Show VANITY WENT WITH GREATNESS Peculiarities of Famous Men In Self Adornment rn tolling of tho various means of solfadvcrtlscmcnt adopted by certain authors a critic says that Alexander Dumas tho elder delighted to appear In tho uniform of tho national guard of France with medals pinned to his I breast though it Is doubtful whether his motive was anything deeper than a vain childish delight In gnuds Ho was tho sort of man ono of his enemies en-emies once remarked who was capable ca-pable of riding behind his own carriage car-riage In order to prove that ho kept a negro In his service A certain literary person once appeared lh tho stalls of a London theater wearing a jeweled brooch In his long hair but 10 was anticipated In this respect by Thcophllo Gautlor whoso manycolor ed waistcoat was always tho most conspicuous object In any theater which ho entered and oven by Disraeli Dis-raeli with his rings outside his gloves and his green trousers It is snld that U Paul Bourget also woro green trousers when ho was a denizen of tho Lutln quarter but that was in tho days of poverty and early struggles and perhapse ho had no others |