Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1911 — DO CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN? [ARTICLE]

DO CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN?

Attitude of the Modern Sage on the Subject of Dress and Its Objects. r “O, Sage,” said the young man, ”1 am surprised, almost grieved, to find that one who has such a reputation for wisdom as you, Should pay so much attention ‘to his clothes. You are as immaculate and as nobby as a young lover.” . “And why not?” asked the elder man. “Why not, Indeed?" rejoined the

young man. “I am afraid I cannot explain. Many people have told me it is foolish to pay so much attention to clothes. That’s all I know.” “It is a common error,” spoke the Sage, “but it is nevertheless an error, and one which once possessed me. When I was young as you are, I was attracted by the external things only and of these external things clothes were by far the most important When I was a little older, I underwent a reaction. I had a revulsion of feeling. Somehow I gained the idea that clothes were an absurdity in toto. I thought that the inner spiritual man was everything. According as my thoughts became introspective, I neglected my external appearance and went about unkempt and slovenly.” extremes,” suggested the young man discerningly. “Yes, the two extremes, but with neither alone was I happy. Without clothes I found I could not go among my fellows in comfort and thus the social side of me became atrophied. Without knowledge and an inward ap predation of the Important funds mentals of life, I could not be happy in my own company.” “Wherefore,” observed the young man, “you struck a happy medium by compromising on both.” r “Yes. Now I pay strict attention tc my external appearance while inwardly I laugh at the folly of the world which makes it necessary." In Spain wireless telegraph app» ratus is used to detect the approach thunderstorms.