Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-24

MAKE liieHl grow just DIS ne NAH tlS'i'
to. He started in on pair of steers
| u few years ago and grew two hand
some horn friend cakes on them in a
few months. He always paints his wa
termelons in the moon. When the moon
is so the ''old Indian can hang his pow
der horn on It," that is the time to
plant. The melons always have lots
of water in them then. Once he plant
ed when the powder horn would slip
off, and grew nothing but vines that
had the dry murrain. No, this hasn'.
been our corn year, but frogs an /
muskrats have done we'll. and pond ILL
les and cattail flags and he'll divers are
an enormous crop.
NO BIRD CENTER
washington, Ia, Press.]
Washington has graduated, and is
no longer such center. AT least Il
score of our young men have evening
dress suits, aid now that the Com
mercial Club gymnasium hall is "a
superb floor for hops therell be a
rush to leap out of sack and "Princ,-
pal'' Albert and Tuxedo coats, wamuses.
blouses and things. and jump into the
elegant costume known as swallow
tails or box coats. No reader is so be-
nighted as not to know what We mean.
+, -cut-away coat with a prehensile tail,
decollete Cor low-neck) vest, skating
rink shirt front, Spanish garrote col
lar. white tie. white gloves, capsule
| pants" slender legged, and very
black shoes.
This costume gives the wearer a dis
I a ~ T.. ~.
superb, the standard, like the goi 1
standard. One thus arrayed has no
anxiety, in any company, as to his
looks. He knows he is the proper
thing. orthodox, up to standard, regu-
lar. the elect, 1t. A bright Boston
lady said the sense of being we'll dress :
ed gives a peace of mind that neither
religion nor the world can give or
take away.
| Since seeing a lot of these suits at
the club banquet. we wish to recant
any heresies we may have uttered on
the subject of clothes.
Hitherto, this city has not had
enough social functions to justify one
| In having a dress suit A gentleman
told us he had had suit three years
and had Worn it four times. The rest
of the time 1t was sequestered in the
society of moth balls, or valet was
sitting up with it nights. A man own
| ing such n suit needs a chamberlain 20
look after it, as much as a rich man
needs gardener, hostler and Il
lawn-keeper.
Everybody looks nice in this costume.
but We fancy it is a little more becom-
ing to q man of embonpoint than to a
shad. A slight fullness or plumpness,
not so decided as corpulency, but
just that lovely family luminous line
of suggested rotundity in front, that
the new moon forecasts.-such a figure
fills out the dress suit admirably. And
the skirts set better on such a figure.
The tail does not hang, straight dowa
and lanky, like a lambs tail 1t has a
delicate curve. and if the man dances,
it does not flop and jiggle around as l.,
its habit on a lean kline. We have
seen men in swallow tails, hopping
round on ball room floors. when w.
ached to cure the nervousness anl
hysteria of his coat tails by hangngsa
weight on them, say, a flat-iron on
each tail.
But, with any deductions that may
be made by aesthetic critics, we main
tain that the dress suit is beautiful
We mean to get one. plus a silk plug
hat, when We come back from the
Orient And then we shall feel per-
fectly at home and on an equality Of
elegant attire with the score or more
of beautifully apparelled men. who
now wear evening dress and decorate
parlors and halls with their pres
ence.