The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-01-13
Society Man Of Ideas
Dresses Well on Little

III by a st. Louis man whose social
III ambitions are many times larger
than his purse.
by profession he is a lawyer. with
n practice yet to come, by inheritance he
Is the possessor of $500 year. out OF
which he pays for lodgings living,
clothes, Office rent desk ROOM. club dues
and plays the merry social game.
II is all matter of economies.
nnsuspected by the members OF the smart
set who nightly invite him to dinner,
thereby saving him dollars per.
He lives in "A lodging house, that for him
lbeing the cheapest arrangement. and
Iwhen II Is necessary to speak of his abode
senns rather G w ai e or oo wf SS
bedroom back" with the use of a bath
two floors below.
Such a room in n cheap neighborhood
could be procured for. 81 week.
This astute man, however. knows the
Importance OF saving time and car fare
and paws $3.50 for the privilege of living
In the West end, where he Is within walk
ing distance of his fashionable friends.
His room is SO small that IL is practi-
Cally all bed, and a cot bed at that.
The rest of the furniture consists of
chinonier. "a washstand and one chair.
The landlady, when he took possession,
generously ofered him table If he could
see any, place where 1t could go in, but
he couldn't.
He makes the chair do table duty in
stead.
The things that go on in this fourth
floor back would astonish those who
know him.
To begin with he gets his own break
fasts. The meal consists Of coffee and an
iegg-he dispenses with roll.
As he really prefers his coffee without
either cream or sugar, it is easily man.
over the gas.
cooking the egg and making the coffee
without loss Of time
His method is to coddle the egg, which
means that 1t is put into the saucepan
while the water is cold and allowed to re-
main there until the water comes to a
s. Then 4 Is taken put done and is more
when put into boiling water.
{. The same water is then poured over the
coffee grounds in his little French drip
strong. clear delicious coffee
Eggs and coffee as he cooks them are
not TO be Found outside of the most ex-
His breakfast costs him 4 cents, the gas
S consume being at the expense of the un-
When he doesn't have eggs. he eats bis
cults. tin of which ne keeps on hand. ,
At FIRST he was In quandary as to how
should not fall under the sharp eye of the
landlady. until he hit upon the idea OF
Going them up In wad of paper, ball
shape. and pitching them out Of his win
dow. not untidily into the yard below, but
on into space somewhere.
He was 2 crack pitcher in his college
room.
He spends the morning putting his
clothes into shape for the week.
Always there are buttons to sew on and
He knows little about doing either and
would scorn the use Of a thimble II II oc-
Cured to him. so he labors under DIM
culties but manages his needle by punch
ing IT through against chair.
pricked his hand Hna Sucks SSt no nc
,darns over golf ball and thinks this q
brilliant idea.
Then-shades of the West end! he
This is the only bit of laundry work he
attempts.
times wash their handkerchiefs and
spread them on the window pane to dry,
but such process does not suit his
In his scheme of things immaculate.
well ironed handkerchief are as impor.
tant as other fresh linen. It's the details
Next on the Sunday program is press
Ing his trousers.
At first he tried the plan Of putting
them under his mattress and sleeping on
them to press them. but he didn't like the
result.
SO he bought little gas iron and, hav-
fng no table, pressed them on chair.
1t wasn't exactly merry jest to sue
oessfully accomplish this feat.
His chair table drives him to an un-
comfortable kneeling posture, and in the
beginning he used one of the landlady s
towels for an iron noider and scorched It
The thing made such a beastly smell
OF burned cloth that an old maid in the
next room insisted his place was on fire
and he had all he could do to pacify her
and prevent her from breaking in.
The episode Disguised him, but the
pressing had to go on, and he was at his
wits end for something to grip the iron
with. when suddenly he espied a librettc
which an opera hostess had given him q
few nights before.
He put 1t to immediate use.
To some this might seem a desecrat Tor
of Tristan and Isolde" but to him ii
solved a problem, and now that he's got
the hang of thing he presses II not in G
professional manner at least with profess
sional results.
His coats and waistcoats as well as hi,
trousers. are carefully inspected in tn,
strong light of his window every Sunday
morning. and any suspicion of dust OF
stain Is removed.
Equal care is given to his ties. Ther
no blacks his boots. The polishing, o
course, occurs every day along with hi
shave and his tub and the other re
ouisites of the well groomed man.
BY the time all these things are dom
Il Is nearly noon. so he arrays hmsel
In apparel suitable for the after churcl
parade and saunters forth to the avenue
up which he strolls until he meets som
woman he knows. whom he joins to es
Cort home.
This Invariably leads to an Invitation
The rest of the day he puts in agreeabl!
making calls. and is rarely without
dinner or supper invitation for the even
4 limited supply of clothing is part o
his economy.
He gets along on one business suit, on
pair OF dress trousers. which he wear
Iwithboth dress coat and dinner coat,
fancy white waistcoat, trousers an
waistcoat to wear with ms rrock Goa
These are in excellent taste, of fines
bn Iitfla no has Ia of the best, for h