Show the well dressed man there is a pertain professor in a certain university of the united states who once at the beginning of ono of his leo tures on fine arts got on the subject of tho kind of pins worn in the neckties of young collego men he was a good lecturer and was always interesting but this lecture was the most interesting of his course to the boys who heard him wad the whole hour was spent on necktie pins their use and misuse and what they suggested the gist ho said was that there was no more reason chya boy should wear a horseshoe with a whip across it alli nigol than that houses should have sieves ft roofs and that asit as it was extremely foolish to put a big sieve on your house for a root BO it was quite aa foolish to wear horseshoes on your neckties the principle of this is that you should have a reason in what you wear as well ag in other things and that senseless decora tiona like horseshoes on neckties or neckties on horseshoes are silly and unbecoming to a belf respecting person this particular example was only one to illustrate a principle which is that nothing unusual queer out of the ordinary is in itself a good thing that in fact most things that are queer and out of the ordinary ore likely in the question of dress to be in bad taste A mans dress ought to be quiet but it must be clean and well taken care of in every instance the best dressed man la the man who in whatever company ha finds himself is inconspicuous who you realize in an indefinite way is well appointed though you cannot well tella why harpers bound table |