The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-19
FINE WHITE SHIRTS.
High Prices Paid by Some Men for
This item of Their Apparel.

A man can buy a good well-made,
well-ftting white shirt for a dollar;
he can buy other white shirts for less
than that; and then he can get shirts
made to order at any price he wishes
to pay up to $40 each. He can find
establishments were the lowest-priced
white shirts kept in stock sells at
$3.50, and where the lowest-priced
shirt made to order is sold at 81, or
SIS a dozen. A shirt of this sort will
have a body of the best domestic cot
ton, and plain linen bosom; it would
be simply fine, handsome well-made
shirt; and probably more than 80 per
cent. Of the shirts sold here would be
of that price and description; the 9th
er so per cent or so being shirts finer
still. AT $3.50, for example,, or at Sc
with the collar attached could be had
a shirt with a body of French muslin,
and a bosom of pique of very fine
quality. The patterns of the pique are
likely to be rather simple than other
wise in design, and the shirts are
made sometimes with the lines of
pique running vertically in the bosom,
and sometimes with the line horizon.
tai Subdued in effect as the pattern
is the pique-bosomed shirt might
nevertheless seem to some men rath.
er fanciful; but there can be no doubt
that many of the fine shirts of this
character are thoroughly artistic pro-
auctions. A shirt of this kind, as it
comes from the hands of the expert
ironer with the delicate pique pattern
showing family in absolutely faultless
lines upon bosom SO ironed that it
has a slight convexity of outline and
the perfect uniformity of a shield, is
certainly an object that is agreeable |
to the eye.
Pique.bosomed shirts are worn
chiefly by young men. OF all the high
er-priced dress shirts, such as are here
referred to, taken together, perhaps
25 per cent would be made with pique
bosoms; IS per cent. being made with
plain linen bosoms,
A shirt that sells at 49, or sos a
dozen, is made with body of figured
linen batiste, with an extra fine linen
bosom; the collar and cuffs are at
tached. All the materials of which
this shirt is made are fine and sheer
and beautiful and very light; a COM
plete shirt of this sort.
All fine dress shirts, such as are
here mentioned, are invariably made
with cuffs attached, and it was not
necessary that they should be; and
vet it was said that if the wearer de-
sired to attain the acme of perfection
in his apparel, and to be able to with
stand any scrutiny, he had his shirts
made with collars as well as cuffs at |
tached.
Men that wear shirts of these sorts /
buy four or five dozen of them year, /
or perhaps more; they don't wear |
them after signs Of wear appear and |
The shirts so often to the laundry,
hich helps to wear them out. 1t is
common thing for men ordering
ach shirts to order say, two dozen at
time, having ole dozen perhaps
sent to their country house and one
dozen sent to their city house; and
the purchasers of goods of this kind
are not confined to customers from
this city and naigbhorhood.-N Y.
Sun.
Mceovern Defeats Dixon.
Terrence McGovern, of Brooklyn,
whipped George Dixon, of New York,
Tuesday night in eight rounds of the
fastest, toughest fighting ever seen
in that city. Dixon was knocked down
eight times in the final round. 1t was
the Dixon of old, fast honest, true and
game as pebble, but youth, not to be
denied, added another of its long lists
of victories over age, mature judg
ment and ring experience. At the
conclusion of the battle McGovern
was comparatively fresh. though he
had gone through the hardest battle
of his life He is a fighting wonder,
and Dixon, though defeated, can look
back upon his long list of victories
and feel no disgrace. 1t was a battle
royal, in which strength, stamina, en-
durance, intelligence and courage
combined to achieve success. Defeat
for Dixon was not written until the
dusky veteran had exhausted all his
marvellous resources of generalship
which have puzzled his antagonists
not until his ring tactics had been
tested to the utterlnost, his strategy
exhausted and his staying powers
wasted. At the end he was still full
of willingness and eourage, and would
have gone on until nature would have
stood no more and he had fallen into
merciful insensili, Y