Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — NOW SHE WEARS SOCKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOW SHE WEARS SOCKS.

The Latest Fad in France—Long Stockings Given Away. The latest danger which woman’s relentless foe threatens her is the sock. In Paris, according to a high fashioned authority who has recently

returned from there, the long stocking is doomed. Every one wears socks. Boys and girls in short trousers and skirts display a waste of pink flesh between the top of the sock and the bottom of their garments. There is. of course, not this same display in the case of the grown-up wearers of the sock, but there are sufficient other disadvantages to make up for this. The agonies of the woman who is wearing these things for the first time are untold. If, in a moment of absorption in other things she forgets the fact that she has discarded stockings, she is promptly recalled to a sense of her loss by the keen discomfort of her feelings. She cannot, for an instant, remember what is the

matter with her and the sickening conviction that her garter has slipped is the first explanation that occurs to her. Then she remembers and her horror passes, but the discomfort remains. Of course, socks are chilly. Of course, they make the wearer keenly uncomfortable. She dreads a windy day as she would a deluge. A step to a carriage or from a train assumes a proportion which horrifies her. But she has the gratifying consciousness that she is wearing what fashion demands, and that is sufficient to sustain most women in almost any emergency.

SOCKS FOR LITTLE ONES.

THE PROPER THING.