Show v BILL NYE ON CLOTHES HE CHANCES TOGS TO SOME PUR POSE AT A CHICAGO HOTEL being rotated quarters its it itaas a shave and ud a R now suit and DI it Is wet wel coal chicago either las bas better hotel accola than abe bo tiled need to have or at I 1 present a more inviting appearance nt at the hotel desk than then I 1 did I 1 remember of landing in tho the city a few years ago from the we west I 1 camo came to buy ft a now job press and some colored ink foi for printing culling calling carda and wedding stationery in raj my mountain borne home I 1 ca cn 11 only remember dimly tha costume I 1 wore ware but I 1 now bellevo that cay toy general appearance had bad something to do with my toy failure to secure good quarters cra ola as a a remit result it give me a false impression of chicago hospitality I 1 wore as nearly aa as I 1 can now kemem ber a act of at bronze whis sere with a lit t tie alkali dust in them a soft rather vr adish and slightly debilitated hathorn hat wora worn wl with th a rakish air on ono one ide side I 1 re member that I 1 wore my overcoat coat a food good deal more than other people did but thia this waa was partly became because I 1 had forgotten my beneath coat cost and bated to go about the streets of chicago in my shift 1 yes I 1 bad had a BOW now pair of boots that I 1 of tar or they were 1 eo so squall erne and symmetric fad and re that I 1 did not mind the pain they gave me the heels were high and the instep arched and graceful and tho the top tops were of beautiful bronze morocco laced up with ecru corset airing strings of tho the amo same my bly manner waa was free and debonnaire debon nair though I 1 had been a justice of the peace and had money enough in my to buy a gordon job press and a small line of ornamental type for card and equestrian work at home I 1 can eo now that the clerk at the deak desk alwa almaa s hesitated about assigning me a cociu even before he be hid retired to look over bis his tally sheet at the aar of the office in this way war I 1 went to one hotel after another signing my name smaller and stud smaller leas and less like my own and more and more like donnis dennis until the arey of dawn down came gently across tho the cold blue bosom of the lake I 1 gradually the hush that lay along the river the grim and river was broken and sea business on dark clark street awakened I 1 went in at first to ta tb khop of a barber and bands hands with my bronze abl whither ers lor for the last time I 1 file filed them away in the dim garret of the past put then I 1 went to a ebon shop where clothes were being befog sacrificed just as they are today to day I 1 thought bought a fow low toga togs that were quiet and laid aside the fortissimo trousers I 1 had bad taking care however to re place them with others batore merging emerging to the street when I 1 came forth I 1 had bad also a now hat in those daye days men wore a small spoon poon shaped hat which ia is greatly affected by the low comedians on the stage at present I 1 looked like a butterfly of fashion when I 1 camo came into the sunlight I 1 buried my black enamelled enamel led grip oear near where w here dr Cron lna body was found and by evening I 1 had resolved res olred to go to the best hotel eid atay stay a day or two IAM I 1 am glad I 1 did for it gave me a aa which JJ W 1 AUD AND nib 1118 la Is still noticeable ia evea in the beart circles of europe end and jollet joliet bo so I 1 aay say that erea even in chicago clothing makes a difference the artist has his shown that the improvement was hardly enough to warrant the chango change in my reception and y yet 0 t I 1 got the bridal chamber at one of tho best of hotels burned out a whole lot of gas did cot not get got up till 1111 long after breakfast was and finally went home without my gordon press to brag over my season at chicago year years have added to the air of ur birj leette atte polish and bonhomme thus so fortunately inaugurated and now I 1 am ciftan asked while gastl nir with a maid of honor bonor at court or chinning some cackling old plymouth rock dowager of europe where I 1 got on at to that easy air of aplomb I 1 reply that it was in the corridor of a chicago hotel that I 1 first realized my social value after having baving been shown that I 1 had none and all this baa has been brought about within a few years too we have la in the meantime marched aloof along together tn eibar the chicago hotels and 1 I till the hotels at least aro are full lull all of the ate a I 1 never kaew whether I 1 waa was regarded by the hotels in those early daja days ax as too W L taugh looking to be outer 1110 or whether r I 1 WM was generally gena rally supposed to be morally oblique in either event it win was an entirely erroneous impression aa a obby ihn proprietor proprietors thom thought lit tbt I 1 would bo be tho of the flapped sc cru oat which upon boruff warmed ID in ibo the bosom of at tuo peasant pc ant blossomed to forab fth into an o 0 ua un 1 Ilo wever ll 11 caay may have been it waa wava good lonon lesson to me add and broke ue almost entirely ut of the uio use of plug tobacco dur inythe litany it also teaches ui us that oven even chicago Clil caco free and hospitable as she be win was tuen proud of 0 the fact that she be wn was west ivest aud dud tol ting the cold finger couleur of t boston Tl otton jet yet wn bot nuovo etli adoff the lian out of 0 the borny handed but crudo crude pol collican lican ot at the greet grout west L no na arten 1 even as laramie city society turned up bor bar nose at the ranchers of red bauc Buttes who came to tte it at laramie Larn mie with their feet feat dono done up la in jura coffee socking ikc kinz so 0 o even dd chicago coldly away from my blue morocco top boole boots with gold tan stare on the leg legs and my broad and mellow list with ban agles on the brim and a leather heirloom tor for a band in the hape shape of the now ueless useless chupper of a dear dead mule leDill mu hye nye 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