Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — Hints to Gentlemen. [ARTICLE]

Hints to Gentlemen.

Don’t be untidy in anything. Neatness is one of the most important of the minor morals. Don’t wear apparel with decided colors or pronounced patterns. Don’t — we address here the male reader, for whom this brochure is mainly designed —wear anything that is pretty. What have men to do with pretty things! Select quiet colors, and unobtrusive patterns, and adopt no style of cutting that belittles the figure. It is right enough that men’s apparel should be becoming, that it should be graceful, and that it should lend dignity to the figure; but it should never be ornamental, fanciful, gfotesci uei odd, ‘eapriclotrs nor pre- ty. Don’t Wear evening dress in the morn" ing, or on any occasion before 6 o’clock dinner. Don’t wear black broadcloth in the morning, or, at least, don’t wear black broadcloth trousers except for evening dress. Don’t wear your hat cocked’over your eye, nor thrust back upon your head. One method is rowdyish, the other rustic. " Don’t wear trinkets, shirt-pins, fin-ger-rings, or anything that is solely ornamental. One may wear shirtrstuds, a scarf-pin, a watch-chain and a seal, because these articles are useful; but the plainer they are the better. Don’t clean your ears, or your nose, or trim and clean your finger-nails in public. Cleanliness and neatness in all things pertaining to the person are indispensable, but toilet offices are proper in the privacy of one’s apartment only. Don’t chew or nurse your toothpick in public—or anywhere else.-—Na> chai i ye.