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Prohack, guided by the prancing Machin, discovered that, in addition to a study, he had a bedroom and a dressing-room and a share in Eve's bath-room. The dressing-room had a most agreeable aspect. Machin opened a huge and magnificent wardrobe, and in drawer after drawer displayed his new hosiery marvellously arranged, and in other portions of the wardrobe his new suits and hats and boots.
At eleven she was put at a loom in a Pennsylvania mill, where she wove hosiery for fourteen hours a day until tuberculosis claimed her at nineteen. A poet by nature she developed her mind to the full in spite of these disadvantages, and when she was forced to abandon her loom she became an organizer for the Consumers' League, and later a vivid and eloquent power in the suffrage movement.
"I was in business for myself," replied the applicant, "both in the West and in the East. I got my first experience in a small town in Nebraska, but I carried on a larger business in the East later." So they gave Jimmy a trial in a new section of the hosiery department, wherein he was the only male clerk.
She was the buyer in the 'Petticoats, and when Philip entered was engaged in conversation with the buyer in the 'Gentlemen's Hosiery; Miss Bennett was a woman of massive proportions, with a very large red face heavily powdered and a bust of imposing dimensions; her flaxen hair was arranged with elaboration.
In the department store to the general managership of whose mail-order department he had aspired Jimmy secured a position in the hosiery department at ten dollars a week. The department buyer who had interviewed him asked him what experience he had had with ladies' hosiery. "About four or five years," replied Jimmy. "For whom did you work?"
Classes in manual work of various kinds woodwork, carpentry, applied drawing and building construction, lace and crochet making, needlework, dressmaking and embroidery, sprigging, hosiery and other such subjects, have been numerously and steadily attended. I do not ignore the argument that such home industries must in time give way before the competition of highly-organised factory industries.
These sales will average something like the following figures: Silks $15,000 Dress goods 6,000 Muslins 3,000 Laces 2,000 Shawls 2,500 Suits 1,000 Calicoes 1,500 Velvets 2,000 Gloves 1,000 Furs 1,000 Hosiery 600 Boys' clothing 700 Notions 600 Embroideries 1,000 Carpets 5,500 The total daily receipts average $60,000, and have been known to amount to $87,000.
I offer myself a cocktail; I bow and accept; I dress for dinner with the aid of a rascally valet, but do I swear at him? No, dear friend; I say, 'Henry, I have known far, far worse scoundrels than you. Thank you for filling up my bay rum with water. Bless you for wearing my imported hosiery!
I should say that he is a gentleman, although his clothes were pretty badly worn." "Yes," said Harriet, "his suit was shabby, but his linen was clean and his coat well brushed." "My!" exclaimed Elizabeth. "He must have made an impression on some one." "Well," said Harriet, "it isn't often you see such a nice-looking chap in the hosiery section."
His trim little frame was clothed in expensive garments; his patent leather pumps were the handiwork of the most fashionable of bootmakers, and quite uncomfortable; his hosiery was of the finest silk and his watch-chain was of platinum; there were pearl studs in his unpolished shirt front and four shining black buttons on his neat white waistcoat; his clawhammer coat had a velvet collar and fitted him about the shoulders as if it had been constructed for a man who possessed much more of a figure than he; and his trousers were primly pressed.
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