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Show AN HAS NO RIGHT TO SCOFF Jot so Many Yeara Ago He Was Crazy Over Dress Himself, No, brother, men havo not always been so Indifferent to dress as they aro today. Their raiment, as compared com-pared with the darnfoollshness' of woman, hasn't always been above reproach. re-proach. Consider, If you will, the days when our respected forefathers would draw on their lavender-colored pants with a shoe horn, using a little slippery powder, maybe, to help things along, until people looked at their feet and wondered If the panta hadn't been sewed up aftor the feot got through Consider their tight bootB made so tight that they caused the most excruciating ex-cruciating agony. And remember thai the dandlos of that day would carefully care-fully polish theso burning, blazing, pinching, agonizing boots and thon step carefully with tho toes in a mud puddle bo that tho mud drying on tho lower part would niako the feot seem small. O, yes, they did It. And of courso you know that a bootjack wasn't used merely becauso the boots might soil the hands, but because nobody no-body had Invontcd a stump-puller in thoso days and applied It to tho removal re-moval of tight boots And remember tho bell-crowned bats, and tho dingbats and Jimcrncks they hung on their wntch fobs. And tho fancy Waistcoats and the frilled shirts. And going oven further back, con slder what historical drawings give us of Information as to ancient dress tho knoo breeches with gorgeous rosettes tho brilliant buckles on the shoes tho cream-colored cloaks with mauve satin linings. And the white silk stockings that tho excelsior would show through. Think of the bepowdered and becurled wigs when you rave at rats on women's heads and repent of your scoffing words. Face powder? Perfumes and scents? Sure they had 'em. Patches on their complexion yes, and rouge. They sure were pretty men those days. And going back to the Indian think of his war paint, of his gaudy blanket, his stained arrows, his painted paint-ed pony, his bear-oiled hair and his colored feathers. But what's the use? He's not so pretty now. Only ho really hadn't oughter scoff so much at hobblo skirts and peach-basket bats and Chinese hair switches and things. He really hadn't oughter. |