Cañon City record., 1910-03-03

are uileo Win men going 70 honest
toll. adorned with black chimneys.
With us 1t is bad form to wear a plug
hat in the morning, and 1t is worse for
US to wear it with a sack coat. But
here the plug hat is worn all day, and
with any kind Of a coat the wearer
can AFFORD.
And SO keen Is the desire for social
dinstinction that bank messengers.
who are compelled to wear brass but
tons and dark blue or dark green or
dark wine-colored coats, don high
black stovepipes and fancy other
clothing that these hide their liver
les.
The desire to be considered Some
body socially is the master passion of
hundreds of thousands OF people; and
to that passion its possessors sacri-
nee comfort. good sense and happi-
ness. So on 'busses and little COM
partments on the train, and on the
street 1t is rare that you find a group
of Englishmen talking. If they are
strangers.
The lower classes fear to intrude
on the higher. and the higher fear
that they will contaminate themselves
by speaking to the lower. and as all
wear plug hats and badly fitting
clothes. no one knows any one else's
station and no one seems sure OF his
own.
Therefore. they sit In solemn ST
lence, where with US. the lawyer from
Denver would be telling the Chicago
broker the new one" that the Salt
Lake drummer told him last week.
while the whole smoker laughed IN
til the Kansas City commission man
asked II they had heard "the one about
the Jew who wanted his life insured
The English miss a lot of fun by
sticking for their social rights. And
you would think that men who set
such store by being social somebodies
would wear clothes to At the part
But the Engiishmen are the worst
dressed male animals on earth. Far
be II from this deponent, who never
shrinks at wearing anything Sam
puts on him; far be II from
him to set himself up as a glass OF
fashion. And yet he would not wear
the clothes these English wear II he
lost the advertising OF the Star Cloth
ing House in the Gazette for a year.
And what's more. Sam Rosenfeld
hasn't a suit in his stock as badly
set" as these English clothes. We
went out one day TO a clothes show
the Harrow cricket match. All
the swells OF England were there
and as It was an invitation AFFAIR. no
one else was there but Lords and
EarIs and Dukes and Honorables. and
the face cards of the deck. And such
clothes, They wore for coats three
button. old-fashioned ''cut-aways."
that hiked up in the neck. wadded un-
der the arms, wrinkled across the
back and bulged out in front like the
breastbone of a chicken. Underneath
these coats they wore fancy vests that
creased across the front. and shirts
that didn't fit any place. The under
signed Is no dude. He gives little
thought to raiment. but he would die
of modification with an English tail
or's clothes on. and pull them off and
walk easily and nonchalantly around
in his underwear. As we walked
through the throng we heard Young
Ia ~ tx.
of Hearts beside him that the crowd
was very mixed. So many OF the
trades people are here"
But II he will agree to wear the rig
he had on that day to a football game
In Emporia. II will take Ell Raymond
and Dennis O'Connor and FIVE extra
policemen TO keep the mob back that
would guy him. And as for the women
they have their peculiarlties. They
wore evening clothes in the middle OF
the day-soft. fluffy. lacey things such
as Emporia women wear only at night
on extremely smart occasions.
1t would take a dinner at Newman's
or Dunlap's to call out the dresses
we see every morning in London. The
tailored street dress of well-dressed
American women is little worn by the
Londoners. Instead, they shop and
market and go about in chiffons and
silks and crepes and light things. It
is exceedingly queer-pretty, of
course-but different from our way.
But that's what we came here for
to see something different. II we had