The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-10
ABsEnr-M1npEp WOMEN.
stories Told by C%huckling Chicago Hua
bands About Their Better Halves.

Stories TOLD by ChuCk11u8 Cn1CdY0 Au6-
From tho Chicago News.
Speaking of absent-minded people"
said a west slider, women beat the ma
ton at that. There is my wife, n OF
the most careful and most 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 we'll. My
wife was greatly concerned about me,
as / am the absent-minded member
of the family, and looked me
over critically and carefully after
L left the coat 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 q delightful half hour on parade
duty, as it were, when my wife sudden
ly turned pale in what l thought was a
~fainting fit. 1 hurried her from the
room, and was about to turn the house
upside down III search Of restoratives
when she clutched nv sleeve and point
ed to her feet. She had before leaving
home drawn over her shoes o pair of my
socks, and had forgotten to remove
them. The thought that she had been
parading before three hundred people
her"
A South Slider, who had listened to
this, said, after indulging in a contented
couckle: ''My wife tells almost as good a
story as that on herself. She is, as every
body knows who knows her at all, very
particular about her dress, and she
grieves over o spot on my coat or a 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 be-
came a 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 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 p%arading 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"
II have a better story than that"
said a superintendent of one of the de-
partments at Fields. Not long ago u
~faslionably dressed lady came in early,
and in the course of her b%argening put
her p~arasol on the counter near a large
feather buster 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 overtake her until she had
made quite q journey.
"in fact she fourished that feather
buster along the street, fourishing 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
p~arasol in. She was indignant at such
an intimation, and was delivering the
clerk a sharp lecture on the subject
when in walked our boy with her para
sol and explanation. She was so over
come that she had to be sent home in a
carriage"