For those who are not congenial "joiners" and have not this fortunate outlet for their repressed desires, there should be some other way of expressing individuality. Evening clothes can alter their whole expression with the addition of a mere ribbon or a simple decoration. Suppose collars and cuffs should be varied in colour, or waists made long, if lace jabots were in, and high collars out, if silver lace replaced silk braid along the trousers' seam, or if giddy waistcoats were the thing—what a sensation is pathetic to see brave men and true so cramped by conventions that they suffer summer's heat and winter's cold rather than wear anything different. So many of life's tragedies never find their way into print. We shall probably never know how often a plain black necktie con-coals a hopeless passion for bright green. No, the Chinese men do things better, winter or summer, their clothes correspond to the temperature. It may be a little awkward to have to wait for a certain date on the calendar to assume grass-cloth or to take it off, but New York men are no less rigorously constrained with regard to straw hats, Some day a sartorial saviour may appear who will emancipate man from the bondage of his uninspired, inappropriate clothes, but in order to gain a following he will have -seeretly to enlist all the men of the town and have the revolution in apparel so stereotyped that within a few moments it will be accepted as standard, for men will never be the intrepid pioneers of style that women are—delectably daring women!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.