The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-11-02
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woMEN's VANITY ABOUT HOSIERY.
Three Go in Bathing in Silk Stockings
and Wear Wooden Ones Home.

"Don't," said the common-sense, hard
hearted, practical-minded lawyer. "try
to tell me anything about the vanity of
women. l know all about it. If l
ever had any doubts the question was
settled to my satisfaction the other day.
l had to go down to a place on the New
Jersey coast. My sister and my wife's
sister were visiting us.
A'Fanny,' said to my wife. I must
run down to New jersey today. Would
sou and the girls like to go with mep /
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 o walk
on the beach, and they insisted on GO
ing in the surf. 1t was a little bit OF q
place with u 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.
II was sen to find some. There was
only q 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, aud ( thought
that those fashionable girls would think
| 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 one I could get. So | bought
them and marched back to the sea.
When l handed them over to the girls a
look of dismay spread over their faces,
and they held them II 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 l had secured
for myself. when the first OF the girls
came out. 1t was my sister Joe and l
saw at a glance that the stockings she
had on were not the stockings l 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 q love of tinery
and of luxurious things to veal, so l
could in part understand her folly.
"Next came my sister-in-law. Cora,
adorned with an equally beautiful pair
Of stockings. and hight behind her my
wife embeIlished in the same splendid
way. The looked at one another md
all burst out laughing. Noone of them
had been able to resist tho temptation
to wear beautiful stockings as long US
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
hardy been able to get their little boots
on over them and they pinched with an
excrucisting tightness. They limped
and suffered. but, of course. smiled
sweetly. When we got home l thought
l saw an opportunity to impress u les
son on my wife's mind about the folly
of vanity.
81 hope, Fanny l said. with a grave
display of Spartan simplicity. that you
now realize that it would have been
wiser if you girls had worn the thick.
WOODEN stockings in bathing, and had
returned home in your beautiful silken
hose
"Yes. DEAR she said meekly, you
are quite right. 1t would have been
much wiser, but she added, with n
of those mysterious smiles Of
If we girls found ourselves there again
tomorrow in the same situation we
should do the same thing over again.
"Aud l know they would. So there
you are!"-M. Y. Tribune.