Show spring walking sticks friendship canes are to be the fashion with the young women who take long pring tramps over moss and fell the best friend of all gives the cane which is long and like unto an alpenstock around the top is tied a ribbon with the name of the cane donor thereon and the date of the first trip upon which the cane did duty each successive walk ia marked by another ribbon which in turn bears the date of the trip and the name of the one who pleasantly beguiled the journey in time little bo peeps crook canies conies to wear as many colors as were in joseph coat when the cane becomes sufficiently with ribbons it is laid away among the scalps of the season and a new one is obtained to take its place the girl of proper discretion becomes no more attached to one walking stick than she does to any of the beaux who are represented by bow knots upon the alpenstock new york world |