Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-17


Sometimes | think that comely
nress ought to go with cofle'y do
tion.' said Abe. ''Eut that's n 5aaing
you can't learn In books. There's no
gramnarian Of the language Of dress
Then I'm 50 big and awkward. It's
Il rather, hopeless problem
You're in good company. Kelso
assured ilirn. Mature guards her best
men with some sort of singulariry.
moi attractive to others Often she
makes them odions with concait or
deforlnity or dumbnass ol' s'ai'rnlity.
Dante was such 4 poor talker that
no one would ever ask him 10 dinner.
If it had not been So ! presume his
muse would have been sadly crippled
by Indigestion If you had been II
good dancer and a lady's faVorife. |
wonder If you would have studied
kirkhaln aud Burns and Shakespeare
and Blackstone and Starkie. and The,
science of surveying and beer elected
to the legislature. ! wonder If YOU
could even have whipped Jack Arm
strong"
"Or have enjoyed the friendship Of
Bill Berry and acquired national
debt, or have saved my imperiled
country in the war with Black Hawk, :
Abe laughed.
In. the matter of dress the nostn1as
ter had great confidence III the taste
and knowledge Of his young friend,
Harry Needles. whose neat appear
ance Abe regarded with serious adj
lniration. So he asked Harry to go
with him on his new mission and help
10 choose the goods and direct tire
tailoring, for It seemed to him high
y important enterprise
Our appropriation IS only fifteen
dollars" said Abe as they CGMe III
sight Of '.the Zig riiIage' ca a warm
bright day late in October OF course,
can't expect ~ make myself look
ike the President Of The United
states with Snch Il sum. but want 10
look like ~ r4~, .t.tahie citizen of she
United States, il that is possible. I'll
give the old Abe and fifteen dollars
to boot for Il new one and We'll see
what comes OF it,
Springfield had been rapidly chang
ing. 1t was still small and crude, but
some of the best standards OF civiliza-
ton had been set up in that commun-
ity. Families Of wealth and culture
in the East had sent their sons and
ahr hai, nj fc
metropolis of the land OF plenty to go
into business Handsome, welI-groomed
horses in silyer-mounted harness.
drawing carriages that shone so you
could see your face in Them" TO quote
from Abe again, were on it's streets
The two New Salem men stopped
and studied a big sign in front OF a
large store on which this announce
menta had been lettered:
Cloths, cassinettes, cassimeres, vel
vet silks, satins, Marseilies waistcoat-
ing, fine, calf boots, seal and morocco
pumps for gentlemen, crepe lisse, lace
wells. Thibet Shawls, fine prunella
shoes
Reads like foreign language to
me-" said Abe. How would you like
a little Marseilles waistcoating:
Suddenly a man touched his shoul-
der with hearty "Howdy, Abe?f
1t was Eli, the Wandering Jew,
as he had been Mont 10 c;iIl himself
in the days when he carried a pack
on the road through Peters Bluff and
Clary's Grove and New Salem TO
Beardstown and back.
Dis is my store said Eli.
Your store" Abe exclaimed.
VA, look at de sign.
The Jew pointed to his sign-board,
some fifty feet long under the cornice,
on which they read the legend:
Eli F'redenberg'S Emporium
Abe looked him over from head to
foot and exclaimed:
My conscience! You look as if you
had been fixed up to be sold to the
highest bidder"
The hairy, dusty, bow-legged, thread
bare peddler~ had been touched by
some miraculous hand. The lavish