Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-30
HOSIERY IN ALL AGES,
Stockings and Clvilixasion-Bare-l
 gea Lassies of Scotland and Ireland.

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 seA Lnssies ofscotland and Ireland.
 From the San Fraaciscs Chrsnicls,l
 It is decidedly interesting, if not entirely instructive, to look into the history of stock ings. So far as civilization and civilized us- ages must be considered, the anterior history of this country is that of the land which fur nished the bulk of its colonists, and so 1t bs- comes a matter of pertinsnoe to America to learn that while the Scotch Highlandsrs, from the days of Agricola to the battle of Killicrankle, looked with scorn upon gar ments of any sort, at least in the heat of bat- tie, the southern or Belgio Britons were clad, like the Ganls, in cloth of fine wool. which included . covering for their limbs also. But the days of distinctive hose for the Highland or and South Briton were days of slow dsvsl- opment.
 In the time of Anslo-Saxons drawers reach- ing half way down the thigh and stockings meeting them were alluded to by Saxon writ CTS under tho name of breech and hose. In France the femoraha or drawers of Charle- magne were of linen. The monk of St. Gaul speaks of Tibialla vel coxalia Stockings or drawers) of linen of one color, but ornamented
 with precious workmanship. It Is evident frsm tho context that the writer meant long drawers, or hose and drawers In one, like the braea of Csasar's Gauls.
 In the days of the Norman and Plantagsnet Kings the costume for the neither extrsmities consisted of drawers, with long stockings or pantaloons with feet to them, called by the occurs in . wardrobe roll of King Johns time. Cloth stockings, embroided with gold, are among the articles of dress ordered by Henry IlI for his sister Isabel. In the reign of Henry I. the hose wore richly frsttsd with gold and varicusly colored silks.
 But Elizabeth was the arst English sover- ! eisn to wear genuine knitted stockings, and ' ha fosh hoa haAn {nAnouratad | the ladies went wild over It. It is sxpress- | ly stated in contemporary records that they | were mot ashamed to wear hose of all ! kinds of changeable colors, as green, red, ! white, russet, tawny, and else what not" | "common knit" too, and Cautiously in dented in every point with quirks, clocks, | open seams, and everything else according
 ly.
 It was Mrs. Montague who presented the Queen with the first pair of black knit silk stockings, which pleased her 30 much that she would not wear any oloth hose afterward. Soon after this, says Stow, William Rider,
 then apprentice to Thomas Burdet, seeing . pair of knit worsted stockings at an Italian merchants, brought from Aontua, borrowed
 them, and, having made Q pair like them,
 presented them to the Earl of Pembroke,
 the first worsted stockings knit in Eng Hand.
 ! In 1899 William Leo, master of arts and
 fellow of St. Johns College, Cambridge, in.
 vented stocking frame. Tradition attributea the origin of his invention to piqus he had
 taken against townswoman with whom he | was in love :, and who neglected his passion. ! She got her livelihood by knitting stockings ! and to depreciate her employment he oon- struoted this frame and instructed his broth.
 CT and other relatives how to work 1t. The
 other stocking makers combined and drove him from the country, 50 that at last he disc !: | at Paris of broken heart.
 In the reign of Anne, the yeats were lenght ensd to meet the stockings, and entirely con ceal the brooches, the stockings being O blue or scarlet silk, with gold or silver clocks ! Scarlet stockings were worn by fashions ble belles who also indulged in snuff tax . ing.
 Mrs. Damer, the eccentric and celebrated sculptor of the days of George H., is said t, 3 have been the first female who wore blaol Y | silk stockings in England. Ladies wore whit
 | stockings. even in mourning, as late as tn
 ! year 1878, and white stockings are worn b \ two-thirds of the English woman of all clas . es to-day, the cost of washing notwithstand !, ing.
 l The bare-limbed lassies of Scotland an Is Ireland have attracted the eye of every Ame :, loan tourist In the former case the custom V which prevails chiefly in the rural district, largely dictated by the practice prevaleI le among Scoth women of washing heavy art IA oles by treading them in @ tub with their fee and perhaps also for convenience of fordir II ! the burns or brooks in the mountainous sec at lions. As to the Irish "colleen," stookinl ,e have been deemed 8 superfuity for centul