The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-02

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can post yourself on the baseball scores.
That boys going to come to me with
tears of gratitude in his eyes a year
from now TO thank me for putting him
on the highway to fortune. WHAT do
you think he'd ever amount to with the
kind of clothes he's wearing now?"
There's something in that" admit
ted the stationery man. "He looked
considerable of a slob, for a fact"
That's the point exactly. If you'd
patronize a good tailor once and give
yourself u show you might amount to
something yourself"
You'd feel sore if did, retorted the.
stationer. II wouldn't want to seem to
slight you"
Native nobility is ali right as far as
it goes" said the tailor, oracularly,
but it wants to be dressed for the
part. l don't mean to say that clothes.
are every thing. There's some men 1
couldn't make clothes to fit and good
| goods would be wasted on 'em, simply
because providence never intended they
should wear good clothes; but you take.
| 10 dubs out of 20 and turn 'em over to.
me and I'll fix 'em up so you'll feel like
taking off your hat to them when you
meet 'em on the street You can't help
| yourself"
you can't judge man by the coat
! he wears observed the stationer,
sententiously.
Maybe you can't" said the tailor
'All the same that's the way most peo-
pie will size you up, and it's pretty
good play to keep that in mind. You
may not have anything more than a
pair Of deuces in your hand. but four
ace front amt going to hurt your
bluff. There's whole lot of bluff in
this wicked world, Billy"
you don't need to tell me that after
seem you sell that suit"
The tailor breathed hard for mo-
nent and brushed chalk mark from
the edge of a seam. 81 suppose you
wouldn't believe me il tod you that
I'd have made more on the SIS cloth
than l will out of the $22," he said at
last,
mo, l wouldn't" said the stationer,
with great deal of decision.
That's right" observed the tailor
"You don't want to believe everything
you're told. You'll get imposed on
sooner or later If you do. No, sir; you
guessed it all right. | don't see how
you managed TO DO it, but you did it.
guess / might just as well own up;
it's no use trying to hide anything from
you, you're too foxy. Yes, | sold that
boy the S22 becarse | make So moro
profit on it. You don't think he sus-
pected that, do your"
"You can't fool me-" said the sta
toner.
genially, looking at his neighbor with
an expression of intense admiration.
When they try to pull the wool over
your eyes they get left, don't they?"
"As a general thing they do" said the
stationer.
you wasn't bbrn yesterday, was
your" pursued the tailor.
| mo, l guess I'm over seven" admit
ted the stationer, complacently.
That's what tell them when hear
them saying what a fat-headed lunatio
you are. OF course | know you cant
help the way you look, and that the
dr,vel you talk once in awhile is apt 20
give people a wrong impression of you.
If you would keep your mouth shut
when there's strangers around you
would pass for a man of average intel
ligence, anyway"
80 you think that boy is going to
weep on youf shoes and call you his
beuefactor?" asked the stalioner.
oIf 90 rnt o,,, ,r,,a tit,,Ja In he
makeup he will be apt To think OF me in
after years as the man who gave him
his start In life Hes out 81 over and
above his calculations, Wen say He'll
| have to economic a little to make up
| that amount. There's an advantage
right there. Habits of self-denial are
what every young man wants to cul-
tivate If he expects to succeed in Efe.
Then he's got the advantage of looking
like somebody just as long as the
clothes hang together. It's an even bet
that the boss will give him raise In
his wages on the strength of those
clothes, or some other man, seeing how
nice he looks, will covet him aud make
| princely overtures to get him to accept
a new position. Then he will naturally
feel as il he has got to live up 10 the
worlds good opinion of him. He will
get the hump out of his shoulders and
into his actions, and the result will be
that in Is years from now that boy will
be at the head of some trust and will be
universally loathed and respected"
That's all right" said the stationer,
"but what's the matter with your"
"Tm all right. Who's all right2
Why, ] am" returned the tailor. I've
got to get those blamed shears sharp
ened."
"You may think you are" said the
stationery man, nursing his knee with
his clasped hands. at don't strike me
Lhat MaY. 1hongh Let me tell Won