Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-20
Pretty Hosiery.

soul SO delight as in pretty hosiery.
"Gloves and stockings are my weak
ness, " frankly confesses one of the most
exquisite of women. Il will get on with
three gowns a year, but I must have
well-ftting gloves and pretty stock
ings."
And so she has. Nothing comes in
the way IF dainty novelty in this line
that she does not add to her already
generous store. In her enthusiasm she
might almost be classed as a collector
of this special line of womanly adorn-
ment. She is only one of class, al
though she may be little extreme.
"It costs me more, in proportion, for
my boots, stockings, and gloves that it
does for the larger articles of my ward
robe," said a working girl the other
day. II can scrimp in some things, but
not in these"
How Mortified well-dressed woman
would have felt quarter of century
ago had it been proposed to her that
she should wear colored stocking.
She would have considered that not
only her good taste but her ideas of
cleanliness had been outraged. Moth
ing was admissible but pure white
stocking, one on which not even speck
of dust could be seen. Fine and i'm
maculate and sunny white, this was
what the swinging skirt must show if,
inadvertently, the ankle was exposed to
view.
The first innovation came with the
cream-tinted balbriggans, finished so
finely that the surface had sillen
look. These held their own for long
time. Then came Introductory stripes
of color on the cream white, these
stripes being very narrow, hardly more
than hair line, while the white stripe
was very broad. By degrees the stripes
widened and the color deepened, until,
almost before the women were aware Of
it, they were wearing stockings Of q
solid color and admiring them, too, i'm
mensely.
Pale blue, pale rose, and a soft
French gray We're the first innovations;
then came scarlet, navy blue, and seal
brown, and BY and by all these colors
deerened into black, which took the
place as the proper color for every day
wear. Now the black stockings seem
to have firm hold upon the affections
OF the wearers, as white had few years
ago. It is the exception when woman
is seen in anything but black stocking
in the street or at home in the morning.
4 Laugh TILT COST FIVE Hun
DRED DOLLARS.
His daughter was going to Europe.
He is very rich man, but a millionaire
will always make up telegraphic code
to save money. It would be nothing to
him if she sent hundred words, but he
will always get as much as he can for
nothing anyway, and he will have a
telegraphic code. I don't know, though.
Perhaps he thought she might take as
many words to say thing by telegraph
as ladies ordinarily do in conversation,
and that would bankrupt millionaire.
Let us acquit him of economy. Let us
say that by combining her to one word
he would understand what she tele-
graphed, whereas if he left her to ex
press it in her own way he might never
have found out what she meant. He
left her to make out the code. She
made out one quite to the point on all
important matters. She selected the
words herself, wrote it all out and
handed it to him when she left. He
locked it in his desk, and it was all right.
Last week he got telegram from her.
1t consisted of one word" Laugh. :"
He laughed. 1t seemed to be some
thing quite pleasant. His code was at
the house. He went up there in the
best Of humor. He got out the code
and read: "Laugh-Send me $780,
Sam Francisco Chronicle.