River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-28
now LADIES CARRY PURSES.
Peculiar Uses Of the Feminine Pocket
book.

Peculiar Uses OF the Feminine Pocket
book.
ii is an Terminate trait. and one sell
dom noticed By the ladies themselves,
thas the majority Of them never use q
purse after the manner Of men. 4 WON
ems pocketoook Is. really an article Of
dress, a convenience, end an ornament at
the same time. 1t would be an excep-
tional curiosity to hear Of q lady going
out without her purse, even if she had
but ten cents IN il, and no immediate De-
maud for that, nor any use for it, so far
as she knew, while out
That such 4 wonderful variety Of purses
are manufactured yearly, establishes the.
fact Il al they aT9 II necessary or popular
part ii The feminine dress, amt hat taere
IS q demand for the taste and attention OF
purse makers in the great world of fash
ionable trade tbat is of no meager in
portauce. q lady's purse is presumed to
Ue designed fer the purpose Of carrying
sums OF money, but the majority Of Them
are miniature cUrio5ity-shOps.
1t Is safe 10 affirm that nine purses out
( Of ten owned and carried by ladies con
tain dozen or more articles foreign to
money
/ Go into any OF our fashionable up town
/ retail bazArs any day, and watch the
/ process of the opening Of a hundred
/ purses, more or less
/ First OF all, the manner oil getting az
/ the contents Of her purse is a Woua1ly pc
! culiarity, really ludierous and interesting.
/ From the amount of deiving and diving
Z re fD1t+traf7e u
ging into the compartments, il would
seem as if all the money was glued fast
1 to the uttermost corners.
Why women have SO much trouble III
I getting at their money, particularly small
change, is good deal of study.
4 man whisks out his pocketbook and
/ unciasps it with enterprising energy, and
seems to alight on the money he wants
! the first thing. as if it was full TO the top
and running over. He gives it q sort Of
] emphatic bang and snap as he clasps Il
and thrusts it back into his pocket, in
/ less fine than a lady consumes in fishing
hers ont of her pocket.
With woman the hard work seems 10
be in getting hold Of the money, shallow
as the purse may be, for it oeems to ha
stored away in maryeiousiy secure ana
/ secluded manner.
Ladies frequently sofer the crcatest
annoyance wnen trying TO make change
hastily in a crowd or paying car fare in
hurry. The pennies wont come out in
spite of tic eager, nervous sclatc ing thcv
keep up inside the mysterious purse. The
F., next aud perhaps the greatest object q;
interest attending a lady's pocket-boolt
1 IS its contents, apart from its storing ca
pacity fos money
! Examine one Of them, and it viii he
found to contain bits Of dress goods
small samples OF RIB N and WOODS a
broken machine needle. pis2e Of lea{
pencil about an inch and bait long, with
the point broken off; lock of hair in s
piece Of white paper, photograph, =
reeipe OF some kind, generally for cake.
dair-dye, or some new cosmetic N RI
age nodce rom some paper; two or three
/ addresses, mostly Of spiritual mediums.
/ fortune tcllers and dress makers; a Du'iCs,
! or two, dried ver5ena leaf, a brokea
earring and a wishbonc.
l. it any wonder they have such Diff.
Guilty in finding their changei Yet, il
! the darkest night, and on the shortest
/ notice, If necessary, they could 90 ~
4 that purse and find any one Of the ar'icle5
I it contains ne majority OF these purses
are carried III an outside pocket or il,
/ their ands, and generally half open. I.
is remarkable that ladies are rot mofs
frequently robbed Of their pocketbooks
! than they are. The purse at home has
wonderful knack of never being in th,|
same place twice, and never can be foun6
I quickly. When it is wanted q grant
4 search is instituted, from ali the pocket
/ II all tho boxes drawers and hooks i}f
/ tiny lady's chamber 1t seems to ~
/ forever on the wing, getting behind the
big Bible or under the large cover, ba
hind tie bureau, into the work basket.
under the bed, on the mantle, and in this
balls wagon.
II there ara any bills "a the femaiz,
purse they are generally crumpled up il.
to mysterious wads, or rolled around Is
ten-cent piece and a few pennies. Wits
the masculine pocket book il is cutie Il.
reverse it is always carried in particu
lar BoclSet--If it contains bills, they ars
generally well folded, although there arr
exceptions; when a man has but it'll
money, the more carefully is foldef
up. But the feminine portmounaie is a.
ways demoralized- matter what Dc
nomination note may be. a five, ten q
twenty, it IS all the same, admirably
crammed into the little receptacle.
1t appears to be the general impression
that ladies have more difficulty 10 keen.
ing money inside the purse than gentle
tlemen It has faculty Of being always
al low tide and at all times hard to 81
got ont by force, but eyaporates in :,
mysterious way, perplexlug to the owner
and annoying TO the furnishing agent.
No womans purse is literally empty
even il it contains no money. There may
not be "millioBs in it. but in ninety
nine cases out OF hundred there will w
small variety stock Tor private use with
in it