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Show APPAREL AND THE MAN, i i Truth That BhnkespearuKnew Where--of He Spoke Is Seen Every Day in Buitnesa World. Among the mostjvnluablo assets tho worker In almost any field can have aro tho razor,, the shoe brush and tho tooth powder. Theso aro possessions within the reaah of anyone. To havo 1 thorn and use them Is a powerful help 1 Pwrd Biiccesa, To neglect thum Is or.e of the surest means of meeting failure. There Is no man, no matter how careless ho may bo of his own personal per-sonal appearance, that would not rather talk business to n man who Is cleanly shaven, whose shoes nre shlnod, whose teeth nro white, and whoso linen In In good condition, than to n man who is careless about Ills appearance. Employers know thnt tho careful salesman usually sells the most goods. They know, too, that Shakcspoaru was right when ho said that tho apparel doth oft proclaim the man. They reason thnt unless a man thus respect for himself ho docs not much mind whether others have respect re-spect for him or not. And a man who cannot Inspire respect In thoBe with whom ho does business Is not half bo 1 valuablo as the man who can. First Impressions often nro tho strongest Impressions. A woll groomed man wins Ills wny where the shabbily clad man Is refused a hearing. hear-ing. Most big business concerns Insist In-sist either indirectly or by printed rule upon attention to the little do talis that go to make up u man's general gen-eral nppcarnncc. Cleanliness is not only next to godliness, god-liness, hut it nlso Is next to success. Any man who has been in business for any length of time can point out follow workers who would huvo succeeded suc-ceeded better had thoy paid more attention at-tention to their appearance. Thoy don't have to bo "dudes" to make good, but even at that "dudes" have mado good where tramps have failed. If It Is necessary to make a choice, better bo n "dudu" than a tramp. The latter may get more shiftless satisfaction sat-isfaction out of himself, but tho former for-mer gives more satisfaction to others, nud It Is largely tho others who mako or break n man In business. |