Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-15

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neck anc led,
screaming ana scuffiins, into the back
ard OF Fashions gilded home. where
they were stretched upon the bloch and
murdered.
All? Well, maybe not all. On u reca-
oituIation OF the vote we find that the
rock coat was saved from the wreck
age They almost got the frock coat
but at the last moment it bounded dex-
rerously over the back fence and lay in
hiding until the siaughterers had gone
away.
But that IS i mere speck of consolation
upon the ocean of desolation. Fashion
aoly the tat man is as dead as last
years polite platform.
You see, the International Association
OF Custom Cutters held meeting here
some days ago, ostensibly TO consider
whatever minor changes have been made
necessary by their combined opinions.
Really they met TO slaughter the fat
man, 10 consumnlate a plot that is
twenty-five years in the growing. And
they did it; you bet, they did,
For the plethoric ones there are three
things left to do:
Exercise.
Stay at home in the old iounging robe
ana down-at-the-heel slippers
Wear the old styles and explain that
YOU think the new styles are foolish.
Additionally tine fat man may fall glad
soneIy upon the neck of the old frock
coat and bind II TO him with hoops of
steel as Shakespeare says. But the sum
mer time is coming, Jessie dear, and the
man who tries to wear a frock coat when
the temperature is sliding to second base
like Ty Cobb Is inviting one of two
tiiingS-apoplexy or visit 10 quiet lit
tie retreat where tie soft grooming of the
guests is the only sound that breaks
upon the soft, quiet night
Exercise - bathrobe ancient styles.
That's what tine custom cutters have done
10 the fat man,
Now comes the tale of how the OBJ
server learned all this. The editor is no
slim and willowy person himself He
suspected things when he read about the
transparent vest
Il have been looking for this revolu-
ion for some time explained the edi-
ror 'We-us-heavy set persons
Fat?' interjected the Observer
I said heavy set" snapped the editor
Is a Walrus your ideal of something
that is heavy set?' tirnidly questioned the
Observer.
a walrus," said the editor slowly and
distinctly. ''is my ideal of a combination
Of Shakespeare W. d. Howells and Thorn
Nelson Page when he stands by COM
garrison with some of the people l meet
no til nix they can
Here the thought broke with a gentle
swapping sound. The editor got his
breath and returned TO his muttons.
AS one who has lost his waist line
said the editor. you ought to be inter-
ested personally in what is going to be
done fer you"
DO I go TO the dinner demanded the
Observer with interest.
Il have no doubt said the editor po-
Iitely. that there will be demand for
,xtra walters at such an important func-
ton as this and
The Observer fled.
Into q huge hotel. along an intermin-
able corridor, off to u little side soft
Ca4peted alIeyway and into a small re-
ception room. Here was the abiding place
of the committee on fashions. The dread
council of ten may have had something
on this committee in the way OF ferociouS
to-nality, but the Observer is willing to
back the committee on fashions at even
money.
There were three OF the committee
They had clerks
They We're thin!
Not excessively thin, YOU understand.
Theirs was that .hinness which invites
any style and approves any change in
fashion. On the table in front of them
we're ii series of little charts Occasion
ally one OF the committee would make
a little stab at the chart in front of him
The draped shoulder IS the thing
said the tall man with the nustache.
The Observer, at the threshold, shud-
dered
looks like one Of these green bags that
bOwlers carry.
No padding said the smallest man
Positively PADDING" agreed another
member.
Not even if man is bottle shoulder
ed?" pleaded the Observer. suddenly div
ing into the conversation.
The tall member of the committee look
ed at the Observer as If he would say:
Little extra pair OF trousers, who are
you?''
But he cid not He was simply formally
polite.
who co You representa- asked the
committee chairman.
The Observer raised an arm dramatic
silly.
II am here he shouted. in the inter
est of thousands of men who weigh more
than 1e0 pounds. What is to become Of
US?
Why do We not go back To the old
days when padded shoulders were the
things? Then a man tailor could do any
thing for him If the man only had q re-
spectacle waist line He could start with
that waist line and pat up sirders and
cross beams until he got d harveyizeGl
framework that would stand any amount
II stGfiiAr"
Progress, progress Fnurmured tbs
committee
Progress, continued the Observer. pas
eiouately: do you call il progress To ROT
the stout man of all the aids 10 beauty
that he has possessed2 You want &c
make OF him "a E.eranbulating advertise
snent for anti-fstt cures, Il living testi
monial to the deadly evils % good Nv
n=?''
..Progress, progress said the csnrrnit
&c.
y customs cutter who was constructed
long the general Specifications of q
Spanish rapIer came TO the Observer anG
led hiIl OUTSIDE.