The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-19
LOST HER GARTER.
SAD PREDIG4MENT OF A BELLE
IN Il ballroom.
Her Stocking Went Toe A the Cards
in suits-goarded Fever Germs-The
Botanical Press.

Her Stocking Went Too AL the Cards
in Suits-goarded Fever Germs-The
Botanical Press.
Not many hours ago / was watching
atall, thin, solemn-visaged young man
Waiting with a plump, short girl.
Her nose was a pug, and no wonder, If
hat was her usual attitude in waltz
ing, fori was flattened on his shoulder.
They were circling like automaton
fixtures almost run down-so slowly,
inertly. But, OH wasn't she getting
huggedl l felt like putting a screen
around them and letting the embrace
take its natural course, it seemed such
a pity that they shouldn't be permit
ted to stand quite still. Next L
watched a pair whose demonstratlve
antics were still more absurd. They
whirled like dervishes; they raced like
hundred-yard sprinters; they kicked
up ahind and afore like the yaller gal
of the song, and all the while they
were embodied in a wild, tumultuous
hug. ButEthe sight that got all gazes
was that of the prettiest and most
graceful girl in the room. She
danced like a fairy, but was plumper
than fairies are generally redresented
to be, and the glimpses of her tiny
feet, as they fiicked and pointed be
You'd the boundaries of her tumultuous
skirt, were supplemented by flashes OF
ankles that were like segments with
the small ends downward. Now, a
girl built like that must use stocking
supporters that reach from the tips OF
her hosiery to her waist. Carriers are
not feasible. She must place her CON
tidence in supporters. All, me! in this
ease that faith was betrayed. The
strap broke away from n stocking.
The first we knew off t was when we
saw the silken hosiery crinkled IN a
mass around her ankle. She wasn't
aware of the disaster. Her head was
literally and metaphorically being
turned by a waltz with a milionalre's
son, and she had no consciousness of
her nimble heels. We ought to have
promptly rescued her, but we were
just paralyized. She danced away,
with every spectator gazing in rapt
fascination on the escaped stocking.
1t was baby blue with a crocheting
of gold. Now, | have already said hat
the foot was small, and have intimated
that the rest of the stocking was big,
so the leg of the knitted silk slowly
fell on the slippered foot and then
dragged on the floor. AS the couple
circled in the rapid waltz that length
of stocking was trod upon by the
man. 1t wound quickly around his
leg and came to a tension. With
bated breath and starting eyeballs we
saw the elastic material stretch to its
utmost. Would the girl be thrown?
No. Worse than that. The reversed
stocking stripped itself and the slip
per off her foot. That bare little
member, white and shapely, took
several more waltz steps in full view
before its owner realized her pedal
nudity. Then a dozen of us girls
rushed to save her. We gathered
around her, shut her out from mascu-
line gaze and escorted from the room.
"Are you hurt?" she was asked.
"Not a bit, " she replied; ''but if my
toe-nails hadn't been pedicured only
today I'm sure it would have killed
me dead. n-Clora Belle, IN the Cinct1a-
natl Ep0atigeT.