The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-23
Absent-Minded Women.
Chicago Tribune.

Chtedgo 1rt0Hne.
''But speaking of absent-minded peo-
ple," said West Slider, "women beat
the nation at that. There is my wife,
one of the most careful and level-headed
women in the world. But one night
last winter we went to a large party and
We both, for special reasons, were more
than anxious to appear well. My wife
p" AZ :, CsscIy CUnCClnCu ABOUT me, as
am the absent minded member of the
family, and looked me over critically
and carefully after l 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 feathers and passed through the
parlors and had spent delightful half
hour on parade duty rs it were, when
my wife suddenly turned pale in what l
thought was fainting fit. | hurried
her from the room, and was about to
turn the house upside down in search
of restorative,s 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 for
gotten to remove them. The thought
that she had been parading before 900
people with those socks on was too
much for herr
A South Slider who had listened to
this said, after indulging in content
ed little chuckle: "My wife tells al
most 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 spot on
my coat or lack of polish on my shoes
with a grief that will not be comforted,
She went down town shopping on one
occasion this spring, and in trying on
bonnets 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 the streets
with nothing on he head but a 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-
partments 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 large
feather duster which one of the clerks
had been using. After making some
purchases the lady caught up the duster
instead of her parasol, and went out
hurriedly. As soon as discovered the
mistake l sent the boy out after her
with the parasol, but he did not over
take her until she had made quite a
journey.
SIN fact, she fourished that feather
buster along the streets, fourished it
about as she went into another store,
and put it down on the counter, still
under the impression that it was par
asol. When her purchases in the Sec
ond store were made, she turned to pick
up her parasol, and seeing the feather
buster, asked for her parasol. The clerk
exclaimed that she had not brought any
parasol in, but had come in carrying
that buster. She was supremely indig-
nant at such an intimation, and was
delivering the clerk a sharp lecture on
,l,r- SItD1eTt when in came our bow with
her parasol and explanation. She was
so overcome that she had to be sent
home in a carriage"