The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-07-30
Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles)

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clothing department. The second
hand dealer, the weary tramp and the
frontier missionary. with his seven
closely graded boys, have come to his
aid in securing the heirlooms to
which he alone used to be heir APP
parent Still there is boy here and
there living under the old dispense
ton and there are men in abundance
who once lived the life of pensioners
on the bounty of preceding genera
tons Two boys were engaged in the
usual kind of a conversation and one
said: MY father has some new teeth
that the dentist made him" With sig
nificant promptness, his chum asked
What's he goin to do with his old
ones?" 20, ! don't know" was the
response, Il suppose they'll cut 'em
down and make me wear EN-"
suppose that old regime was
really due to the necessity for econo-
my, but maybe it was due to the fact
that hearty boy seldom cares for a
suit of clothes bought solely for him
and worn exclusively by him. or
course not! The rest of the time he
would rather wear clothes that his
older brother has worn, or his father
or his uncle, or his grandfather or his
great-grandfather or his great-uncle
It enables him to enter 50 happily into
the family history and preserve the
family esprit de corps. whatever that
may mean This is the original hand
me-down Such clothes also have a
decorative value that no tailor, how
ever artistic, could ever impart, In the
copious variety of pieces that are as
sembled to build and beautify boy
habiliments. and in the varied eolors
reds, yellows and browns-which his
predecessor has succeeded in bringing
out as he stood before the scorching
fire or slushed through mud and snow.
His clothes affect his feelings. his
feelings affect his conduct and Math-
ew Arnold was somewhere near the
truth when he said that conduct Is
three-fourths of character Their
clothes, conduct and character are
three terms that mean something
when written close together. His
feelings will grow out OF what he
thinks of them. There was time
when he loved to have gay clothes and
to hear people tell how pretty he
was. but he had no more respect
for his clothes than to wallow in a
mud puddle If he was not watched
Clothes that heightened his boyish
beauty meant little to him. But his
sense of the value of clothes grew
apace, especially when he would
have them to match up with his grow
ing muscle and satisfy his pride as
rapidly developing candidate for ath
letic or heroic distinction. But one
day the value of clothes began &c
soar. as the traders say. He sudden
ly learned their true mission and il
was to give him standing in certain
eyes A new world has opened up to
him and deathless interests are in
volved in the appearance he makes
Now he deliberately washes behind
his ears. shines the heels of his shoes
even when in a great hurry; find,
that a mirror is an indispensable ar
ticle of furniture for his room, gives
careful attention to parting his hail
and combs and brushes 1t all the way
back, is Inundated at the little patch
es on his trousers that are within
view of his own eyes and actual,
bushes when he thinks of patches
around on the other side of him, which
he cannot see but others can. Wher
the question OF calling to see certain
persons comes up, 1t always involve,
the prior question of clothes.
Those who were children so Ions
ago that they have forgotten all abou
It are apt to treat the whole mattei
in cavalier way and say: ut is no
your clothes, my son, that count, blu
yourself Pretty is as pretty does
All of which is true, but not all TIL.
truth. That new consciousness o;
self calls for suitable care of hii
physical self-clothes The new
sense of others requires him to prs
sent himself to them in a satisfactor.
way-clothes. A new pride in his OWL
family calls for clothes. There arr
two ways to treat this clothes in
stinct-fight II and bring on the grea
irrepressible conflict or cultivate an,
correct 1t and cooperate with him IL
doing so.
To him as to every one else, Their,
is power in apparel Let the color b,
blue and the buttons brass and tn,
seam down the trousers distinctive
and he is already nerved to deeds
heroism Put on him clothes that DE-
not wound his taste nor puff up hill
pride and he has no artificial load I,
carry. Teach him to dress himsel
with due regard to comfort and to TIN
sanctity of that sacred mystery. tn,
body, and you have given him some
the deep lessons of life. There is
culture in the art of dressing, whic,
first of all puts the man above a.
millinery and then adapts the milk
merry to him with sense OF his al
sorbing superiority.
Glass Substituted for Wood