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Show ECONOMY IN HO PRICES Well Dressed Man Explains How He Buys Expensive Clothes and Wears Them Many Years. Two well dressed men, at least they were so far as one not thoroughly ex pert In what good clothes are could Judge, were talking about the cost of them. "I paid $80 for this suit," said the elder man, "and " "Gee whiz!" Interrupted the younger, young-er, "that's too much for me to pay for one suit of clothes. Why, I gave only $15 for this suit I have on." "Very nice looking suit, too," admitted ad-mitted the other. m "It was marked down from $20," the younger confessed, as though desirous of apologizing for wearing a $15 hand me-down. "As far as I can see," he went on with some degree of self-grat-ulatlon, "yours doesn't look to ba $G5 better." "How long have you worn yours?" Inquired the older. "This is the second year. Two years Ih as lone as I wear a suit." "And this Is the eleventh year I've had mine. Of course, I haven't worn It every day. and I have had the tsflor keep in good condition, as you see, though this is the last year of its life, so your $15 suit at $7.50 a year Is about as extravagant as my $80 suit at $7.30 a year. Isn't It? Besides, I've been wearing an $80 suit from the best tailor in town while you are wearing the $15 hand-me-down picked up wherever you happened to see the reduction sale. I practise economy in all things, and for that reason I wear the best clothes I can buy and look like a millionaire If I'm not one." |