BURDETTE'S NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3980, 30 September 1881, Page 2

BURDETTE'S NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Don't judge a man by his clothes. Can you tell what the circus is going to belike by looking at the Italian sunsej; pictures on the fence.

Do you value a turkey for its plumage? And isn't the skin of the mink the most, and, indeed, the only valuable part of him P There be men, fair to look upon, who wander up and down this country, and. Bit in the coolest places on the hotel piazzas, who are arrayed in fine linens and cardinal socks, and who have to hold^their hand over their scarf pin when they want to see the moonlight, who, unassisted and unprompted, do not possess the discretion to come in when it rains, and don't know enough to punch a hole in the snow with an umbrella—new, soft snow that, without any crust on it. - ■ Now and then, son, before you are as old as Methuselah, you will meet a man who wears a hat that is worth twice as much as the head it covers. On the other hand, don't fall into the error of believing that all the goodness and honesty and intelligence in the world goes about in shreds and patches. .. . , We have seen a tramp Pressed in more rags than you could rake out of the family . ragbag, and more dirt aid hair on him than would suffice to protect a horse, who would step up to the front d#or and demand three kinds of cake,, half a pie, and then steal every morable thing in the yard, kill the dog, choke up the pump with sand, tramp on the pansy bed, and girdle""^ the cherry trees because he couldn't carry them away. Good clothes or bad are never an infallible index to the man that is in them. ' . ' ' '