Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-04-30
LONG STOCKINGS DOOMED.
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While men have been grappling with the shirt waist question women have been quietly seeking emancipa- ton from long stocking The re- suit is that next season the extended sock, which will reach just below the knee. will probably be in vogue. Thus there will be 8 fair exchange the mans sock fot the >omap' $ shirt waist. Already the alert hosiers have planned the extended sock. This will be 19 inches long, and its ribbed top, exactly like that of the mans short sock, will, in cases more or less num- erous. obviate the necessity of wear ing garters, Many women last sum- mer who were not sufficiently courage ous to adopt the sock outright looped the long stocking in folds and gar. tered it just below the knee. While this gave a measure of coolness it was not artistic, and plainly is doomed to give way to the new extended sock
 An official report from Consul Mar shall Halstead at Birmingham to the state department has just brought to light the fact that American women find it impossible to buy desirable stockings in England The usual American stocking is 2S inches long, with small ankle and trim foot The English stocking is 24 inches long, with shapeless ankle and clumsy foot.
 Preferred Lash to Prison.
 Two young negroes who had stolen some clothing from a local merchant were convicted in Fulton, Mo, recent ly, and sentenced to four and six months re actively, in s..e county jail. Shortly the county attorney ask ed the boys in jocular way which they preferred, their jail sentences or twenty-five lashes on the bare back. Each promptly answered that he would take the whipping. No more was thought of it by the officials, how ever, until severa. days later, when a note from the prisoners reached the prosecuting attorney. telling him that they were roadr and anNioas to take e Whipping ;.-.d get theiI. Gu c @, and would promise to leave Fulton and never return. They were taken at their word. Cons table Garner, who weighs 21S pounds, was hunted up, and the negroes were taken to the sheriff's office, where the big constable laid the lash on their bare backs in the old fashioned way Every blow from the rawhide made the darkies groan with pain, but they gamely took the pun- ishment they had chosen and were given their release.-Kansas City Jour- nal.
 Erance a Loser In War Indemnities.
 Of nations engaged in wars of the nrst magnitud> France has been both a gainer and loser in the matter of indemnities. Having, by the treaty ot Presburg i'll ,s05, muleted Austria of $S, 900, 900 and 2sooo square miles of satisfy the allied powers by none tary compensation of $40, 900 900 and to suffer the partition of the greater part of her colonial possessions, as we'll as the severe contraction of her European boundaries. Again, in 1870, d enabled to display her marvellous fin. ancial resources by the speedy pay ment of the huge sum of $1 ,000 OO0, 900, in addition to the loss of 5,668 square miles of ter,itory.
 Casualties in London.
 It will surprise the majority to know that every ten years there are as many people killed in London streets as there have been on the British side during the Boer war. A single year 5 slaughter equals that of the battle Of Tel-el Kebir. On slippery, wet days, when crowds are in a hurry to trav- erse Ludgate circus or Piccadilly cir GUS or Trafalgar square or the space between the Mansion House, bank and Royal Exchange is almost as danger ous as a reconnaissance In force in
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