New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-09-24
Absent.Minded Women.

s.But speaking of absent minded
people," said West Slider, s.women
beat the nation 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 well.
My wife was greatly concerned about
me, as am the absent-minded MEM
Der Of the family, and looked mo over
critically and carefully after left the
coat-room and before we went down
stairs. She was herself, all 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 I thought was
fainting fit. l hurried her from the
room, and was about to turn the house
upside down in search of restoratives,
when she clutched my sleeve and
pointed to her feet. She had before
leaving home drawn over her shoes
pair of my socks, and had forgotten to
remove them. The thought that she
had been parading before three hum
dred people with those socks on was
too much for her.
A South Slider who had listened to
this said, after indulging in q contented
little.chuckle: ..My wife tells almost
as good story as that on herself. She
is, as everybody knows who knows her
at all, very particular about her dress,
and she grieves over a spot on my coat
or a lack of polish on my shoes with q
grief that will not be comforted. She
went down street shopping on one oc-
casion this spring, and in trying on bon
nets became little disturbed over the
fact that none of the new shapes suited
her face. She therefore picked up her
parasol, walked out Of the store,
called on very aristocratic acquaint-
ance, and then came home. A glance
in the hall glass showed that she had
no bonnet on. She had taken it off to
try on the new ones, and as she ex-
pressed it, had been parading along the
streets with nothing on her head but
small veil across her forehead. She
didn't scold me about the spots on my
coat for week"
81 have better story than that, !"
said a superintendent of one of the de-
parments at Fields. .'NOt long ago
fashionably dressed lady came in early.
and in the course of her bargaining
put her parasol on the counter near q
large feather buster which one of the
clerks had been using. After making
some purchases the lady caught up the
duster instead of her paraso1, and went
out hurriedly. AS soon as discovered
the mistake sent a boy after her with
the parasol, but he did not overtake
her until she had made quite
journey"
.'In fact, she flourished that feather
duster along the street, fourished it
about as she went into another store,
and put IL down on the counter, still
under the impression that it was par
asol. When her purchases in the sec
0nd store were made, she turned to
pick up her parasol, and seeing the
feather buster, asked for her parasol.
The clerk explained that she had not
brought any parasol in, but had come
in carrying that duster. She was SUI
premely indignant at such an intima-
ton, and was delivering the clerk
sharp lecture on the subject when in
came our boy with her parasol and an
explanation. She was SO overcome
that she had to be sent home in car
riage. - CHICAGO Tribune.