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Evening star., 1912-11-03
Fall Outfits for Men at Prices to Suit Each Purse
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catering TO just such men: Indeed, he
may buy his suit in the same esta blish-
ment where he got his overcoat.
AS in the case of the outer garment,
there are all styes Of suits. from the
extreme English cut with its narrow
through the semi-Enslish. to the middle
styled suit that is fashionable Yet not
asgressiyely so. ANY one of these suits
may be bought. in almost any pattern,
better, quality for S1G-still better for
Sl2.JO-and so on up the scale of prices
until the buyer is shown d suit at $17.3J
which the haberdasher man is willing to
guarantee. This one he buys. picking out
a color that will match his overcoat-or
mayhap he has bought the suit first in
which case it is the overcoat which must
match.
Tnen come shirts-and here the man
with only So a week find a field stupen-
dous in its bigness. Probably he will not
confine his trade for these articles to one
store but will buy from several PROB
ably he will buy six shirts four for every
day wear and two for dress For his
every day shirts he will find good serv-
iceable shirts at 60 cents each For
his dress shirts he may pay 81. or il
he be extra. particular lie may pay 81 ID
each for them Perhaps he will buy one
of each Then with his expenditures for
shirts totaIing 500 he will remember
that the ties he wore last fall have be-
come rather frayed. Besides, the styles
have changed--for while the knit ties, 50
popular enc year ago. are still being
worn. fashion has all but counted their
death knell. their place being taken by
mi-fowing silks.
Ties are the one article of wearing ap-
parel which permit a man TO add IA
touch of co.or and individuality to his
rance-consequently they run the
entire gamut of color. texture, material
and price. ranging from 10 cents, for
cheap cotton material. the. right side
of which is, made TO give feeble ap-
pearance of silk by chemical process. to
the soft neckwear' of Persian silk, which
may cost So. But the man with SO a
week will find plenty of ties, not of the
finest quality of silk perhaps. but silk for
all that at a cost of only % cents each.
Naturally these will wear out quickly,
but man soon wearies of his ties and
buys new assortment anyhow. So the
buyer invests in four of the twenty-five
cent crayats, and goes away we'll sat
isaied.
Then comes the search for shoes and
socks. The shoes are easy. He can get
a good, serviceable pair, heavy enough
for most kinds of weather, yet not Stoo
heavy to answer the ordinary social re-
q,iirements, for $3.50. II 1t were summer
Evening star., 1912-11-03
THE SEASON OF FREAK BETS.

