St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-16
Advantages That Result From
Wearing the Direc-
tOire Dresses.
Ladies Who Must Retire When
They Want to Get at
Money.

III a frightened VOICE:
''My purse has been Stolen!'
"Nonsense," said her companion.
''Oh, yes it has"
sBut you have not looked"
s'LOokedr' exclaimed the young
woman with scared voice and face.
II guess don't need to look. I've got
Oh my new dress"
The other lady was perfectly satisfied
with that explanation, and the woman
in charge of the room was called in.
After much discussion male under
official of the ferry company took part
in the excitement.
"Why on earth don't you feel in your
pOcket?" he asked.
A singular expression settled upon the
faces of the three women, an expression
of mystery blended with pity for the
man.
''But why don't she feel in her
pocket?" the laundering man persisted.
"She's got OH certain kind of dress,
and doesn't need to- said the young
woman's companion. 1.-THE ideal" she
said after the man had gone. elbow
could tell him that in directOire dress
you always know what you have got in
your pocket, and if you don't sit on
certain thing you know you haven't got
it. How perfectly absurd men are!''
But to return to the man. His face
showed that he was resigned to the mys-
terry of the certain kind of DRESS" then
it lighted up with brand-new idea.
He turned to the companion of the girl
who had lost her pocketbOok, and he
asked:
"Why don't you feel in your pocket?
Perhaps she has laid it down some
where, and you have picked it up, me-
chanically, you know"
Lord, man!'' said the lady adj
dressed. Don't you see. Pve got on a
tailor-made dress. | have no pocket at
all to put anything in. Excuse me, sir,
into the secrets of dressmaking and los
aud seize the pickpocket before he gets
away, you would do us great favor.
He is probably out in the crowd now
picking pockets"
The man went out and very wisely
disappeared. The ladies waited for
him.
Ibid you have much in your pocket
bookW the woman of the waiting room
asked of the one who lost that article.
Il had over S." she replied. "lknow
l 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 between that Car
and this ROOM"
''Five dollarsv' exclaimed her COM
panion. ''Why, Lillian, how can you be
so careless? Inever had IS in my purse
in my life. Inever keep anything but
ferry tickets and cards and pencil and
small change in my purse. When l
have bills put them-Well, put them
is without doing murder"
SIN your stocking"' inquired the little
woman in charge of the room.
my stocking!" the lady repeated.
with evident amazement. .sOf course
not. Who on earth ever heard of any
body putting money in their stockings?
No; when want to keep anything like
money very safe put 1t 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.
''YOu know all about them," they
said.
''Deary me, I should say 1 did," said
she. "Half of my time is spent a-fuss-
ing with ladies' pockets. Pve been
told that a man, when he has his over
coat on, often has twenty-One pockets.
If them twenty-one pockets gave men
as much trouble as ladies' has with their
one, all the men would be insane. The
reason is woman's one pocket holds
more than mans twenty. They're
always coming in here and going be-
hind that screen and dumping out their
pockets to search for something they
can't find.
"Sometimes they remind me of the
magic fellows in the theaters which
pull so many things out of hat. Often
OH that table till you wouldn't believe
she could get 'em all back again if her
skirts were taken off and sewed at the
bottom and the things were piled in.
When l look at what is in a lady's
pocket can tell at once if she's married
or single. Single girls pockets are
always full of letters, ribbons, candies.
and these little c0lOred pictures given
out On the streets. Married women'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
pies Of dress goods, buttons, Spools of
cottOn-Oh, couldn't begin to tell you
what all is in a married wOman's
pockets. l have seen the full of peach
basket and the weight Of four pounds
emptied on that table by married
lady.
''The greatest surprise 1 ever had,"
said the woman, twas when a lady
tainted here one day and her husband
said it I'D feel in her pocket I'd find a
bottle of salts. While was hunting.
for it l found she was shoplifter,
bic. found a lace fichu, with;the price
tag OH it, and some lace handkerchiefs
tied up in ribbon, just as they show
them in the stores. and some silk stock
ings. There were other things that I
have forgotten, not in her regular
pocket, but in a kind of big, bag-like
thing she had seWed in the front Of her
dress. Her husband was there, and he
colored up and asked me to say nothing
about it. My Godp says he, I thought
all that was stopped long ago. You
don't know what l have suffered
says he.
''That lady was not robbed" contin-
ued the ferry woman. "WOmen have
not been robbed Oh the streets now for
nearly ten years. Ten years ago, when
they began to carry their purses in their
hands, the young thieves who did not
know any better used to grab their
purses and run, but even the foolishest
of them got more sense long ago. No
body snatches ladies' purses now. and
this is so well understood that the most
fashionable dressmakers do not put
pockets in any of the new style gowns
unless pockets is specially ordered.
Why don't the purses be stolen? Be-
cause there's nothing but loose change