Show M AS S TO KNITTING If U women should take to knitting stockings again as the mothers of the present generation were wont to do doth they th 1 will be able to avenge them themselves themselves selves on the hosiery hoslet manufacturers who are responsible for the increased duties provided In the pending tariff 1 titi bill They Tho will also satisfy in part the wrath ef of the New ew York Times which is inclined to be more than critical of the methods and results of the Ithe tariff tinkering now In progress in Wash Washington WashIngton WashIngton ington In a learned discussion of the subject of knitting a writer In the Times who evidently evident wore yarn socks in his boyhood says MYS that knitting is isan Isan isan an excellent pastime and that it re ro requires requires quires concentration of the mind and effective Those must have been dreadfully uncomfortable stockings that the French revolution revolutionary ary Rr women knitted while they the kept tabs in front of the guillotine the Times continues co With their minds occupied by b mathematical calculations and thoughts of vengeance nce the stitch must have hae suffered But the stockings of our grandmothers meaning those they Uley manufactured for the use of others not those they the wore of which we have no knowledge frequently re so required of the wearer Spartan endur endurance endurance ance and a Mark Tapley disposition There is no reason why wh If the American women take up knitting anew they should not carry it to per perfection perfection and establish it as an art Stockings and socks knitted at home I should be something more than dura durable durable durable I ble and warm They should fit nt the feet I and not make the wearer feel as If he were walking In a pair of particularly uncomfortable sabots The idea of ot I penance should be dissociated from I knit stockings I |