Show KNITTING MACHINE ROMANCE that a J cited lover might have H s revenge komlance may certainly figure in many of the knitted waistcoats and gorgeous stockings worn by our un der graduates of to day but these have not so romantic an origin as the first of these articles produced in this country for tradition has it that william lee who in the sixteenth century in vented the knitting frame on which both stockings and waistcoats were produced mechanically was driven to this piece of ingenuity by the cruel flouting of the lady he loved who hap bened to be a stocking knitter enraged at his failure to make an impression on her heart he sought to make it on her purse by killing her means 0 livelihood and one Is glad to read that all stocking makers corn bained to frustrate his cruel purpose with the result that he fled with his invention to france where he finally died of a broken heart whether tor love 0 his lady or of his spoiled in tradition does not eay lon don chronicle |