LOST OF DRESS PARADE

LOST OF DRESS PARADE[1]

When in the evening Mr. Towers Chandler appeared in the streets of New York people took him for[2] a rich young man. He was handsome, well dressed and sure on himself. In a word,[3] he looked like a typical clubman going out to have a good time. No one knew that he was not rich. He was in fact quite poor.

Chandler was twenty-two years old. He worked in the office of an architect and got eighteen dollars a week. At the end of each week he put aside one dollar out of his salary. At the end of each ten weeks he ironed his evening suit and went out to have a good time. He usually dined at a fashionable restaurant where there was wine and music. It took him ten weeks[4] to accumulate his capital of ten dollars and it took him only a few hours to spend it, playing the role of a rich idler.