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Show I FINDS VIRTUE IN OLD CLOTHES. Men's Garments Shaped to the Figure by Age Catch Artist's Eye. To the cyo of tho artist the garments gar-ments of' tho modern man aro only tolerable when ago has adapted thorn somowhat to tho lines of tho flguro; to tho avcrago artist a now suit of clothes is an abomination. 1 "It Is not only that now clothes aro moro ugly than old," said a knight of tho palotto who discussed tho question; ques-tion; "to my mind no ono can bo properly prop-erly easy or gracoful in them. , "I novor feel that I properly know .a man until I havo met him wearing an j old suit. Certainly no man can posst-bly posst-bly bo his natural self in evening , dress. "I havo noticed again and again how different' tho sarao pcoplo aro ' when wearing different clothes. I went, for Instance to a largo family gathering somo tlmo ago, and for somo reason ovorybody had donned ' 1 full evening dress. What a differ-enco differ-enco It made! Wo woro all on tonus of Intlmnto friendship, but somehow tho clothes brought In an oloment of coldness nnd formality. Wo all felt It even tho women, although, of courso, tho fair box aro not easily pur-suaded pur-suaded of tho morlts of well-worn garments. gar-ments. Hut no man who has discovered discov-ered tho caso and comfort of them will readily glvo them up. As for tho i artistic sldo of modern clothos, It only comes when they havo moltowcd by usol" |