Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — Jim Fenton on Clothes. [ARTICLE]

Jim Fenton on Clothes.

Jim, who had been in deep thought, looked up and said # “Do you know that that don’t seerp, so queer to me as it used to? It aeems all right fur perticular friends to call nw Jim, but clo’es is what puts the Mister into a man. I felt If coinin’ when I ’looked Into the glass. Says I to. myself: ‘Jim, that’s Mr. Fenton as is now afore ye. Look at ’im sharp so that if so be ye ever see ’im agin ye’ll know ’im.’ I never knowed exactly where the Mister came from afore. Ye have to be measured fjoPt. A pair o’ shears an’ a needle an’ thread an’ a hot goose js what changes & man into a Mister. It’s a nice thing to find ou,t, but it’s uneomf'table. It ain’t so bad as it would be if ye couldn’t strip it off when ye git tired on’t, an’ it’s a good thing to know.” “Do clothes make Belcher a gentleman?” inquired Mr. Benedict. “Well, it’s what makes him a Mister, any way. When ye git his clo’es off thar ain’t nothin’ left of ’im. Dress ’im up in my old clo’es as has got tar enough on ’em to paint a boat, an’ there wouldn’t he enough man in ’im to speak to.”—“ The Story of Sevenoaks ,” in Scribner for August.