Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-09-02
BY KATHLEEN MCKEE.

couch h-h," / gasped, making a lrahlic,
futile search for my handkerchief
Il beg your pardon am SO sorry
Did hurt you"
By the time stepped seeing second
edition of the promised land in the
heavens in the form of a couple of mill
lion stars. and could discontinue nurs-
ing that part Of my anatomy that had
been iabbed my restored vision focused
on perfectly adorable girl casting So
licitous glances in my direction.
Before I had time to swallow any
tears she assured me that she was so
glad that l didn't get hurt, but she just
couldn't help 1t on account OF that nasty
lurch made by the street car, glvlns an
explanatory wave of two instruments o.
torture which learned were knitting
needles.
While I was carefully phrasing a polite
aDpreciation of our pleasant meeting
she informed me that she just loved to
knit and she was going away to school
in two weeks and this was the fourth
sweater that she, had made.
ut doesn't take any time TO make
sweater and I expect to have three mVe
done by the time l am ready to leave
EVERYBODY'S
DOING IT.
looked down the car and saw
Of brilliant blue while she whispered TO
herself, Knit three, purl three.
"Eyerybody's doing it, too" she as
sured me, casting condeseending glance
in the direction Of my idle hands, why
nv chum has made three in between
times OF taking dictation for her boss,
BEFORE I could collect my ratified facul-
ties enough to ask how difficult 1t would
be to learn, she explained the advantage
of sweaters over georRette waists, assur-
ing me that sweaters were twice as
chcap. we're mice and woolly' and never
did get mussed.
well. I guess I'll have to go" she
said. preparing TO gather up her bundie
of American beauty rose yarn, when our
eight o'clock special" careened around
the corner and 1 received second 1ab
which put my other eye out Of commits
sion for whole.
NY mind rotated around the subject
of sweaters all day, and l wondered how
I would look perambulating languidly
to work In one Of those fuzzy affairs.
To be out Of style is a terrible calam-
ity and the multiplicity Of sweaters
everywhere on the street at lunch hour
convinced me that l was hundred years
behind.
1ueIe were plHk .hWtNANASf bANN NAA~Nf
burnt orange, red black, green, laven-
der. purple and a dozen or so colors
tnat | had never been introduced to.
There were plain sweaters, striped
sweaters sweaters with collar designs
and sweaters without.
FRINGE
on SOME.
Some had fringe that called to mind
pictures Of the Indian war chief all
dolIed up for a conquest, and others were
finished with organdy collars and cuts
With wool embroidery.
Some resembled grandmother's reputed
closest knitting. although she would
he speechIess If she could give the popu-
lar styles the once-oyer.
For the love Of Mike" I medltated
watching a combination Of turquoise blue
and burnt orange mince across the
street, Il wonder what all those sheep
are going to do this winterf'
7 also observed a few thousand sc9rfs
taking a promenade down the street,
some Of which sported imitation Greek
designs.
Hurriedly | entered a store and made
line for the art department.
Here / was educated 10 the fact that
everybody Is going 10 knit sweaters this
fall aud that it doesn'. make any dir.