Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-16
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
DOG CAME BACK

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A Waterloo man was commissioned
by friend in Davenport to buy him
good hunting dog and was authorized
to pay $40 If he found one that suited.
The Waterlooan soon found dog that
he thought met the conditions which he
secured for 81 and he thought his friend
would be well pleased at having dol
lar or two to burn out of the ten he ex-
pected to pay. even after the express
charges were met. With light heart
the dog buyer boxed up his canine
friend and shipped it to the city hy the
big river and then complacently waited
to receive q letter of thanks from the
party to whom 1t was consigned.
The letter that he longed for never
came, but the dog came back. The
consignee at the Davenport end had re-
fused to accept the animal from the ex-
press company, and 1t was returned to
the Waterloo consignor. He now has a
dog he has no use for, is out the 81
he paid for it and express charges to
and from Davenport. He says that the
dog looked bigger than an elephant
when ne saw him back in Waterloo,
and he announces with emphasis that
1 he has retired from the dog brokerage
/ business.
PLEA FOR OLD STYLES OF MEMS
APPAREL.
washington Press.l
We mean something like the conti-
mental costumes for men. Didn't the
Friday night minstrels, thus dressed
Hook gay? In silk or satin small
clothes, with silk hose and buckled
lshoes, long rich silver-laced waist coats
4 (vests) and lace-sleeyed coats, and hail
powdered. The comely calf In silE
i stocking. The Nenetians in the colder
age of the doges Wore embroidered
suits, Powered waist coats. costly
robes and even the colder English,
century or two ago. went in brave flow
cred livery, delightful vision.
/ 1t is fiat heresy, we know, to say SO
4 but men can so dress that they are fal
II and away handsomer than women, ant
4 is that the secret reason why the oil
vine sex Ia so eager to keep them II
modern sober colors? They can't stant
the competition and have made trus
lof beautiful dressing. Men used to wea
blue, or red, or yellow velvet coats, ant
we're just too killing. and the womel
.'paled their sneffectua fires" Their
was never a finer costume for men thai
the continental. George Washington
John Adams, Ben Franklin ct al. locke
!: like gods in those suits. Every man
taste, if not knock-kneeded or handy
legged, must secretly wish the retur
of that splendid costume, If only I
take the conceit and vanity out of tn
bellies who fancy, each one of EN-. tina
she is 1t and the whole cream cheese
Powdered male heads have glory eS
E |ceeding st. PauIs glory of women.
Why the modern dandies and dude
do not agitate for the renaissance
the continental costume is what we ca
not understand.
The man of the nineteenth cenutr
does not make himself near as pretty
as he might be. 1t shows ne Is NJ
selfish. He effaces himself, and CIV
women monopoly of beauty.
But men can never hope for pr
eminence in beauty as long as tbs
stick to the present dress suit,-ga
rote collar, decollete vest, skating rii
shirt bosom, white tie, stove pipe al
that horrid claw-haInmer. That co
I tune makes a man look like tallow r,
hol in molds and left out to cool. h
:, such a suit is a good foil to woman
= picturesque costume, and sets her {
Ie at mans expense.