The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06
cAsrorr CLOTHING.

of suit which he had just pur-
chased for so cents. "Of course
don't expect to find anything moth
ing except maybe some old letters
But it pays to run through the pock-
cts and feel the lining. If a mar
who lets his wife sell his castof1
clothes only knew what got lost in
the lining of his coat sometimes he
wouldn't feel SO easy about parting
with them. A man sticks important
letters in his inside coat pocket, and
some day when he wants them they
are not there. He hunts and fumes
around, but the letters don't turn up
Then he thinks they must have been
torn up or burned, and he forgets
dDOur the 1idttcf.
"But important letters don't go
that way generally. They turn up
sometimes to accuse a man. They
find their way between the lining OF
the coat or vest, and we fellows get
hold of them. If I wanted to go
into the blaclInailing business
could make plenty of money. I've
found letters and papers in castoft
clothing that would make pretty
startling reading for some people.
Of course when we get the clothes
by hunting up the address in the di-
rectory we can locate either the
writer or the one receiving it.
II don't think that as rule, wo-
men sell their husbands castoff
clothing any more without going
through all their pockets. Maybe
they've got into the habit of search
ing them so that it becomes second
nature to them. SO it is not in the
pockets we find things. It's in the
lining, where they have found their
way gradually.
"You know how easy it is for
small coins to work their way
through a hole in the lining of vest
and snuggle down in the corner of
the cloth. Well, we pick up quite
a number of dimes and nickels in
this way. Usually a vest is small
silver mine. Probably the wife of a
man feels something there and
thinks it is only a button or some
such thing, or maybe penny, and
she won't bother in trying to fish it
out. But pennies don't work down
there nearly as readily as the dimes
do.
'In the same way a bill will get
mixed up in the lining of the inside
pocket and finally disappear. The
man probably misses a five or ten
dollar bill and thinks he must have
lost it or spent it foolishly. The mat
ter escapes his mind, the suit is
thrown to one side and some day it
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doesn't escape us. We go through
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the corners and inside carefully. The
bills we find in the course of day
will often more than pay us for what
we have given for all the old clothes.
'fMany men are extravagant IN
getting rid of their castoff clothing.
They have so many that they become
a nuisance to them. Sell them to the
first man who comes along is the
easiest way for them to dispose OF
their useless belongings. If the ser
wants don't take them, we get fine
pick at them. For from so cents to
a dollar you get a suit that will when
brushed, steamed, cleaned and press
ed easily bring So to S.. The clothes
are not worn much, but just soiled
and mussed little. The trousers
are stretched little so they will bag
at the knees when used a few days
at a time. A man with plenty OF
money won't stand that. He will or
der his wife or valet to sell them.
"The greatest amount l ever
found in money in one coat was q
ten dollar bill, but several times I've
found two and FIVE dollar bills and
one dollar bills by the score. Once
found check for $Ioo, but as
that was no good to me returned
it to the owner and received dollar
reward for my honesty. The best
find, however, was several years ago
when I discovered a bunch of rail
road coupons between the lining and
inside cloth of one of these fancy
vests. l suppose I might have cash
ed the coupons and received ST. LOOK
for them, but there was some risl
to such a proceeding. So conclud
ed to turn them over to the owner
and trust to his generosity. He gave
me $Ioo in bills and commended INK
for my honesty. He had missed th'
coupons and had advertised for them
Later / found that he had offered ;
reward of 5000 for their return
You can bet l was mad then that
didn't get more for returning them
"As for important letters, | nigh
say that they come to us in droves
Generally we read them and chucl
them in the fire. It's the best way
If a man has lost a letter which
would incriminate him he doesn'
like to have it turn up. 1t will al
ways worry him little, but he live
in the hope that it is lost for gooc
and gradually forgets it. t."-Wdsj'ing
ton Star.
1t is said that if a woman lives ii
harmony with the laws of nature sh'
will grow more beautiful as sh'
grows older. She should be NOR
beautiful at forty than at sixteen, i
she is not victim to the ravages o
disease. Most of the world-famou
beauties reached their zenith at forty
Helen of Troy was first heard o
at that age. Cleopatra was consid
erably more than thirty when sh
first met Antony. Aspasia wa
twenty-three when she married Per
icles and was still a brilliant fgur
twenty years later. Anne of Aus
tria was thirty-eight when pronounc