Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-01
Idle 7 thoughts

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| 1t is considered healthful to sus-
pend clothing from the hips any
way so perhaps it is just as wellthey
have gone out of style. In their
place it is now the proper caper to
wear suspenders. knew it would
come sooner or later. Women are
discarding the nice fluffy styles and
stealing everything they can from
us men. They've been wearing our
hats and collars and vests and
neckties for years and just recently
adopted ou1 socks and now it's our
suspenders. By and by we'll have
to adopt their buds or a bunch of us
will be as indistinguishable as
Chinese funeral or covey of
Indians on ration day. Out in
Montana recently posse of citizens
ran down a notorious bandit and
after he was dead they skinned
him and tanned his hide and made
it into souvenir suspenders. I trust
the fad will not strike east as I am
sure the ladies will all want a pair
made from my shellpink-skin-afte
they read this article. And why
not? The following item which I
concocted some years ago when
rattlesnake neckties for ladies first
came into vogue is evidence of this
fact: Think of a woman arrayed
with silk worm dress, seal skin
sacque, ostrich feather hat, goat
skin shoes, whale bone stays, kid
skin gloves, horse hide belt,
tortoise shell comb. fish scale trim
ming, stuffed canary birds, clam
shell buttons, spitz dog muff, mink
tail collarette, alligator hide purse
and now rattlesnake necktie!
Solomon in all his glory wasn't
such a menagerie.
X
The other night on the cars-or
in them rather-I saw lady who
had forgotten her suspenders. She
came into the car with her arms
full of bundles wearing one of these
little kneedeep petticoats that are
so popular now. That is she was
wearing the petticoat-it wasn't on
the bundles. They are designed to
hold fluffy dresses ont sort of grand
like and make a woman look
angelic. I never would have known
she had it but just as she stepped
into the car it dropped and lay like
a wreath. She started like she had
seen a mouse and looked like boy
after his first smoke. Then she
turned red and stepped gracefully
out of it. expected her to trip and
hand her bundles to fat man who
was snoring in the other end of the
car but she walked composedly to
her seat. In a little book on how
to be a gentleman-which school
mann gave me Christmas-it says
you should always hand things to
lady when she drops them but I was
scared to do 1t. Once when I worked
in a grocery that had leaky cash
drawer I found nickel when
sweeping. / took it to the boss and
! he said to keep it for my honesty.
Next week I found five dollar
gold piece and kept it for my
honesty without bothering him and
he fired me. ! was afraid if I
returned the petticoat the lady
would tell me to keep it for my
honesty. But took it to her and
she blushed so becomingly that I
got confused and asked her if I
should hold it while she gotI up on
the back of the seat and jumped
into it. She said that wasn't the
way and when asked her If she
put it on over her head she gave me
a whitening look and said she
always laid it down on the floor
and crawled through it and when
thick place came along it stuck.
got off at the next station.
Nv
In gathering facts for this article
| l asked little witch of a milliner
what was the latest in ladies hats
and she said heads but later told me
the Charlotte Corday. In historical
collection I saw an old but battered
coalbucket all guided over and kept
in a glass case. When new it
served as the bathtub of the infant
who later became the immortal
Andy Jackson. The Charlotte Cor
day hat looks good deal like 1t
only instead of bail the hat has
long streamers of chiffon to tie