The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-15
FORTUNES IN TRIPLES.
Pocketbooks That Cost More Than
They Ever Carry.
From the Ne,c York Star.

From the Ne1c York Star
Half the well-dressed women of New
York carry pocketbooks that cost more
money than they ever inclose Just study
the ponderous, metal bound leather cases,
which every woman grasps in her little
fist when she goes shopping, and you'll
learn something that few men have hither-
10 suspected. The practice of carrying
the feminine purse high aloft in the fist
will not die out so long as this furnishes
chance to exhibit costly trifies ia leather to
a wondering world of men.
Nearly 500 for little bit of gold bound
leather that scarce fills the rosy palm for
which it was madel That is the price The
leather is a eod-tinted lizard SKIN, with all
the scales shining. The gold is richly
chased. Everything within and without
is costly and beautiful. Perhaps New York
has not yet reached tire point of making
silk purses out of a certain material prov
erbially unfit for such use, but very pretty
pocketbooks are made out of the polecat's
skin. OdorOus? Not in rhe least; the beast
has been slandered. Its skin is beautifully
grained, soft and plant. A famous con
Germ III this town has recently been making
odd experiments in feathers. The result is
that the Australian rabbit. the American
elk, the peccary, the reindeer, the anteater
The badger, the monkey, the coon, the buff
falo and even the elephant have yielded up
Their outer covering to CRAFTY the whims of
fair women. You may buy an elephant
purse for $40 or $50. The skin looks like
cork, De1ng of neutral tint, vita odd pin
holes penetrating the surface. 1t is tough
and marvelOu,ly durable. A few travelling
bags have been made of it. They weigh a
good deal when shaving case, brushes
combs and TASKS have been fitted in, ID
they fetch rather more than $3.50 apiece
Pocketboo2s of buffalo skin are pretty, and
the leather is extremely plant, though
stout
All these new feathers have driven out
the old-fashioned morocco. Everything
must be extensively oruamented with sill
yer and gold. The lizard skins come in
twenty or thirty varieties. They are
brought ready-cured from South America.
They are big enough, by careful piecing, to
be made into small travelling bags There
is popular notion that every scaled and
notified skin is that of q snake. AS
matter of fact, snake skins are compare
lively rare
The latest elephant skin used in New
York was cured here, and very successfully
cured. 1t went into bockeJ books, note
books, portfolios, travelling bags and what
not. The thickest portions had to be split
1t is SO tough that it has to be worked with
specially strong stools. When ali the skin
had been worked up one of the great feet
was made the pedestal of unique UNI
brella stand The great toes, looking like
big and badly brushed teeth, had an odd
appearance. The body of the stand is of
brass, with large elephants head in front
armed with Enthusiastically exaggerated nickel
plated tusks.
Among the rich there is a rage for UNIQUE
objects, such as pccketbooks, purses, trav-
cling bags. These things are made up fo'
the general public in sufficiently costly
form one would think, but with men to
whom $500 is a Uriae, costly things that
have duplicates will not serve. Travelling
bags costing $500 to $500 are constantly
made to order. They are wrought of Gu
rlous leather, and the customer picks out
silver mounted TASKS, brushes, razors and
the like to make up an expensive dressing
case, which is fitted into the bag. Odd and
original designs in hammered silver are
made to order as binding for lea her poclI-
eJbooks. Tnere is no limit to the cost of
gold Melted purses for ladies' Some of
them have great jewel In the bottom. \
tiny one to serve as a watch charm and,
perhaps, to carry car fare, is marked SIG,
while $50 is not a high price for larger
sizes.
Walking sticks are made the excuse for
curious indulgence of extravaganza tastes.
~NODOuJ DuNo SOlA-uc6iNe1 CduCo l1(lN 6AC0pb
to present to public men who never carry
the snowy gifts. Much costlier canes,
however, are those ornamented with enamel
or gold. One has a small head of EGruscan
gold enameled i'll garnet aud three SHADES of
blue. Not many buy such u stick for $45
Another has a head OF red rhodonite in q net
work of gold. 1t costs more than Sl00
Slll another has for head a dehcately
wrought gold coronet topped with brilliant
rhodonite In imitation Of red velvet, A
costlier one still has a great star sapphire
let into head of rich Etruscan gold. 1t
sells for $500. A head made of a cluster
of children's heads in silver sells TOR 800
Prices then run down to sou, $40, and 500. On
such sticks the heads have more or less fam
liar designs.
The costliest sticks are Of malacca: A
certain variety of small diameter brings,
unmounted, more thaz-sSo per stick. Prices
then rqpod2ng Follows a Bite a Al odd
SUCK ! Ends q Mans Life. WIN
she'll JESTER. VA, July 15.-E. c. Jof
T1l-kncwn throughout the Unit ning
rellfs proprietor of the Jordan WIFI Fixing
s1lf springs in this county, died IL l naia
Yg He was bitten in the hand by cane
heuirrel two months ago, and blos
ping set in. His arm was amputats
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