The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-11-14
woMEN's VANITY ABOUT HOSIERY.
Three Go In Bathing in Silk Stockings
and Wear Woolen Ones Home.

Don't" said the ecommon-sense, hard
hearted, practical-minded lawyer, 'try
to tell me anything about the vanity of
women. l know all about it. If I
ever had any doubts the question was
settled to my satisfaction the other day.
l had to 90 down to place on the New
Jersey coast. Ny sister and my wife's
sister were visiting US.
~'Fanny,' said to my wife. 4 must
run down to New Jersey today. Would
you and the girls like to go with me? I
think you would enjoy it.
"They were delighted so I took the
three of them. My business was quick
ly disposed of, and we went for walk
on the beach, and they insisted on GO
ing in the surf. It was little bit of a
place with summer hotel, but we man
aged 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 stockings.
81 was sent to find some. There was
| only little country store there up the
road, and set out for it. Twas a little
doubtful myself about the stockings
which the proprietor had. They weren't
just the kind that l had been paying for
ever since I was married, and thought
that those fashionable girls would think
I was a pretty poor Judge of women's
hosiery; but, though they were heavy
things, rough and ribbed, they were
stockings, and. moreover, they were
the only ones / could get. So l bought
them and marched back to the sea.
When 1 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 moth
ing to one another.
Il was waiting outside for them in
the bathing suit which I had secured
for myself. when the first of the girls
came out. 1t was my sister Joe and I
saw at glance that the stockings she
had on were not the stockings I had
bought in the country store. They
were long, beautiful silk things that
were works of art.
"Well, my sister Joe always was a
vain young woman, with a love of fnery
and of luxurious things to wear, so I
could in part understand her folly.
Next came my sister-in-law, Cora,
adorned with an equally beautiful pair
of stockings, and right behind her my
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way. They looked at one another and
all burst out laughing. No one of them
had 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 our way home.
Those big, coarse country stockings
hurt their feet terribly. They had
hardly been able to get their little boots
on over them and they pinched with an
excruciating tightness. They limped
and suffered, but, of course. smiled
sweetly. When we got home thought
1 saw an opportunity to impress les
son on my wife's mind about the folly
of vanity.
".I hope, Fanny said, with grave
display OF Spartan simplicity, that you
now realize that it would have been
wiser if you girls had worn the thick,
woolen stockings in bathing, and had
returned home in your beautiful silken
hose
ayes, DEAR she said meekly, you
are quite right. 1t would have been
much wiser, but, she added, with one
of those mysterious smiles of women,
if we girls found ourselves there again
tomorrow in the same situation we
should do the same thing over again.
"And know they would. So there
you are!"-M Y. Tribune.