The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-03
plr,fuL RocxgTLEss WOMAN.
To whnt SIiifls Is She Put to Carry Snfo
Her Purse and handkerchief

Her Purse ana Handkerchief.
| If human beings were classified accord
| ing to their most striking peculiaritcs the
fair sex OF this period would surely be
called 1.-The pocketlcSs woman"
| Plain sheath skirts are all very fine,
/ but it never entered into the folds Of Il
| bell skirt to afford a hiding place for II
pocket
Nevertheless there are certain articles
which must be carried, pocket or no
pocket, and the ways OF doing this, which
are devised by most women, arc both
| ludicrous and pathetic.
When u woman starts out shopping or
! visiting, or OH any errand, there are sew
er;,l articles which it bchooves her to carry
In the first place every well meaning wom-
an likes to have II handkerchief concealed
somewhere about her person, and, further
more. it doesn't make much difference
whether she be arrayed with the panopy of
Righteousness, but she must carry Mt least
her car fare.
This is the very simplest way in which
the case presents itself. But the ways in
which women meet it are legion Take
money! Often Il woman has more than
she Is absolutely certain to need and
Knowing full well by dire experiences the
manifold dangers which attend her pocket
less condition, she slows it away in divers
and sundry places.
The hat is q not uncommon hiding place
for this little surplus, which is securely
pinned between the hat frame and the lin
ing. y great many women carry their
extra money in small bag placed inside
their dress waists. Others wear bands
about their waists, as did the miners in
the old California days. Others select
their stockings and still others their shoes
as repositories of wealth. These women
are always making some purchase which
overdraws the cash they have in sight, as
it were. 1t is very amusing then The
woman begins to hedge; says she thinks
she will wait IL little while before deciding.
CLERK, very much aggrieved, urges the de-
STABILITY of tie goods. Woman bushes
Clerk grows eloquent. Woman SAYS she
Will 20 over to the glove counter while he
| is cutting the material. Truth begins to
dawn on clerks mind and II smile on his
face. Woman disappears, not in the direc-
Ton OF the glove counter. Reappears in
I'VE minutes Somev'hat ruflletl but solvent
some women carry money, particularly
car fare, in the palms of their hands
| Others, horrors! have small change be-
tween their teeth, and pay very moist
nickels into the conductors grimy hand
Handkerchiefs are generally tucked I'M
der the bottom of the basque or between
| viz 'oCeouo, bub Uuc young woman OF the
writer's acquaintance always thrusts hers
up her sleeve That is, she did until the
fioorwalker in the dry goods store led her
over to the Office, under the impression
that she was shoplifting. One bright young
woman had n dress waist made with wide
rcvers in front. Under each revers was Il
small pocket like change pocket in Il
mans waistcoat.
| One of these was sacred to the use of sill
YER and the other to paper money That
girl was happy for awhile Her money
was safe. But one day she counted her
handkerchiefs, and found that she had lost
six inside of two weeks. She racked her
brains for remedy. She had been in the
habit of tucking her square of linen or lace
under the edge of her basque, and she
could not think of any other place which
would be equally eligible. AT last she had
an idea. She took one of these clasps such
as are used for holding up sleeves or hose,
and fastened that under her basque. Then
she clasped this to her kerchcf, and walked
serene i'll the consciousness that she was in
vulnerable to loss
There is always the shopping bag. Awk-
ward and unattractive as it is, it has saved
most of our hairs. gray and otherwise from
being brought in sorrow to the grave. 1t
is really astonishing, the capacity of the
cheerful little thingsl-New York Sun.