! disorderly conduct and the agent asked
him to move.
Always in making freak bet the prin-
cipals try to hit upon that which will
make the loser the more ridiculous-each
of course, being sublimely confident that
1t will be the other who loses A bet that
approaches close to the quintessence OF
absGrdity was made i'm Washington, just
before the congressional election two
years ago. on the question Of whether or
not the House Of Representatives would
be republican democratic.
Shortly before o'clock on the evening
that the bet was to be paid a man in
evening clothes. white gloves and opera
hat rode up to the corner of Connecticut
avenue and X street in a big automo-
bile, got out, dismissed the chauffeur and
began walking slowly up the avenue. An
other man dressed in an ordinary busi-
ness suit, who had been waiting on the
corner, followed him about ten feet be-
hind. The man i'm the evening clothes
walked few steps. then sank to his
hands and knees where he appeared TO
pluck something from the sidewalk and
put it In his mouth. Then he rose. walk
ed few feet farther and repeated the
performance. The man in the business
suit still remained a discreet distance be-
hind him.
A crowd soon began to cOngregate and
follow the man in the evening clothes.
Utterly oblivious to them, he continued to
pluck invisible. things from the sidewalk
and eat them.
Finally, one of the more curious in the
crowd summoned his courage and walk
ed up to the peculiar one. What's the
matter" he asked Nothing" replied
the latter; nothing at all I'm merely
picking some of these strawberries. Have
some, won't you? Help yourself.
The questioner drew back, grinning, and
the grin grew still wider when the man
in the business suit tapped his fore
head significantly.
For two blocks the man in the even
ing clothes continued to pick his straw
berries from the sidewalk, the crowd
growing larger and larger. Some of them
sought information from the man in the
business suit. Don't worry" the latter
explained Hes little off. but per-
fectly harmless. I'm his keeper-he won't
hurt you-don't be afraid.
But evidently some of them were
afraid, for pretty soon one OF those in
policeman, who. certain that he had to
deal with q maniac, gripped his club
tightly and looked resolute. 1t took many
minutes to persuade him that the man in
the evening clothes was not at all crazy.
but was merely paying an election bet
lost to the man In the business suit
and when the bluecoat finally became
convinced that this was the case IL re-
quired still more persuasion to keep him
from arresting them both. for. disorderly
conduct. But he didn't.
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ONT be surprised it, in. the near
future, YOU see some frock-
coated, s!lk-hatted person of
digniffed mien down on his
hands and knees in the middle
of Pennsylvania avenue, solemniy rolling
a peanut in the direction of the river
front For this is the, season of freak
election bets, and nire chances to one
the G,gnified looking person will be mere
" one of those who lost, and is paying
up.
Some day: some historian with the time
and the inclination, will probably get on
the trail Of the freak bet and trace ; 1t
back to it's origin. 1t is probable, how
ever, that his task will be gigantic and
that it will take, him back to the earliest
days of the world. The custom of
wagering mere money or other valuables
on some uncertain result is in itself
thousands of Years old, but compared to
the freak bet 1t is a mare youngtser.
Freak bets We're probably made before
there was any such thing as money.
n
There are all sorts and varieties of
freak bets, some of which are repeated
year after year, all over the country. Of
these, the non hair-cutting bet in which
persons making the wager agree not to
cut their hair for stipulated length of
time if they lose is, perhaps, the most
common. Usually the time agreed on is
three or four nlonths-or occasionally one
year. There is one instance, however,
where the be; was carried to an un-
eqGa!ed extreme.
ManS years ago. when President An
drew Johnson was facing impeachment
proceedings there was a young man NV
ing in southern Georgia who was bitter
in his hatred of the chief executive. A
frier.i of his was enthusiastic in the
Presidents support. and the two had
many arguments, which grew more and
more heated
Hes going to be kicked out ofsoffice-
one would say.
Hes Il victim of abuse, .misdnder-
standing and ignorance" the other would
reply heatedfy They'll never impeach
him. They won't dare
Daily the arguments continued, until
finally the -one favoring Impeachment
suggested wager Tell you what,
said he. IF they impeach Johnson, you
let, your hair grow without cutting it for
Til never have my hair cut again as
long as l ive-that's giving You odds
will YOU take it
The other would and the bet was made
How both. the -wagerers got the best of
"runs for their money" and how Presi-
dent johnson escaped impeachment by q
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single vote in the United States Senate is
history, but the remarkable part Of the
matter lies in the fact that the man who
lost paid his bet-and is still paying it.
He is now past seventy and man OF
wealth and prominence in his section. but
his hair hangs far below his shoulders.
Since the day the vote of the Senate was
announced he has never had it even SO
much as trimmed.
There is certain young practicing at
torney in Washington who, it is safe to
say, positively VIII not make freak bet
Of any kind, either on the coming election
or on anything else. He made one four
years ago, and that's the reason.
AT that time the attorney was new tn
Washington. He had come up from the
south to take a final year In law at one
Of the local universities. and he was a
red-hot democrat in general and an. ar
dent Bryanite in particular. He was alb
solutely certain that the Nebraskan would
defeat ,Taft-and. strange to relate, he
shared a bachelor apartment with another
student from Connecticut who was a
dyed-in-the-wool republican. Both wanted
to bet on the election. but. being students
neither felt that he could AFFORD to risk
money. So they took it out in POLITICAL
arguments lasting far into theinight, until
both all but ran out of words.
!; :.
One night the democrat came home
with campaign song extolling the peer
