WHA T WE LOSE AND WHA T WE GAIN. 20$ 



in tatters, and vast sums are paid for bits of 

 Persian carpets about to fall in pieces. Does 

 not every one know that should the Prince of 

 Wales appear in public with a shabby coat and 

 a patch upon both knees, that patches would 

 appear upon every fashionable knee, and that 

 unpatched trousers would be viewed with sus- 

 picion ? There are no end of stories which 

 illustrate how strongly the traits of our simian 

 ancestors are marked in us. Some years ago 

 the Prince of Wales could not find the over- 

 coat he wanted when about to leave for the 

 opera one evening, and picked up a rough 

 shooting-jacket he had brought from the High- 

 lands ; result : ulsters appeared all over the 

 world. More recently, the same leader of fash- 

 ion dropped one glove in the street and put 

 on another of a different color; result : people 

 begin to wear gloves that do not match. The 

 Prince of Wales is growing bald ; result : the 

 sale of magic hair-growers has fallen off by two 

 thirds in the United Kingdom. The traces of 

 the monkey are to be seen all around us. Not 

 one man in a thousand knows that the two 

 buttons to be found upon the backs of most 

 coats date from the time when men needed 



