Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Appearances Were Deceptive. [ARTICLE]

Appearances Were Deceptive.

He was a very shabby person indeed. His clothes were of that muchworn character .that precludes any attempt at description. He had cotton in his ears, and he wore a most disreputable hat, yet there he was in one of our large city dry goods stores, as much out of place as a stoker In a drawing-room. No one paid any attention to him. every one having come to the conclusion evidently that he was a workman or some porter looking for a job; anything, in fact, but a purchaser. At last, after he had flgeted about for some time, he started off toward the cloak department and presently came back with an obsequious floorwalker, who called out: “Show this gentleman your fl nest sealskin wraps. ” Every one- looked in astonishment ■at the seedy figure, and one young woman had the grace to ’rerhark: “Excuse me, sir, 1 thought you were looking for a cloth garment.” “No, miss, seal skin ain’t good enough for my little gal, and I guess if there was anything more expensive her pap ’ud buy it for her.” Only a little every-day happening; but it teaches the lesson that flie clothes do not always mean the fattest pocket hooks. .