The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-08-22
W0MAN'S VANITY.
Go Bathing in the Finest of Silk
Stockings, and Wear Wooden
Ones at Home

in all members of the weaker sex,
more clearly than in the following
narrative, from a New York law
yer:
Don't, said the common sense,
hard hearted, practical minded law
yer, "try to tell me about the van
ity of women, | know all about it.
If ever had any doubts the ques-
ton was settled to my satisfaction
the other day. l had togo down to
my place on the New Jersey coast.
My sister and my wite's sister were
visiting us.
Fanny, I said to my wife, I
must run down to New Jersey to-
day. Would you and the girls like
to go with me2 think you would
enjoy it.
"They were delighted, so took
the three of them. My business
was quickly disposed of, and we
went for a walk on the beach, and
they insisted on going in the surf.
1t was a little bit of place with a
summer hotel, but we managed to
get bathing suits for them. Then
Joe, my sister, said something to
Cora, my wife's sister, and they
both said something to my wife.
They hadn't any bathing stock
ings.
81 was sent to find some. There
was only a little country store
there up the road, and | set out for
it. was little doubtful myself
about the stockings the proprietor
had. They weren't just the kind
/ had been paying for since | was
married, and I thought that those
fashionable girls would think | was
a poor Judge of women's hosiery,
but, though they were heavy things
rough and ribbed, they were stock
ings, and moreover, they were the
only ones I could get. So. | bought
them and marched back to the sea.
When | handed them over to the
girls a look of dismay spread over
their faces, and they held them out
gingerly, but they thanked me for
my trouble and went to their bath
houses, saying nothing to one
another.
IT was waiting outside for them
in the bathing suit which | had Sc
cured for myself, when the first OF
the girls came out. 1t was my sis
ter Joe, and | saw at a glance that
the stockings she had on were not
the stockings / had bought in the
country store. They were long
beautiful silk things that were
works of art.
"Well, my sister Joe always was
vain young woman, with a love OF
finery and luxurious things to wear,
so could in part understand her
folly.
"Next came my sister-in-law
Cora, adorned with an equally
beautiful pair of stockings, anc
right behind her my wife embellish-
ed in the same splendid way. They
looked at one another, and all burst
out laughing No one of them hat
been able to resist the temptation
to wear beautiful stockings as long
as they could be worn.
"The fun came in when they
were dressed and we were on oul
way home. Those big, coarse coun
try stockings hurt their feet terri
bly,. They had hardly been able tt
get their little boots on over them
and they pinched with an excruci
ating tightness. They limped ant
suffered, but, of course, smiled
sweetly. When we got home
thought saw an opportunity t
impress a lesson on my wife's min'
about the folly of vanity.
"I hope, Fanny ! said, with
grave display of Spartan simplicit.
chat you now realize that it woul'
have been much wiser if you girl
had worn the thick, wooden stock
ings in bathing, and had returned
home in your beautiful silkeI
hose.
"'Yes, dear, she said, meekly
you are quite right. 1t would hay
been much wiser, but, she added
with one of those mysterious smile
of women, if we girls found oui
selves there again tomorrow in tn
same situation we would do tn
same thing over again.
'And know they would. S
There you arel"