The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-07-16
ABsENr-MINDED WOMEN.

d "But speaking of absent minde
g people" said West Slider, "wome
It beat the nation at that. There
b my wife, one of the most careful an
|, most levelheaded women in th
: world. But one night last winte
e we went to large party and W
both, for special reasons, were NOR
than anxious to appear well. M,
: wife was greatly concerned abou
me, as l am the absentsmindeC
member of the family, and looked
me over critically and carefully after
1 left the coatsroom and before We
went down stairs. She was herself
all right, ofcourse, and was superbly
dressed. We went down 10 high
feather and had passed through the
parlors and had spent delightful
halt hour on parade duty as it were,
when my wife suddenly turned pale
in what l thought was fainting fit.
L hurried her from the room, and
was about to turn the house upside
down in search of frestoratives, when
she clutched my sleeve and pointed
to her feet. She had before leaving
home drawn over her shoes a pair
of my socks, and 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."
A South Slider who had listened
to this said after indulging in con-
tented little chuckle: "My wife
tells also as good a story as that on
herself. She is, as everybody knows
who knows her at all, very particu>
lar about her dress, and she grieves
ever spot on my coat or a lack of
polish on my shoes with grief that
will not be comtorted. She went
down street spopping on one occa-
sion this spring, and in trying on
bonnets became little disturbed |
over the fact that mono of the new |
shapes suited her face. She there
fore picked up her parasol, walked
cut of the store, called on very
aristocratic acquaintance, 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 expressed
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 a better story than that"
said superintendent of one of the
at Fields. "Not long
ago fashionable dressed lady came
in early, and in the course of her
bargaining put her parasol on the
counter near a large feather duster
which one of the clerks had been
using. After making some pur-
chases the lady caught up the duster
instead of her parasol, and went out
hurriedly. AS soon as discovered
the mistake sent a boy after her
with the parasol, but he did not over
lake her until she had made quite a
Journey.
ain fact, she fiourished that feath-
er duster along the street, flourish
I'd it about as she went into another
store, and put it down on the counter,
till under the impression that it was
/ parasol. When her purchases in
he second store were made, she
urned to pick up her parasol, and
eeing the feather duster, asked for
Ter parasol The clerk explained
hat she had not brought any para
ol in, but had come in carrying that
luster. She was supremely indig-
lant at such an intimation, and was
the clerk sharp lecture
N the subject when in came our boy
With her parasol and an explanation.
'he was so overcome that she had
o be sent home in carriage"