Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-14

ings range from Sc so in plain color up
to $40. Add in this list the fancy, all !
silk articles, those hand-embroidered !
with all kinds of artistically-wrough
figures produced in open work, and
done to match tho costume, and the
price ranges from $40 to slOO. But put
the average down to So q pair-and you
can scarcely purchase an all-sill pair
for less-and the bill for the 400. 900
pairs is Sl,200,0Oo, which added to the !
half million dollars for the stockings
worn By the poorer classes amounts TO
81, zoe, 900. 1t would be no exaggera-
ton to say that it costs New York city
every year for socks and stockings for
her female population a round s. ,0O0.-
600 or enough to maintain nearly 5000
persons, whole city, for year in food.
Just few words about the stockings
worn by the multitude and the fashions
that prevail. The article of common
commerce is the cotton stocking. and II
is worn by children, schoolgirls and
women. It's price ranges from four or
five cents n pair up to dollar. For
less than a dollar, indeed. for thirty
cents, there are now in the market sew
erul brands, secured to the owners I'M
der patents, of guaranteed fast black"
and the same color up to the highest
price. Black is now the queen of fash
ion, and il is not alone so in cotton but
in Isle, wool, worstcd goods and silk.
Society girls and their mothers wear
black silk, black Isle or black fine
merino and other woods; actresses
and other women fond of display even
wear them. and the yellows. pinhs.
light blues, crimsons and other fancy
colors are relocated to second-rate bal
let dancers. and song and dance ac-
trcsses of the variety stage. Black was
long in disfnvor because the dye camc
off upon the leg and foot and was
supposed to be capable Of blood poison
ing. Girls who stood all day were apt
to find their feet swollen when the dye
camc out profusely, and tho doctors
have records Of numerous deaths re-
sulting from tho dye. Dread, not fash
lon. turned women to light fancy col
they are back again to black. nearly
three-quarters of million strong. in
the city Of New York alone
But the women are being cheated
every day by hundreds in buying for
isle thread stockings that have no Isle
In them. You cannot buy the genuine
article for less than 80 cents n pair. and
that is very inferior quality. and you
must go TO az least Q dollar To get o
sldllfully made that IL Is easy TO be de-
ceived; the best plan Is TO be guided by
the price and character of the store.
No reputable dealer viii sell the fic-
titious for the real To ap intelligent Gus
TONER. In wcolens, 50 called. there IL
half tina time not more than fourth or
q third of wool: and this too has largely
20 be determined By the price and the
reputability Of tho dealer. WOODEN"
stockings and socks sell from 10 cents
up 10 So: but II you buy for much less
Than dollar he sure you are getting
some cotton.
For those Interested In curious resuIts
I may add thst the stockings worn BY
Tho women of New YORK. il fastened To-
rether would make n row about 1000
miles long. q row lonr-r than the Al
lsntic cable To keep teese 2.ooo miles
Of stockings IN place II requires about
eco miles % rarters
The soo,ooo women and girls 1T the
metropolis ell wear garters and " IL not
an ovrrcstiEnase 81 allow t-o pair. each
70 them In thu year soore. 81 thor,-
sands n them wear topsy Tarters which
" nothing more than torn strip ~ ecs-
Nm er flannel. aud all those old l-ises
With snsique notions. especially II they
wsre born In the cysnsrv. tear the pink
seivsiEs ~ The flannel they buy fo~
winter r~stic<sats AMI ether winter gar
ueDta a srvst nnsny - then 40 oot
think that n is either lucky ~ rrop~r IN
wear any ether kioa of ss~r~ts shsn
tho.- srsasf~ frs,rs this sairerige
rsst this has3ly ae~sss she great gar
ser trade fese. wtirh 10 the lie a 20