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Show An Obsolete Fawhlon. Coming over on tho Brooklyn Bridge cars I saw an aged gentleman wenrhfe a comfortable gray shawl wrapped around bis drooping shoulders. The sight was unusual, though it was quite common i dozen or more years ago. Turning to a well known dry goods man who sat next to me I asked him, "Do you have many calls for gentlemen's shawls now?" "No," he answered. "Our Jinn has not sold a gentleman's shawl in three years. We do not keep them in stock any longer. Scarcely anybody wears them now." 1 subsequently asked several other dry goods men and gentlemen's furnishers the same question, and from all I received the same answer. The custom of shawl wearing by aged gentlemen has becomo almost entirely obsolete. New York Continent. i |