Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-12
EJOTA/ D1EC TT ScHC Consciousness Responsible for
llOHR DS/EO III Our Apologies for Age-We XIII
C7rDTL/E1 UDTIC Our Public Men on Too Young
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taxed pianos. I suggest tax Of 81
on upright and 81 on grand pianos.
He is the savior of his country.
Order his statue made and erected in
the public square.
And then" happy thought. "thc
American tourist. Perhaps VIC can
catch half his dollar as it is being turned
into our money and he will never know
it,"
The taxes arc reformed and tho deficit
instead Of being 81 900 900, 900, is
5000, ,950,O
IL you tax you cat M what prop-
crty there is and are an enemy of man
kind.
If you don't tax you repudiatc what
debts you have, which is all the Bol.
shcvists ever threatened to do, and you
arc an enemy of mankind.
I SO you tax jumping jacks. bootaces.
gold teeth aud swaggcrsticks, and are
the savior of the race.
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CLOWLY and steadily the dress of
~ men has been assimilated to that of
the working classes.
The silks and bright colors and ruff =.
fled shirts of the gentleman of century
ago have disappeared.
The long tailed coat and top hat Of
more recent years have given place to
the soft hat and the coat without tails OF
the working man.
The stiff bosom and stiff cuffcd white
shirt has yielded to the more comfortable
colored shirt of the workingman without
starch in cuffs or bosom.
The stiff collar is giving, place to the
soft collar; and even the colorcd collar.
which only the laborer would wear n
short time ago, is now making its ap.
pearancc in better society.
THE stif white collar is the last sur
L vivor of something we have heard
very little of in recent years, 'gcn
tility."
fury gave place to the "gcntcel' man oil
the nineteenth.
The picturesque Garb which was
gentle to the sober and pcntcntia
wear which was ''genteel.
Stiffness was the accent of The
''gentecl."
Stiff hats. stiff shirt bosoms. stiff
cuffs, stiff collars. stiff coats with irOr
padding in them. stiff colors. and al,
ways the rigid contrast of white ant
black.
Man was thing of top hats ant
long tailed coats; later thing o
bowler hats and hard boiled shirts.
A certain rgidity was genteel.
Poetry wore n stiff white shirt fictior
wore stiff white shirt, we'll ironed ant
unrevealing.
Life was mice" " inclining to be hard
boiled. too.
Of that gontCcl era only the stif
white collar remains.
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A PERFECTLY good issue, bee
n through campaign or two an
stood up under pounding, offered t,
either party, whichever wants ii !
cheap coat makes a cheap man.
; A Nd here is story, to match tb
"A stories about the wild rush to sill
shirts on the part of our reckless con
) sumcrs:
Five years ago man bought sui
of clothes to wear automobiling, sui
that he wouldn't mind getting grcas
and dirt on. He paid $l1 for it at
mark down sale.
lie didn't wear it out, prcfcrring, q
you always do, grease and dirt on hi
better clothes to the trouble of changing
But the moths attacked it in critica
: areas. not having any longer, since the
have begun to feel the II. c. L.. tn
prejudice once ascribCd to them, tha
cheap cloth makes cheap moth. Th
mans wife sold the suit the other da
Q 10 second hand clothing dealer fo