Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-23
ABsENT-OIINDED WOMEN.
Stories Told by Chuckling Chicago Hus-
bands About their Better Halves.
Chicago Meas.


speaking of absensminded people,"
SAID a West-sider, women beat the nation
at that. There is my wife, one of the
most careful and most leyel-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 anX-
ious to appear well. My wife was greatly
concerned about me, as l 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 feather, and had passed
through the parlOrs and had spent a de-
lghtful half hour on parade duty, as it
were, when my wife suddenly turned pale
in what thought was fainting fit. Thur
ried 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 hundred people
with those socks on was too much for her"
A South-sider, who bad listened to this,
said, after indulging in a cOntented little
chuckle: "My wife tells almost as good
story as that on herself. She is, as every
body knows who knows her at all, very
particular about her dress, and she
grieyes over a spot on my coat or lack of
polish on my shoes with a grief that will
not be cOmfOrted. She went down street
shopping on one occasion this spring. and
in trying on bonnets became little dis
turbed 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 a very ariStOcratic &C
quaintance 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 sceld me
about the spots on my coat for a week.
Il have better story than that" said
a superintendent of one of the depart
ments at Fields. ''NOt long a fashiona-
bly, dressed lady came in early, and in the
course of her bargaining put her parasol
on the counter near large feather buster
which one of the clerks had been using.
After making some purchases the lady
caught up the buster instead OF her para
sol. and went out. AS soon as l discOY-
cred the mistake / sent a boy after her
with the paras0l, but he did not overtake
her until she had made quite a journey.
''In fact, she flourished that feather
buster along the street, fiourished it about
as she went into another store, and put
it down on the counter, still under the
impression that it was parasol, and see
ing the feather buster, asked for her para
sol. The clerk explained that she had not
brought any parasol in, but had come in
carrying that buster. She was indignant
at such an intimati0n, and was deliver
ing the clerk a sharp lecture on the sub
ject when in came our 10y with her para
sol and an explanation. She was so
overcome that she had to be sent home in
a carriage.