Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-11-09
COVERING FOR CALVES.
An Essay ON Hosiery and How Famous Limb
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An Essay On hosiery ana nov faileus iaMus
are Adorned.
The newspaper talk about the bright
coiurs that skim the horizon of dainty
skirts on rainy days is ali nonsense. No
girl with pennyweight of common
sense will don pair of fancy hose to be
spiashed and dabbed with the hem of
much-lined gossamer. If she is caught
Grazing the optics of the wayfarer with
a pair of neat rubbers and blue hose,
they cost 20 cents, and if she was not
afraid of getting her legs poisoned she
would wear them for at least two con-
secutiye days.
For style in stockings there is no
place like the stage. Mary Anderson is
on the stocking question what biblio-
maniac is on books. She must have a
ton of stockings, all exquisitely embroid-
cred or checked with fine feather-stitch-
ing. They have been gathered from all
parts of the world, many being pur-
chased by her private customer. Those
for inter wear are heavy silk, hand
knit, or finer goods from the loom. lined
with white fleece.
The spindle limbs of Bernhardt bor-
row rotnndity from dull red, blocked
blue and dull pink fretted with gray.
She could not be induced to wear white,
as she says, ''They do not of themselves
impart any beauty, nor bring out what
there is.
Nine. Patti has the plumpest of legs
that hang over her trim little boots, alb
breviating herreally large feet, but finds
salvation in ebony stockings, that are
m ada for her nv a .yons firm
Materna is whimsical, and ugly rib
bed stockings are chosen.
Cary dotted on dull gray, brown and
set blue, picked out with bright silks
and gold thread. For full dress, on or
off the stage. and also for tights. flesh
color was always selected.
Kellogg rigs up with genteel taste for
the stage, but her private goods are
cut with frieze and dado, making three
colors of her shapely limbs; enough to
set the straightest eyes on the bias. She
has weakness for corn color and her
black. red, blue and maroon hose are
embroidered just above the shoe top and
half way to the knee with borders of
yellow daisies, corn flowers or vines,
hung with tinsel berries. All these ex-
tras are done by her mother.
Miss Winant leans toward blue and
Carreno chocolate, with satin carriers of
blue Emma Thursbv laces her boots
over polka dots, and Emma Abbott Sc
lects latitudinal stripes in fine Isle
thread. Sara Jewett has tact, and
knows the efficacy of a cardinal.
If there is d lady on the American
stage who know show to pick upideas and
reproduce them in fine imported hosiery
that genius is Lenora Bradley. She
has tiny, shapely feet and beautiful
! limbs. The very finest English goods
are selected and elaborated with silk
embroidery. Colors are copied from
natural flowers and laid on delicately-
tinted grounds with exquisite effect.
The marvellous thing about this work IS
the fact that it is all done on the cars to
kill time.
Minnie Palmer is young, but she
knows all about shoes and stockings.
She has an indivualty that most actress
es lack Her love for still life extends
to her silk and Isle thread novelties, all
of which serve as a background for
nice, ripe cherries, berries, nuts and
small fruit.
If Margaret Mather knew about the
magnifying influence of angles, bars,
borders and blocks, she would seorn
black, plain blue, lemon and white.
She has little feet, that are always pref
tily shod, and nothing in the stock is
considered too expensive, providing it
wins her admiration.
Aimee takes the bun on general prin-
ciples. She is never without new shoes
The squeak of new leather is sweeter to
her ear than is her own squeaking to the
auditory nerves of her friends. A pain
of red silk tassels always dangle from
her boot tops, and myrtle green
stocking, always worn in commemora-
ton of a Spanish lover who presented
his heart and box of the above novel
ties at the same time. He turned out
to be perfidious wretch, and although
she ground his heart with her foot never
changed the stocking.
1t is said that much of the graceful
kicking of Lolita is due to the happy
effects produced by the broken lines and
curves of her hose, some Of which cost
so pair.