OCR Text |
Show r , 8T0CKING8 LAST A LIFETIME Made of Human Hair- and imported from China. They were black stockings, thick, stiff, lustrous, and tho price nmrk on thorn was $15. "From China," said tho dealer. ''From Northern China. Every family 1ms a fow pairs of human hair stock Ings there. They aro worn over tho cotton stockings they are too prickly to be worn noxt tho skin and, properly prop-erly treated, they last a lifetime. "Tho ChlnoBo explorer who sold mo those stockings said that when a child's hnlr Is shaved In Northern China tho hair Is prosorvpd In a special hair-box of lacquer. As soon as tho box Is full onousU tho hair Is taken from It and a pair of slocKlngs Is wo-von. wo-von. Such stockings havo a sentimental, senti-mental, almost a religious value, nu-J they nro rarely parted with. It would bo safe to bet that there nro not six other pairs of hair stockings on salo In Amerlcn. |