less one and predicting all sorts of dire
things due to befall the republican stand
ard bearer The member of the Jeffer-
sonian party sang this song over and
over again, while his apartment mate
glowered at him. You'll sing different
song after election night" the latter said
finally
"Oh, no." returned the other, cheer
fully: instead you'll sing this song your
SELF He paused. then bright Idea
struck him. Make you bet, he re-
marked succinctly-"If democracy wins
you start at midnight on the night after
the election and walk up and down all
the halls of this building. singing my cam
paign song for two hours. If the e. .. +.
wins III do the walking and III sing
anything you say.
The democrat lost. but was game
What do you want me to sing?' he
asked. The other pondered a moment,
then smiled. You begin at midnight,
he mused AT that time everybody will
sweet slllmber You walk up and down
and sing Rock -a-bye. Baby"
The democrat did it, All through the
apartnent house he walked. singing the
same song over and over again, and when
he tried to lower his voice to what he
called a gentle Groom there stood his
apa rtment mate. inexorably ordering him
to .'spg louder"
AS result of that wager seventeen ten
ants of that apartment house threatened
to have the midnight warbler arrested for
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franchsed merely because they are resi-
dents of that District trif1e over a
fourth of these t2S,G00) are negroes. Then
there are about 1850 negroes in LOUIS
lana and North Carolina who are dis
franchised by the grandfather clauses
of the constitutions of those states. and
tens of thousands of negroes are dis
qualified. in South Carolina and MissiS-
sippi By the educational requirement that
each voteg must be able to read and I'M
derstand the constitution of the state.
Thousands of white as well as coiOred
citizens are barred by such educational
tests not only i'm the south, but in Maine
Delaware. Arizona and California, where
the voter must he able to read the Con-
stitution in English and write his name;
in Wyoming, where he must meet the
former of these qualifications: in Con-
necticut. where he must read the Eng
lish language: in New Hampshire. Wnere
he must write as well as read it, and in
Massachusetts. where he must read and
write some language. even if not that of
the land of his adoption.
Tens of thousands of our citizens are
also barred from the polls this autumn
because they are lunatics. idiots, pau
perS or persons with criminal records
Throughout the country are 10000 In
dians and Mongoiians who cannot
vote the former because they have not
yet severed their tribal relations. and
the latter because our federal laws
ton Many other citizens cannot go
to the polls Tuesday because they have
not met certain state requirements as
to paving taxes. Seven states bar SOL
diers and sailors of the federal estab-
liShment.
Probably the largest proportion Of
those who. although otherwise quail
fed. will find the polling places closed
against them Tuesday are citizens who
have oeen unable to register as voters
or who have lately removed to a new
and have not as yet estab-
lished a residence therein Tor sur
fcient time to meet the requirements
of the election laws. These laws vary
greatly, requiring a state residence OF
from six months to two years, county
residence of from twenty days TO one
year and a town or precinct residence OF
from ten days to year.
But all of these disqualihcations'
when taken together, can hardly be ac-
cepted az accounting for the absence
from the polls of half the voters VINO
remain away.
1t may be reasonably predicted, then,
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ali his ScOElnS woman SidN-
cry 10 fashion, mast look over
~ his own wardrobe and figure
out how many or how few new
articles of wearing apparel he himc IF
must buy. In other words. this is the
season of mems fall shopping. and so con-
stantly changing are the styles of late
that in most instances il will be necessary
10 buy a complete new fall outfit. With
this fact realized. the average man will
first ask himself the question. How
much can | afford to spend?" And then,
IN natural sequence. he will wonder,
How much can ] get for my money"
In an effort 10 find the answer TO both
these questions. The star repoBter made
the rounds OF tce city's shops. first seek
ing appare! within the means OF man
receiving salary of 81" Week, tnen
looking over outfittings which would catch
the eye and iii the purse of the man with
salary of Sl'B month, and finally.
visiting the most expensive and exclusive
nf haberdasher:es and outfitters. whore
are kept clothes and other articles for
the man who need not b. so particular
about the price.
IN all the shops, irrespective of their
i,rices. the fact was borne in that there is
Etii@ oT no excuse Tor any one not appear
ing Well dresSe j Naturally. in the cheaper
garments there is less quality of material
but regards suits. oyercoats. shoes and
ftp~ the patterns ana cuts of the cNclu-
sNc shop were all. or nearly ALL to be
rad in other Jess pretentious establish
1nents ~ per cent cheaper. more. Nat
arally. the more expensive garments prob
ably will wear longer. Perhaps too they
nave distinctive touch lacking in t.-
less expensive ones-bui the fact rem aim
that. for all the high cost OF living. ii +
easily possible for the man of moderate
salary To be we'll dressed from head to
foot without straining his income
There are many things which the man
with salary of only 81, week will see
when he sets out TO buy his fall outfit
which ne will like to have but can't
afford There are certain things, how
ever. which he absolutely must have, and
first among these is an overcoat. Visit
ing the various shops. he will be confront
ed by a bewildering variety of styles.
He will he shown one of the loose.
round shouldered short raglan coats. de-
cidedly English in style and shaped. when
worn like an inverted cone. II he wishes
a pronounced English type he may have
such u coat in large checks or plaids. or
in dark red. purplish brown. or dark
green If he be conservative I'm his tastes
lie may have the same coat in modest
gray. dark bIue-almost any other color
known to man.
But while English styles are perhaps
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GQeSddl(S Battle

