The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-29
WHEREIN HE HAS
=: ... THE BEST OF IT
BY PoIly@Penn J

Talk not Of elections to the woman
who has a new tailored suit on the
brain. It is about as reasonable to ex-
pect her to give attention to anything
else as to look for an intelligent inter
est in the Cuban situation from the
mother of young babe
Thoughts that no manly brain can
comprehend fill the mind of the girl
who needs a $50 tailored suit and has
about, $25 wherewith to become pos
sessed Of it. EI4,,. w. t. = -. :.
cit is really wicked for you to
charge SO much for anything 50 false
and feeting as a dress,' she gravely
admonishes the tailor.
what! For a dress that will last
you years9' brazenly cries that hard
ened parsonage. "You can wear it
down to the last shred, and when you
put it on three years from now people
will say, How nice she looks!' - ~
TFddlesticks! By, next winter peo-
pie will probably be saying, tBehold
her Anticipated jacketl' You know as
well as I do that no woman in her
senses can insult the public with the
same pair of sleeves two seasons in
succession. I want something that will
wear out quicker, say, ,$40."
,"Forty do4ars!i1 CRIES the man Of
dropskirt3 and..:aal49s impossible! -. i
r.. HWhy,,H: you made, my cousin, Miss
Blank, suit for $50, and-----''~
Fifty -fve,' asserts the tailor, pa
"And she is nearly twice as big as I
ann :. g - ! j:
. "That makes no difference calmly
announces the autocrat of the needle.
"And she had little vest-'' g.,
"a most hobby little vest," he af-
firms. $50,
"'And coat tails.''
HCoat tails, to be sure.' -
"But I do not want little tails.''
"She was delighted with it, muir
murs the man. =. rs:,, 49,. s,.--'. ~.
"Nor little vest.' .- =. -.
HShe thought it dirt cheap -
"Nor fub-dubs Of any kind. And I
require at least two yards less Of ma
terial. Yet you charge me the same.
It is too much! And really, if it
WASH It the tailor 8 shop, and the tailor
cold, critical, calculating creature,
she would weep for sheer vexation.
It's so hard, you see, for illogical
females to understand that, whatever
the ways Of ordinary dressmakers may
be, with that masculine genius Monsieur
the Tailor fol-de-rols make little differ
ence, and dimensions no difference at
all. "A Su1G. IL d: SulG, duQ Gudt 5 dill
there is to it. It the tailor's own way
Of figuring, and no amount Of higher
mathematics will ever help a woman
to reason it out. - Ri n
Then when she has finally succumbed
to the inevitable and recklessly ordered
the gown at any old price, and chosen
her fabric. and after, many sleepless
nights settled on the exact. style, and
even suffered her first fitting, she be-
holds, as she fare back and forth in the
land, countless tailor-mades of unspeak-
able beauty on other women. 81
And she begins tos wonder whether
tight jacket WASH a foolish choice,
and if navy blue Wouldn't have be-
come her style Of beauty better, and
| why under the sun she ,diidn It have her
coat longer, and what possessed her to
| be such an insane fool as to have red
! lining. & .o. 81
About this time, too, she meets a
friend who sports the loveliest tailored
suit, made by a treasure of a tailor for
just. $37, my dear, material and all! .
Then that damsel 81 cup is full! She
Eretires to her closet to gnash her teeth
and wish she were Of the sex that has
nothing to do but work, eat, smoke and
least an occasional ballot.