The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-27
one or WoNAElg DEE!cIENCIEs.

DinieGItiss She Meets ia Making i Eow
Knot with s,riBE Tie.
New York sun: Say, June Bride
groom" said Mr.. Tin Wedding, rudgIng
his friend in the ribs as they seated
themselves on the ferryboat, does
your wife wear string tles?" .....,.,
ayes she does" replied Mr. June
BRIDEGROOM enthusiastically, "and my
wife has the most exquisite taste in
ties. Why. / let her select all OF
mine"
well. June Bridegroom" interrupt
ed Mr.. Tin Wedding. take II mans ad.
vice who is old before his time and
never watch your wife attempt TO tie
q string tie II you don't want to start
out to business early in the morning
thoroughly 'het up as some OF the good
old New England housewives say"
II don't understand 1t at al" half
unused June Bridegroom in puzzled
tone, and every man within hearing
distance who had the look of being u
long time married smiled
wait until you've been married as
long as have, or even half as long"
replied Mr.. Tin Wedding. ITS a very
strange thing. June Bridegroom, but
not one woman out OF q hundred ever
acquires the knack OF tying bow knot,
and yet they all persist In wearing
string ties. Haven't you ever grown
weary and worn watching your Wife
struggle with her tie? Now, my wife Is
q very clever woman, an exceedingly
clever woman about everything else,
but she Is positively idiotlc when It
comes to tying bow knot. Every
night regularly she gets me to show
her how: and then she takes my face
between her two hands, kisses me, and
says In her sweet, childllke way: I've
got II now. dearle Just watch me In
the morning / do, only to see her
tumble and fuss and fool around. finally
10 get her tie made into one OF those
upslde-down. wrong-slde-up affairs
that you see at every woman's neck in
shirt waist time.
TITS queer thing to me. June Bride
groom. but there is something lacking
about the feminine mind when II comes
TO learning how to tie bow knot. In
addition to demonstrating for my wife
every night how II should he done !
gay to her every morning when she be-
guns AlMh9b lul Allt hRRtl hhillE
over the under and never the reverse.
There's the whole thing In nutshell
What does she do2 Why. she does the
reverse. and so docs every other wo-
man. II you would only do as / say
30 on, and then bring this same up
per string through the middle loop, be-
fore pulling II smartly into place. you
would make the uniooBabie knot, which
lH necessary In shoe laces. for instance
But, by I0ve, she goes right on and does
the whole thing wrong, and l get so
warm watching her that / never get
cooled on until get TO town and have
q mint julep."
"Dld Il ever occur TO you. Mr.. Tin
Wedding" suggested June Bridegroom.
'that Instead Of showing your wife how
10 tie her tie properly at night. It would
be a great saving OF your nerve force
to tie Il for her In the morning7"
Young man." aald Mr. Tin Wedding
severely, as the gong sounded and they
rushed to the front Of the boat. you IRE
very recently married. Anybody could
tell H. Why, II did that / wouldn't
get that grateful kiss NJ night for
showing her how. Really, don't sup
pose II makos any difference whether a
woman's tic lB tied properly or not"