on YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY Corbin’s Corner. THE SENTIMENT FOR FLANNELS. What a tailor says may be worth listening to if he tells what he sees. His own idea of what is good style or what is to be in vogue in a coming season, is worth absolutely nothing, unless based — on his observation of what is being worn, or is about to be worn, by men whose usage rightly makes style. This actual usage he must see and foresee. Then he knows how to act. Then his stock is what his advanced and particu- lar customers are- satisfied with. I always try to regulate my purchases on this plan, and in so far as I succeed | find that my Yale custom, which comes from the campus and all the rest of the country, responds most generously. I can’t always strike it right. I wouldn’t have to be in business long if I could. The foreign woolen men said I was crazy when | put in my orders for flannels for this spring and summer. My stock was really very large when the season opened and | didn’t enjoy the anticipation of the bills. Now I wish I had put in twice the orders all along the line. I saw that the short trousers and the white ducks were to be worn much less this year for all purposes—-golf, tennis, bicy- cle, lounging—but no one could foresee the extent of the demand for flannels for trousers and for summer suits. In this corner I am going to tell from week to week, sometimes in short space sometimes in long, what seems of inter- est as to clothes for men who want pretty good clothes. The flannel popu- larity is the only thing I will speak of this week. It’s a point that grows more interesting every day as the stocks on this side of the water are depleted. F. A. Corbin, 1000 Chapel Street. (as* My Day IN NEW YorK is Thursday. - Place, Astor House. Time, 12 to 4. _ *= “There's a town I tyes ; A Yo i be Op gra Ul ae, Wwe =strike when I’m ASE LY on the road where ALY YRS ; V7 Ni es there is a most V\\ ey <— unique collection of WA stories: unpublished, iii Ween. unbound, yet inde- NV .| structible and most 7;} carefully — preserved. 4 ~- The genius who is — making the collection is using an Edison Phonograph. He does business in Louisville, (what street I won’t say) and whenever a drummer shoots a good story at him # he says, ‘Hold up—- come here,’ and then and there, on the Up spot,heembalms Mr. Drum- 7) merin wax; andlikeaflyin ‘| RON\ Ve amber, hisfunnytaleispre- | MU. t V served for all time. Some of the mildest of them, re- vised and expurgated, are often heard in vaudeville; but forthe most part the ‘Louis- ville records’ are to be heard only by the favored few who areinthe ring. Ihave lately heard of other collections, but none to equal that of the pioneer, Mr, Blank.” THE EDISON STANDARD PHONOGRAPH, $20 COMPLETE, ALL DEALERS SELL THEM hen you write for latest catalogue No, 24 ask also for our entertaining little book of Phonograph short stories, “What Mr. Openeer Heard.” NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO0., 26th St. & Broadway, N.Y NONE GENUINE a Y ( y i), Us | es