The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28
ABSENT MINDED womrr
Stories Fold by Chuckling Chicauo ~.
bands About Their Better Halves.
From the Chicapo News

Stories Told by C%huckling Chicago Eus.
bands About Their Better Halves. A
From the Chicago News.
Speaking of abssnt-minded people i
said a west slider, women beat the IA.
ton at that. There is my wife, enc 81
the most careful and most le~vel-healAa
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. NV
wife was greatly concerned about me
as [ am the absent minded member
of the family, and looked me
over critically and carefully after
/ 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 q delightful half hour on parade
duty, as it were, when ray wife sudden
ly turned pale in what | thought was .
fainting fit. / 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.
ed to her feet. She had before leaving
home drawn over her shoes 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 &c
this, said, after indulging in a contented
couckle: my wife tells almost as good
story as that on herself. Shei 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 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 Owe the fact
that none of the Jew 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 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 o
week"
"I have a better story than tbst,'
said a superintendent of one of tine de-
partments at Fields. Not lcsg ago a
fashionably dressed lady came in early,
and in the course of her bargening put
her parasol 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 "er 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 a journey.
"In fact she fourished that feather
buster along the street, fiourishing 1t
about as she went into another store,
and put it down on the counter, still
under the impression that it was Q
parasol, and seeing the feather buster
asked for her paraso1. The clerk ex-
planned that she had not brought any
parasol in. She was indignant at such
an intimation, and was delivering the
clerk q 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 q
carriage"