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Show Why They Dress Shabbily. "Of all the tramplsh-looklng men commend me to the salesmen employed by wholesale jewelry firms and diamond merchants," said the proprietor of a Ninth street Jewelry store yesterday. "They are just about the limit. Many of them really look like bums, unkempt, unshorn exactly the opposite' of what you would naturally think they would be. I commented on the appearance of one of them the other day. 'Why don't 3'ou fellows brush yourselves up a bit and look like the real thing?' I said. He just smiled. 'I thought you were on,' he said. "We can't afford to look pros perous. See that bag?' He pointed to a shabby grip in which he carried his Eamples. 'I've got at least 520.CO0 worth of stuff In that bag. and I don't want to run any chance of having it lifted by any of the light-fingered gentry. That's why I cultivate a shabby appearance Do you see the point?' And I had to agree that he was pretty nearly right." Philadelphia Record |