The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1882-04-20
Silk Quilts and Neckties.

came TO bis once one morning tnls
week with collar on but no necktie.
He looked sad and disgusted, and an
associate called attention to the in
completeness of his attire and asked
him if he had forgotten his necktie.
Forgot ii? Not much, said the
man, as he looked in the glass at |
himself and scowled. NO, the facr
is, / have not got neclStie to my
name. The women up to the house
are making a silk quilt, and every
piece Of silk that has any color in it
is stolen. Yes, sir, stolen | have
missed six neckties, and before they
took them all they used to cut off
the ends every morning. They
piece the scraps together IN all sorts
ot shapes, and make very pretty
quilt, but bless you, it would be
cheaper to buy silk new. These
women can use up a dollar and a
I half necktie in fifteen minutes |
don't know as you would believe it
j but / went to a reception one night
last week, and handsome woman
rallied around me, and wouldn't let
any other woman hardly look at me,
Several Of them tried to get in q
word edgewise, but this female
would lead me off and talk sweet to
me. Several times ] caught her
looking at me in rapt admiration,
and I thought she was the worst
mashed female that ever was Fin
ally she led me to a conservatory
and getting behind an oleander she
said she wanted me to do her q favor,
and she looked SO sweet and good
that / said all right. 90 ahead. Then
she said she didn't know as she
oughtto ask It Of a married man
: but there were times when ones
home did not contain all that Was
necessary for that complete happi
ness that we all hoped for. Do yol
know, I was so scared that | nearly
, tainted I finally, after looking VI
and down the conservatory, asket
: her what it was that she wanted Q
me, and promised TO grant her re
quest fit was anything that was no
wrong She looked cunning, poute'
alittlc, turned her head one side, shyi.
looked up intomy eye you know
have only one ~ and asked me
I wouldn't give her my lavende
4 & necktie to piece into a silk quilt.
at felt as though I should sink, but j
we left the house ! took it off an
gave it to her, and told my wife
must have lost it, my wife was ma
because she had been laying for Il
necktie herself. Nearly every ms
n at that reception lost his neclzti
D And shirtsl 4 silk undershirt is III
safe unless it is locked mp in a bur
lar proof safe This thing is goiI
.. to be carried too far A man IS II
sure that he has anything to put
when he gets up in the mornir
The women have all gone crazy
silk quilts. The other day | we
? home and found six women helpi
to rummage through the bure
: draws. They were cutting up I
wedding vest and dividing it |
III, No, sir, what this country wants
for every newspaper TO publish
ticles showing that silk quilts j
M. unhealthy, and that they will hrt
diseases, and to cause women
grow old permaturely, In that's {
salvation By the way, that is
fine necktie YOU have on, and it
E.. too long. Itlauns under youl. V
for six inches. Let me cut off
piece Of it and take it home TO ]
wife. It would tickle her nearly
death. And the neektieless Ii
IN got his scissors and was going
II, eet in his work, when bis associ