Show I A Run in Y Your our Hose I e do M Mr e. e r 4 T w i s I u Z ro Cheer up Miss and Mrs Amor- Amor er h Y Ical leal Science is working day and i a. a night to find why stockings wear out and what to do about it Sta Staff ti members of the Pittsburgh Testing Testing Test ing Laboratory who test everything everything every from to steel know V thing hosiery n more about it than most women f y i C cS R r 1 i b t i k t I Ii 1 Test walkers recently worked for the laboratory In the morning they were dispatched by A. A R. R r r Ellis laboratory president Each night their shoes were removed alb 6 and the stockings stocking examined Experts Ex i r ports washed each pair in its own private beaker every night then tai x f examined them for the first sign r 1 e 1 of wear v cm rw r I M Y K r N Some startling Y w ro r r facts were discovered discovered dis dis- t covered about the v wearing e a n g i qualities of various vari- vari f s 's ous kinds ol of stockings s. s House Housewives wives clerks r and y get more runs in n t their b e ir irh h hose se than wait T But waitresses wait res es w wear ear y more holes in zy their stockings s U Uthan than steno ra w hers M More 0 re hosiery hosier failures appear first on the legs t than ban thanin banIn r wv r r w in an any other part art ot of the stocking stocking- The test walkers came from a every walk of ot life They wore rr hose purchased in 50 cities Much interest was shown in wear by worn r en in various occupations p py FJ y d i Stenos 4 1 meet their Waterloo against against rough edges of desks wi And since their office work is tight light they dance Y F may at night y Y Y i t Contrasted to the stenographer the waitress is thoroughly tired when evening comes She's more apt to flop wearily on the bed and leave dancing for Saturday night r r f i y r Officials of the laboratory ll f a claim that savings of 30 per percent percent perr r Y 4 4 cent are possible through w y development of ot improved unproved r r products This means they say that American women r 4 t who nowr now spend for hos hosiery hos ra 7 F iery every year might tuck g r back in their 1 purses by purchasing the t rs' rs wr right kind of ot stockings |