CEVENTEEN Millions Ex-
~ pected at the Polls-Why
Nine Million Citizens Quail
fed by Age and Sex Will Not
Vote-Line of Voters at Polls
Would Stretch Diagonally
Across Continent From Point
of Florida to Northwest Cor
ner of Washington-Farm-
er Vote the Largest-How
Other Occupations Rank
700, 200 Candidates in the
Field This Fall, One for
Every Two Dozen Voters
One IN Fourteen Voters Is
of Tender Sex-Methods and
Paraphernalia to Be Used IN
the Balloting.
BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

numbered two 10 -one by the naturalized
foreigners and those of foreign parentage.
The possible naturalized vote in New
York city is as great as the possible
total vote of Boston and Cincinnati COM
bined.
Glancing over our great army OF citi-
Zens of voting age, we find the largest
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business men, then those of the clerical
class, by which ] mean, not preachers.
but clerks. bookkeepers. stenographers,
etc. and lastly, the professional class,
who can enlist a force OF but ,0Ai,OOO.
So YOU can see pretty, clearly that in
the choice of our next President. the
farmers mechanics and laborers will
Evening star., 1912-11-03
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of liberty. Independence Hall, in 1915. the
year that James Monroe was first elected.
In those days candidates furnished their
own ballots and their henchmen hung
about the polling places to press them or.
voters and see that they were deposited
in the open ballot boxes In some of our
states elections were conducted by yea
and nay vote in the early days. and in
Kentucky this system was legal for local
elections until only twenty-one years ago.
In jackson county, that state. 1t used TO
be the custom to elect a sheriff by ar
ranging the friends of one candidate on
horseback on one side of the road and
the friends of the other candidate on
the opposite side, the longest line winning
the election. But Kentucky estab-
lished on her soil the first Australian vot-
ing booth adopted in this country. in
1888.
All of Tuesdays votes for President will
be cast according to the Australian sys-
tenn, modification of 1t. except in
Georgia and the Carolinas. In Georgia
the Australian system is sometimes used
in municipal primaries. but this Is left To
party discretion and is not required by
law.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

TESDAY next, fo-
the first time in
history, our every
county from ocean
to ocean, from
Canada to Mexico
and the gulf, VIII
vote for President
of these United
States. No terri
tory now remains
in all of this vast
continental stretch.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

The fact that all of the states except
means fair progress. considering the fact
that it was never used In a national cleo
ton until that OF Harrison. in 1888, and
then only in Massachusetts and Louis
vile. 1t generally followed the system by
which the party instead of the candidate
supplied and distributed the ticket, and
it went a step further by providing tick
cts of all parties paid for and distributed
by the state and deposited in individual
booths or stalls guaranteeing privacy to
voters.
Where this system has been carried
nearest to perfection the voting booths
are small portable buildings owned by the
community and. that they may be free
from all private influences, so placed on
the public highways or in the public
squares that every side is exposed to the
glare Of publicity. AS yet. however, the
typical polling place in our cities and
towns is a rented room opening into the
street.
In ten of our states a part at least of
Tuesdays balloting will be done by vot-
ing machines. devices on the cash-regis
ter and arithmometer principle, which
automatically count the votes for each
candidate and give returns the minute
tfldl the DOOlH is Closed. on LHeSe md
chimes the voter records his choice in pri-
vate and is able to split his ticket. al
though unable to repeat without leaving
the. booth and reopening the doorway,
which resets the mechanism.
In such ways is machinery almost doing
our thinking for us. Perhaps within a
few years some genius will invent de-
vice by which we can predict the result
of a presidential election with mathe-
matical precision. Perhaps.
Copyright 1872 by John Elfreth Watkins,
Evening star., 1912-11-03

