Eureka Reporter | 1903-12-18 | Page 7 | Cared Little for Dress

CARED LITTLE FOR DRESS f william E Glad gladstone tone never a leader of fashion of gladstone a recent writer haytt say it no premier in the last halt half century paid less attention to his clothes than did mr air gladstone his ills hats were particularly shabby his frock coat coats of uncertain age and his nether garments much bage d at the knee with sitting at a desk this disregard however extend only to periods when he was out ot of office when in downing dow street he dressed almost smartly for a man of his age how many years service mr air gladstone extracted from his famous inverness cape we do not know anyhow he started with it on his first midlothian Mid lothian campaign and he was still wearing it after the general election of 1892 in edinburgh he appeared to wear the same hat year at af ter year but it may have been fetched north tor for the occasion as a mascot as he generally drove about bareheaded and very few of his constituents ever saw him with his head covered