Show KNITTING MACHINE ROMANCE Invent invented sd that a J cited lover might I 1 have H a revenge romance may certainly figure in many of the knitted waistcoats and nd gorgeous stockings worn by our un ull der graduates of to day but these have not so romantic an origin as the f 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 ot 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 wn impression on her heart he sought to make it on her purse by killing her means of livelihood and one is glad to read that all stocking makers corn com bained to frustrate frustrate his cruel purpose with the result that he fled with his invention Inen tion lo 10 prance where he be finally adlea ot of a broken heart whether for love of his big lady or of his spoiled in tradition does not say lon don chronicle |