In order that new suits, new hats and new boots may mellow into those old friends which are so much better than new ones it is necessary that they be carefully chosen. Only the best of "men's wear" can achieve that elegance in old age, those wrinkles which lend interest instead of disfigurement, and can keep that indefinable something which will give distinction to and cause two looks at the mafoo who, in the neighbourhood of the Race Club stables, will be sporting the creations some.quarter of a century hence.
The time comes to most men of goodwill when duty to the community compels them to seek "men's wear" establishments and the tabernacles of tailors. To him whose day has come this autumn the point of view may be presented that the suitings from which he will make his choice will not only clothe him to ravishment but that his suit may be handed down an heirloom to his grandson—produced as it was in battling Britain, yet with every woof in position, not a warp out of place, and safely delivered to Shanghai 10,000 miles from the home looms.
With the fall in temperature the perfume of tobacco gains ever-increasingly in fragrance.
From nerveless fingers during long hot days the eigarettes-for-the-multitude have dropped one after the other to pit the parquet or set the waste paper basket on fire. But with the squared shoulders of autumn comes the Strength to settle something far superior into the firm jaw or press a really fine weed into the pipe bowl. In consequence great brains begin to function smoothly, problems are ironed out, the atmosphere generally is infinitely clearer. It's one good thing after another, in fact.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.