The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1901-09-06
HIS ELBOW SLEEVES.

1901 ummer fashion for men in the
borough Of Brooklyn. The style,
which in some ways will appeal TO
many. has been set by a sedate New
York business man, whoresides in the
borough Of churches, and who is the
last man who would have been expect
cd to NEEDLE with the fashions. 1t
would never have happened II Mr..
Brooklyn. of the Heights, had not
fallen a victim to the summer shirt
bargain habit.
The summer shirt bargain habit is
epidemic at this time Of the year.
1t attacks a man something after the
manner Of hay fever. and for couple
Of weeks or a month is rampant. 1t
could be escaped If the victims would
keep away from the vicinity Of the
large shops and give up the newspa-
pers. The first is possible, but the
latter is not. A mar who knows his
susceptibility will try to skip the
''ads." but it can't be done. The big
type jumps at him as he skirmishes
around the advertising pages. and
when the words, Big Reduction in
Mems Shirts meet his eye there are
ninety-niue chances out Of a hundred
that that man is lost. lie stops hest
tatingly and lets his eye gently run
through the lines that follow:
Great bargains In nne madras shirts. ;
shirt. were fso and s., now only 20 cents.
collars TO this shirt never known to wilt:
:. In the hottest weather. :
;A'ways S xiss and sSmr95,'o, noe tss, col;
most improved style gussets. ;
white or smoked pearl
buttons, :
selling a. low prizes only as : eSmpli':
cakes. Now II the time f;
to buy. ;
BY the time the average man has
read that seductive description he is
on his way to add one more to the
crowd Of men who make the mems
shirt departments OF the big shops
look like winter Monday bargain
counters.
Mr.. Brooklyn wa not so weakly led.
Mrs. Brooklyn buys all his shirts, and
he would never have fallen and been
the cause of the introduction of the
elbow sleeve shirt il he had not
CHANGED one evil day last week to pass
along Fulton street in the shopping
district. Mr.. Brooklyn knew nothing
Of the evils Of the summer shirt bar.
gain habit, and in his innocence he
fell at once when the rainbow-likC
vision Of a window full Of shirts fell
upon his eye with the sign in big let.
ttrs:
$3.50 shirts for 81 cents"
"liaria always pays two dollars foi
my shirts, L believe" soliloquized Mr.
Brooklyn, ''and / think / heard hel
say the other day that l needed &
couple more. l had better drop in
and save her the trouble OF coming
down. These are certainly very rea.
sonable in price"
Mr.. Brooklyn dropped in, selected
two comfortable-looking blue ant
white shirts, which were really a cred
it 10 his good taste, and ordered then
sent home. Then he took his first les
son in shopping. He required a /,
shirt, but the only shirts of The kline
he wished were l6t. 1t was in vail
that the clerk held up to view beauti
full pink shirts, and red shirts, greer
shirts, lavender shirts, white shirt
and combinations of all colors. Tn,
masculine mind is not so difreren
from the feminine, and the more tn
clerk dilated upon the pink and Law
ender shirts the more Mr.. Brooklyl
desired his first choice of blue shirt
and nothing else.
you send those home. anyway,
he said, finally. like large shirt il
summer, and | think those will be a
right"
The shirts were really excellent
Mrs. Brooklyn was delighted, and Nj
Brooklyn was pulled up with pride q
this his first shopping venture. Tn
only trouble was the sleeves were to
long.
Il will take them off a little at tn
top" said Mrs. Brooklyn. at will !
no'trouble, and the shirts are too pre-
~ to send back"