Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-10-23

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From the Chicago News.
Speaking Of abssnt-mjndad aso,,,a >
said q west slider, women beat the ma
s,0n a. that. There is my wife. one Of
The most careful and most Ievel.beaded
women in the world. But i pi.sbt
las, winter We went to a large party.
anu we both, for special reasons, were
more 'nan anxious to appear well. NV
"ne was greatly concerned about me.
Is 1 am the absent.minded member
q the family, and looked me
over critically and carefully after
ieit the coat room and before we went
ooWn stairs. She was herself all right
VI course and was superbly dressed.
We went down in high feather, and had
passed through the parIors and had
spent a delightful half hour on parade
aut,y, as 1t We're, when my wife sudden
y turned pale in what / thought was a
Laihting tit. | hurried her from the
room, and was about to turn the house
upside down III search Of restoratiyes
when she clutched my sleeve and point.
ell TO her feet. She had before leaving
nome drawn over her shoes a pair OF nv
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
tins, said, after indulging in a contented
couckle: MY wife tells almost as good a
story as that on herself. She is as eyery-
body knows who knows her at all. very
particular about her dress, and she
grleyes over a spot on my coat or a lack
Oh polish on my shoes with a grief that
VIII not be comforted. She went down
street shopping on one occasion this
spring, and in trying on bonnets be.
came q little disturbed over the fact
that none of the new shapes suited her
lace. She, therefore picked up her
parasol, walked out of the store, called
on a 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 a small veil
across her forehead. She didn't scold
me about the spots on my coat for a
week.
Il have q better story than that, I"
said q superintendent of one of the de.
partments at Fields. Not long @ a
fashionably dressed lady came in early.
and IN the course of her ~bargening put
her parasol on the counter near a large
feather duster which one of the clerks
had been using. After making some
purchases the lady caught up the dus-
ter instead of her parasol, and went out.
As soon as | discovered the mistake |
sent a boy after her with the parasol, but
he did not oyertake her until she had
made quite a journey.
I'm fact she fiourished that feather
buster along the street, flourishing it
about as she went into another store,
and put it down on the counter, still
under the impression that it was a
parasol, and seeing the feather buster
asked for her parasol. The clerk ex-
planned that she had not brought any
parasol in. She was indignant al such
an intimation, and was delivering the
clerk a sharp lecture ON the subject
when / n walked our boy with her para
sol and explanation. She was so over
come that she had to be sent home in a
carriage"