BE il appreciated, os.Ivvcr. that none Of
these factors has sYoren dependable in
years past. For &xEailple, the only previ-
Gus campaign ia Xhich Col. Roosevelt
was presidential candidate-the spirited
contest OF lSi-failed to bring out as
many votes, by several hundred thousand
as had either of the two previous Mckin-
ley-Bryan campaigns. That of Roose-
Welt against Parker was, however. the
only presidential campaign since recon
struction which failed to show an increase
IN the popular vote. The Taft-Bryan
campaign brought out over one and
third million more votes than the Eocse-
Nelt-Parker contest, which mad persuaded
10 the polls 432-00U less votes than had
turned out in the previous Mckinley
Bryan battle.
Why millions qualified by age and sex
10 vote fan quaarennialy to show up al
the polls is mystery which always
NeXes the politician and puZZ. es the stat
Istician. The director OF the census has
just supplied me with some newly COM
Puted figures which throw some light
upon the problem. He finds that in the
iast census year. 1910, there We're in con-
tinental United States 26.999.131 males of
voting age, and in the ,present woman
suffrage states. including California and
Washington. .346.925 women of voting
aSe. Allowing for an increase of popu-
iation in the past two years. the total of
these figures grows to 23..,O0 00o De-
ducfing about II per cent of those who
cannot vote because they fail to receive
lie proper naturalizatio papers we have
1T more than 26,G00,OG0 men and women
TIA ified by age and citizenship 70 vote
Il the presidential contest Tuesday.
about nine million of these will remain
way from the polls. Why?
To begin with. there are just about an
ven 10000 male citizens of voting age
- the District of Columbia who are dis
Evening star., 1912-11-03

Even though our election morals are
not yet what they should be, our cleo
tion manners have vastly improved since
the days when the typical polling place.
either a rumshop or convenient room
adjoining, was the scene of constant
brawling and disorder; where bribery
and intimidation were at the height OF
effectiveness, because every one could
see how his neighbor voted. Indeed,
within the memory Of men still alive, our
election etiquette had not in many places
progressed far beyond it's standard over
2,00O years ago, when the Roman his
tOrian, Dion, complained:
when the people insisted upon giving
their cotes, the young patricians hinder
ed and took the urns Cballot boxes from
those appointed to keep them, and drove
them out of tEe forum"
The accompanying etching is from an
old painting in the Philadelphia historical
society depicting a scene Of disorder be-
fore polling place in front Of our cradle
Evening star., 1912-11-03
AUSTRALIAN
WoTHG BOoTH
for TpEspA1.

have far bigger say than the business
men, off1ce-workers, lawyers. doctors,
prea chers, teachers and writer's.
You will be surprised when 1 tell you
that IL all the candidates who are run
ming for Office this fall were lined up,
as we did our voters, there would be
7OO,OO Of them in the procession, and
they would stretch 49, miles, or the dis
tance from New York to Springfield.
Mass. There are five parties in the fled
this year. and in addition to their ma
tional and state candidates at least four
OF them will have various tickets in each
of the 1900 counties of the country, each
OF which is divided into various town
Ships boroughs or cities, with their own
tickets for local Offices. In other words
there is in the land one candidate for
each two dozen voters expected at the
polls.
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TYp1cA1Po1L1NePL

class to consist of farmers and others
engaged in agriculture Of one kind or
another. There are about ten millions OF
these. and tile next greatest element, nu-
merically, is the -labor-.vote.a There are
about 9.WD.GO lai3orers in the country.
but a large proportion :. Of: hese, =, are
women who cannot vote. Next rank the
Evening star., 1912-11-03

Seventeen millions of voters VIII propa-
bly, participate in this our thirty-second
duadrennial battle of the ballots. Should
all of these be drawn up single file in "a
straight compact line, whose leader stood
at the threshold of a voting booth in the
northwesternmost corner of Washington
state the last man would be found some
where down in the tip of Florida's PENN
sula.
-Four years ago just IA. SIS. AZ Americans
voted for President Since then suffrage
has been given to $4,000 more of our
women-in California and Washington
10000 males of voting age have been
admitted to statehood in Arizona and
New Mexico. and the country has profit
ed. through its steady increase OF pUpula-
ton. by about 2.500.OG0. who in their
states are qualified, by age and sex to
vote. Allowing for the usual proportion
" no Will be absent from the polls and yet
for reasonable co-efficient of expansion
to cover effects of the extraordinary heat
OF this campaign. We arrive at the grand
total given-11. .00n.G00 voters at the polls
day after tomorrow.