Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-03
BsENT-nrTMDED WOMEN.
Stories Told by Chuckling Chicago Illus
bands Abont Their Better HALVES.
From the fIni Na,x-z

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Stories Told by Chuckling Chicago aus-
bands Abont Their Better HALVES.
From the Chicago News.
"Speaking of absent minded people, !"
said west slider, women beat the na~
ton at that. There is my wife, one OF
the most careful and most level-headed
women in the world But one night
last winter we went to large party,
and we both, for special reasons, were
more than anxious to appear we'll. My
wife was greatly concerned about me,
as I am the absent minded member
Of the family, and looked ME
over critically and carefully after
left the coat room and before we went
! down stairs. She was herself I'll right,
! Of course and was superbly dressed.
We went down in high feather and had
passed through the parlors and had
spent delightful half hour on parade
duty, as it were, when my wife sudden
~ turned pale in what thought was q
fainting fit. { hurried her from the
room, and was about to tnrn the house
upside down IL search of restoratiyes
, when she clutchel nv sleeve ard point
ed to her feet. She had before leaving
home drawn over her shoes q pair O. my
socks, md had forgotten to remove
them. The Thought that she had been
! parading before three hundred people
with those socks on was too much for
her"
j A South Slider, who had listened 10
; this, SAID, after indu]ging in a contentrd
couckle; my wife tells almost as good a
story as that on herself. She is ,as every
: body knows who knows ller at all, very
particular about hor dress, and she
grieves over a spot on M coat or ii lack
Of polish on my shoes with grief that
, will not be comforteA. She went down
street shopping on one occasion this
! spring, and in trying IL bonnets be-
came little disturbed over the tlct
! that mono Of the new shapes suited Der
face. She, therefore picked up her
! parasol, walked out Of the store, called
on very aristocratic acquaintance. an
! then came home. a glance il the hall
glass showed that she had no bonnet
on. She had taken it off to try on tho
! new ones, and, as she expressed it, ha,5
been parading along the streets web
nothing on her head but q small Will
across her torch Dad She didn't sco'.
me about the spots on my coat for q
week."
2! II have better story than that,
said a superintendent Of one If The de
] partments at Fields Not long ago i
fashionably dressed lady came in ef"Iv,
and in the course Of her bary9ninC lHt
her parasol on tile counter near large
feather buster which one Of the cler!:
had been using. After making some
purchases the lady caue ht l1o the dns-
ter instead Of her parasol, and went ont
AS soon as discovered the mistake
sent y boy after her with the parnsol, hut
be did not overtake her until she ha0
made quite a journey.
'In fact she hourisheu that feather
buster along the street, hourisling il
about as she went mo another store
and put it down on the counter, still
under the impression that it was {
parasol, and seeing the feather dustel
asked for her parasol. The clerk ex
planned that she had not brought any
parasol in She was indignant at sucl
an intimation, and was delivering the
clerk a sharp lecture on the subjec
when in walked our boy with her para
sol and explanation She was so over
come that she had to be sent home IN {
carriage"