Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — Fixed His Fishing Suit. [ARTICLE]

Fixed His Fishing Suit.

If there is any one thing the average man likes it is a fishing su; f shows he is a true sportsman. Thai doesn’t mean a suit that has been bought to serve such a purpose, since a new suit or a regulation sporting suit names him right away an amateur, but it does mean a suit that has outworn its days of general usefulness and has reached a fitting stage of shabbiness and distinction. A man who is away for the Maine woods in a few days laid such a desirable fishing suit out to pack. He bad been saving it carefully for that very purpose; Meanwhile he left orders that a certain suit of clothes should be sent to the tailor’s to be cleaned and pressed. “He said a gray suit,” soliloquized the maid who undertook to carry out the order. “But this blue suit looks so much worse, lie must have meant blue when he said gray.” The blue suit was therefore bundled up and hurried away. That old fishing suit came back, sponged, scoured and pressed into correct little creases. The final blow came in a remark of the tailor’s. “I’ll have to charge more than ordinary for that suit.—lt was in very bad shape,” lie said.—New York Evening Sun.