the skirts en-
phasized the squatness of his figure.
Arthur was very particular about the
set OF his coat. He had his clothing
made by New York tailor and he
tried to live up to his reputation as
1.-THE only gentleman who ever sat i'll
the White House"
Garfield and Hayes wore close fitting
frock coats which were always tightly
buttoned. Lincoln, on the contrary,
wore loose skirted frock coat which
usually hung open. It's looseness dis
gulsed IN some measure the scantiness of
the presidents figure. President Nc
hlnIey wears tight fitting frock coat.
Mr.. Bailey will find great many
men IN both branches of congress who
will sympathize with his objections to
the designations of society-men who
believe that the duty of public man is
to his constituents and his country,
not to the women who give afternoon
teas and the men who give poker par
ties. One of these is Senator Frye, who
says he despises functions, and is
never so happy as at his summer home
ON Squirrel island, where he can wear a
flannel shirt and loaf and invite his
soul" But Mr.. Frye has dress suit
for use when occasion demands it.
But the Wedding Went On.
My memory goes back again II years
to White House incident The pres
ident of the United States was to be
married. He had hidden only the mem
bers OF his cabinet to the ceremony.
One OF them-Mr. Garland-beeged the
president to excuse him on the plea that
he never wore a dress suit-the plea
that young Bailey made when he called
on President Mckinley the other day.
President Cleveland urged Mr.. Garland
to reconsider. He wanted particularly
to have all the members of the cabinet
at his wedding. Mr.. Garland xpas firm,