MADE THE KAISER'S SOCKS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 243, 19 January 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

MADE THE KAISER'S SOCKS.

MAN* NO LONGER PROri) OF HIS WORK. Ono of the very few places in England where tho old trade of framework knit'iug still survives is the little village of Wood borough, near Nottingliain. Here, right up to the outbreak ot the war, the Kaiser had his socks made, the work being entrusted to an old framework knitter resident in the Tillage by the Notttngham lirm tit manufacturing hosiers who had the contract The Kaiser, it appears, wa.> very particular about the fit of his socks round the tinkles and insisted on double the usual number of "narrowings" being iuade. ■' He's most uncommon slim nl>out the H ot," the c!d man was wont to rein irk when questioned on the subject in the pre-war day*. "A pretty foot —a very pretty foot.' T calls it Uut now he frowns :it any mention of the Imperial sock*. " I's -ithanied ol tha: work,'' he says, and refuse to be drawn further.