Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-18 | Page 2 | Stockings

how many readers are familiar with the history and origin ot the most common articles they dally use we eat drink wear without thinking whence or wherefore were known among the romans more than 1800 years ago as la proved by paintings found in the ot pompeii they were considered more ornamental than useful in the colder climate of northern europe they became a necessity and tho manufacture ot them became a recognized employment in the twelfth century when they were fashioned chiefly of cloth jn the reign of edward II 11 they assumed a resemblance to those now worn at the courts of spain and italy they were fashioned of silk and were made enormously large