The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-21
Some Mysterious Recepta-
C1eS Which Men Do Not
Understand.
THEY CARRY MONEY
No Chance for Any Pockets at All
Left in the Latest Style Of
Dresses.
From the sun.

and then giving her skirts just the
right shake with her body, and just
the most artistic twist with one hand,
sat down. Instantly she bounced up
and exclaimed in a frightened voice.
"My purse has been stolen!n
Nonsense" said her companion.
"Oh, yes, it has,
But you have not looked"
sLookedr exclaimed the young
woman with the scared voice and face,
II guess l don't need to look. I've got
on my new dress" II
The other lady was perfectly salts
fed with that explanation, and the
woman in charge of the room was
called in. After much discussion a
male under official of the ferry COM
pany took part in the excitement.
"Why on earth don't you feel in
your pocket?" he asked.
A singular exdression settled upon
the faces of the three women-an ex-
preston of mystery blended with pity
for the man.
but why don't she feel in her
pocketYn the laundering man persisted.
THAT KIND OF A DRESS.
'sShe's got on a certain kind of dress,
and doesn't need to- said the young
woman's companion. 1.-The ideaI' she
said after the man had gone. "How
could | tell him that in a Directoire
dress you always know what you have
got in your pocket, because you sit on
your pocket, and if you don't sit or q
certain thing yon know you haven't
got it. How perfectly absured men
are!n
But to return to the man. His face
showed that he was resigned to the
mystery of the certain kind of dress, -"
then it lighted up with a brand new
idea. He turned to the companion OF
the girl who had lost her pocketbook,
and he asked
"Why don't you feelin pocket?
Perhaps she has laid it down some
where, and you have picked it up,
mechanically, you know"
Lord, man!n said the lady adj
dressed. Don't you see, I've got on a
tailor-made dress. ] have no pocket
at all to put anything in. Excuse
me, sir; but if, instead of standing and
prying into the secrets of dressmak-
ing and losing allthis time, you would
step out and seize the pickpocket be-
fore he gets away you would do us a
great favor. He is probably out in
the crowd now picking pockets"
WHERE MONEY IS KEPT.
The man went out and very wisely
disappeared. The ladies waited for
him.
did you have much inyour pocket
book?n the woman of the waiting
room asked of the one who lost that
article.
II had over $5,n she replied. 81
know | had my purse in the cross
town car, because-because | had to
put up my foot to sit on so as not to
feel it so plainly. | was robbed be-
tween that car and this room"
Five dollars!p exclaimed her com
panion. why, Lillian, how can you
be so careless? | never had So in my
purse in my life. | never keep any
thing but ferry tickets and cards and
a pencil and small change in my
purse. When / have bills | put them
well, | put them where NJ thief can
get them, that is, without doing muir
der"
SIN your stocking?" inquired the lit
tie woman in charge of the room.
my stockingw the lady repeated,
with evident amazement. f'Of curse
not. Who on earth ever heard of any
body putting money in their stock
ings? No; when | want to keep any
thing like money very safe | put it
where | keep my watch-right here"
and she tapped the top of her corsage.
When these ladies went out, the
woman in charge of the waiting room
talked about women's pockets.
CONTENTS OF THEIR POCKETS.
''Deary me-" said she, "half of my
time is spent abusing with ladies'
pockets.
when l look at what is in a lady's
pocket l can tell at once if she's mar
ried or single. Single girls pockets are
always full of letters, ribbons, candies,
and these little colored pictures given
out on the streets. Married woInen's
pockets have everything in them
things they have picked up in going
through their houses, bits of string,
tacks, always two or more handker-
chiefs, tradesmen's cards, scissors, sam
Piles OF dress goods, buttons, spools of
cotton-oh, l couldn't begin to tell you
what all is in a married woman's pock-
cts. | have seer the full of a peach
basket and the weight of four pounds
emptied on that table by a married
LADY,
NO MONEY IN THEM.
THAT lady was not robbed con-
tinued the ferry women. women
have not been robbed on the streets
now for nearly ten years. Why don't
the purses be stolen2 Because there's
nothing but loose change in them and
sometimes not even that. There is
one kind of pocketbook in which
there is money; that's the kind that
you see carried in the little reticules
some ladies always carry, When a
lady carries a reticule and keeps her
purse in it, you may know she has
got money in it. They do that way.
because it is not every lady that will
inhibition the front of her dress to
take out her money in a store crowded
with men, and as for them to carry it
under their garters-well, they go into
private rooms here to get at their
money. Land knows what they do in
a store, or a horse car, or in the street.
But, as | said, it is not many ladies
| that are troubled where to carry
money, because they don't have it to
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