The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-29
Getting Aduice

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I'D like You to giIvse, me your r advice
with the hcsitating air and the back
number surtout.
You're welcome to it, declared
the confident individual. Go to q
good tailor, pick out good cloth and
pay good price for it. That's what
isfactory.
"That's easy enough" said the
doubtful one, but the question with
. heavy winter weight. / can't wear
into rs;cto pe ne on wearing eaag st
until Christmas, tho
confident man. '1Ghristmas is q long
4 way off. J"
HNot SO awful long, said the man
with the hesitating air. And then
we we got the Indian summer before
US when man don't need an overcoat
Ap it., ts be BE- ,na5 mighty chilly wttAe4
of cold, snappy mornings before us, and
evenings, too. No sense in inviting
.'That's true, but when it does get
cold heavy coat won't be a bit un-
comfortable I've got a theory that
In this Chicago climate man needs a
good warm coat if he needs one at all.'
''That IS where you re off. There are
more days in Chicago that are just chill
| ly enough to call for something little
extra on you and not too much than
any city I know Of. Your idea might
be- all right for St. Paul or Bismarck,
but it won It work here. You can car
ry light overcoat on your arm, but
you wouldn't want to do that with
big, thick ulster, and you wouldn It
want to 60 around just about half-froz-
en-. Get light overcoat now and you
can get the heavier one later on.
cit doesn It seem to me worth while
for month or six weeks wear"
"You can use it in the spring and
It ought to last over another year, or
perhaps longer. Put moth balls in it
when you put it away. -
Then you don It think you'd get a
winter coat now70 .,.s.iz..
"Certainly not. You don't need a
winter coat any more than atoad needs
7You don It think it's likely to get
"Why, land, no1O
cit certainly ism It now. I'd Just as
soon go without a coat altogether. I
thought Of doing that, too. I don It
mean to say that I would in real zero
weather. .-.
TT should hope not; but you might as
well 40 that as 20 without one in the
first chilly days Of fall. A man al
ways feels the cold more them
That's what my wife says; but
I ought to get a winter coat. She $
been arguing with me for the last week
trying to get me to get fall over
coat :
nYour wife''s right.''
edo you think so9'
"I certainly do. She knows what
you need better than you do.''
1T don't believe she does. I DOM
see why she should. She doesn It have
to wear the coat, and I do. Some PEG
pie feel the cold more than others
What you might call chilly day Nigh
| be very comfortable for me, and vic,
~ versa. I think man 8 about the hes
judge himself Of what he wants tt
wear: ANYWAY, I'm ~ going 4t to get
short-tailed. fall overcoats may sui
=, some people, but I don It believe any
body wears them except for style ani
II I IN in favor Of comfort
N "Say,'' said the positive man
"what do you ask my advice forq 70,
don It want any advice. You were go
ing to take your own pig-headed way
about it, anyhow. Why did you asl
. my opinion when you knew it wouldn !
cut any Ice with youa !"
been any sort Of sensible advice" re
n torted the undecided man. ttBut
k didn't suppose you'd be such chum]
as to advise me to get one Of those foo
h light overcoats. chicago News.