in the arrangement of clothes in a
room will make it an easy matter when about to travel to pack one's
wardrobe in a trunk.

A shoe bag is a great convenience. A simple canvas arrangement can be
purchased very cheaply, or one of your fair friends can make you one.
Your shoes should be placed in this and put at the bottom of the trunk
in a corner. Otherwise you should wrap your shoes and boots in paper. If
you travel with two trunks, one should be reserved for your outer
garments and the other for your shirts and underclothes. With one trunk,
a shirt box is as much an article to be desired as a shoe bag, but in
lieu of this the shirts should be placed in the first or top tray, the
underclothes and hose in the second, and the outer garments in the
bottom. A small space in the top can be reserved for your ties and
handkerchiefs. Toilet articles are carried in a hand bag; waterproofs,
overcoats, and umbrellas and walking sticks in a shawl strap. Your silk
hat has but one place, and that is in a hatbox. You can put a Derby in a
corner of a trunk but a silk hat would be ruined.

When a long journey is taken, it is economy in the end to purchase an
extra steamer trunk for your underclothes and linen. Trunks are not
expensive, and you will find that by not crowding your clothes you will
save in the long run.

Always keep in your room a small bottle of a good grease-remover as well
as one of ammonia, some soft rags, and a chamois for general cleaning
purposes. An expenditure of a little over a quarter of a dollar will
provide you with these necessaries.

Never lounge around your room in your street or evening dress. If you
are to stay awhile, or if you come in for the night, take off your
clothes and put on a bath robe or your pyjamas if you do not possess a
dressing gown, which is not a necessity.

At your office you should always have an old coat to wear, and if it be
summer have one of linen. To sit around in one's shirt sleeves, even at
one's place of business, is not characteristic of the gentleman.

THE COST OF CLOTHES.

Every young man starting in life and wishing naturally to take a part in
social functions and to become a member of that body indefinitely known
as society, is confronted with the problem of clothes. A few years ago
the ordinary changes of morning, afternoon, and evening were all that
were requisite, but to-day, with special costumes for various sports and
pastimes, the outlook at first glance t