The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-21

it appeared that szeinicki, when on his country estate, invariably dressed him Sslf like a tortoise. He wore a leather suit designed with big scales, in exact imitation of the slowest of animals
 The Madrid newspaper "Heraldo" some time ago devoted an article to the freak costumes imposed by retired electrician, named Linares, upon his domestic servants. Each person in the house represented a particular flower, their outer garments being embroidered with roses, lilies, yiolets and so on. SenOr Linares' own garments were adorned with carnations.
 One of the queerest characters of Montmartre, in Paris, some ysars ago was a miser, reputed to be a million aire, who paraded the streets garbed in brightly printed cotton, of the kind generally used for wOmen's blouses. Psre Greville, as he was called, had mania for pockets. He usually had at least six on the front of his cotton jack ct, and out of each projected packet of grimy papers. Greville never wore a hat, but carried an umbrella over his head in all weathers.
 Gold lace seems to have been the fad of a gentleman, described in the Berlin Post" as a rich Silesian landowner" who was fined at the. police court for causing crowd to assemble. ''The ac- cused's clothing, which was made of blue serge" says the report, twas com pletely coyerel with gold lace and braid. Even his shoes were thus decorated. The accuseds brother explained his conduct on the ground of eocentriciIy, and stated that he possessed no fewer than two hundred suits of clothes, all embroidered with gold in various de- signs"
 At the bankruptcy of a Hungarian magnate named Mszenyi it trsnspired that seventy-two thousand pounds Ster- ling had been spent on clothes in four years. A specimen suit was produced in court. All the buttons were set with diamonds and & watch was sewn into one of the cuffs. The seams were hid-
 den by rows of pearls. M.. Mezenyi possessed 0 pair of shoes made of glass,
 which" says the report, Inc always
 wore at home, being inordinately proud Of his feet"
 Clothes which can bs, worn inside out
 are the queer freak of M. Sieversliy, ! nephew of one of the Czar's chamber lains. Sieversky spent years in invent ing a reversible overcoat, and in winter he makes 8 practice of entering one of his friends houses dressed in beaver and leaving it in reindeer skin. His
 waistcoats are all reversible, and their owner boasts that he can attend a we'd ding and a funeral in the same gar- ments.
 Queer ideas of art are responsible for many bizarre garments. During the height of the new art craze in Vienna Herr Kasparowitch, a Pole, were the
 most marvellous clothes on record. His sleeves were adorned with sinuous mai dens in colored braid, while anaedlic, unnatural trees, similarly embroidered, sprouted from the bottom of his sEtrous- CTS up to his Waistcoat. His coat fell away in graceful curves, and was em- { broidered on the back with lotus flow CTS. Kasparowiteh attempted to found new school of dress, but his project was killed by ridicule. ..E.... The sartorial effects of Signor Gra- glia, a rich Neapolitan contractor, were achieved with mirrors. All Graglia' s clothes had looking glass buttons, and
 were "inlaid" with medallions of the same dazzling material. When he was out walking in the sunshine" says the "Tribuna," in an obituary notice,
 his appearance was blinding, and it was impossible,4to stand with one s back to the sun and look at him." Another Italian, Signor Cortese, has all his cshlothes made of wood fibre. For years past he has been trying to put on the market a cheap cloth made of this plentiful material. Hitherto he has failed, but to show his faith, all his
 garments, including underclothing, are made of fibre cloth.
 Dread of disease accounts for many queer clothing fads. Heeren, of Copen- hagen, breaches against scanned gar ments as dirt collectors" and himself wtars 8 single knitted suit of combina- tion form, which is washed once a week. Another Scandinavian gentle man regards unventilated clothes as a danger to dealth, and wears cloth ven-
 tilated with tiny holes of the kind punched in hats. Senor Jimeres, well known in Madrid, dresses, summer and winter, in pure white, which he de- scribes as the only sanitary color.
 For affectation nothing beats the sys- tenn of dress devised by Otto Hanau, a young beet sugar merchant, whose freaks convulsed Budapest some years ago. Herr Hanau had suit of clothes made in material matching the paper in every room in his big house. His dressing gown was adorned with big suntiowers, matching the decoration of his dressing room, his smoking jackets had Oriental designs which harmonized with the eastern decoration of his semocking room. and he had number less lounge sl1its of white and oo13