Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-10
ABOUT WOMEN.
Mans Advantages In the Matter OF
Pockets.
GIimpses of Fashions and Hints For the
Household-A Woman Made Ctr
zen-"Kissims."

The great law Of averages, says May
L. Booth in Harper's Bazaar, makes II
certain that the reticule Of the repre-
sentative woman when she goes forth
on her walk (which, by fine synec-
doche, means ride in horse Car 10 q
street of shops will contain her hand
kerchief, her purse, handful OF loose
change, several addresses written on
separate slips of paper, two pairs Of long
wristed evening gloves to be left at the
cleaners, lead pencil, penkniie,
boot buttoner, six samples of crewel
and Germantown wool to be matched,
various newspaper scraps, her last re-
ceipt from the intelligence office, let
Ter or two, set of sleeve buttons two
earriuga, and some bOntOns. Her suour-
ban sister adds to this collection time
table, q memorandum book, and her re-
,mn ticket. She is, therefore, in more
evil case than the other. For the city
lady has only to assert the elegant mis-
ceIIspy of her bag each time she buys
spool Of thread or needs q sample,
which, with the day before her, can
usually be accomplished with deiibera-
ton and an unrufiled spirit. But the
country visitor finds herself in the last
street car that can possibly connect With
the last ferry boat that meets the last
train, and spends the whole time oil bel
anxious passage In agitated efforts to
find her ticket, which could not more
etfectually elude discovery il it were au
Eleusinian mystery.
1t is impossible to compute the time
lost and the nervous strain imposed up.
on women by this habit Of indiscrimi.
nate gathering up. 1t opens a question
ton Of indirect damages, as il were,
ana sets the moral statistician wonder.
ing how many tiffs between lovers,
nsgging of servants aid children, differ
epces OF wives and husbands, may not
be due TO the worried mind and wearlec
patience for which the stuffed handbag
is resi- onsible. Nay, We offer our con-
tribution to that branch OF sociology
now being so vigorously studied in the
ne wspapers, the frequency and causes OF
vivOrce. 1t is eminently probable that
the little rift within the matrimonial
Lutte, which 10y and by shall make its
music mute, too often begins in the
husbands impatient remonstrance
against the wife's faulty in carrying a
bag which holds so much that she can
find nothing, when she has already
tw ice eXplasued to him with unfailing
sweetness that the latchkey he is so
disagreeable about is ''somewhere in
that Sc tchel."
If We were asked what is to-day the
treat advantage which man has over
woman in the struggle for existence, we
shoud announce without hesitation,
pCcktts. Pockets are the symbol OF an
orderly mind, of logical powers, practic-
al requirements, hOmogeneity. A bag,
q w0man's bag, shopping bag, is the
emblem of the kingdom OF Misrule.
Speaking roundly, mans clothes con-
tain dozen pockets. In this oonVe'
nient place his change Is kept, ever
ready, and never In the way; IN that
receptacle are his knife, corkscrew aud
shoe buttoner; another compartment Is
sat red to his purse; still another holds
his handkerchief; his gloves may have
| q separate home if he will; his eyeglass
| lives in an aristocratic secluslon; watch,
pencil case and toOthpicks are comfort
able segregated, and he has room, be-
sides, for memorandum book, letters,
news papers, the new magazines, visit
ing cards, and case of court plaster.
Is it any wonder that he turns the key
of the worlds great lock easily and well 1,
having both hands free for that exer-
else? And the fact that he has con
quered his pockets, so to speak, testities
to the supremacy Of man. Ii his tailor
demurred against putting them In that
useful minion would find his occupstiOd
gone. But when woman is told by h"T
drt ssmaker that only one inaccessible
pocket is to be allowed her. she supinely
submits, and thereby Proclsims her i'll
| lerioIity of sex.