Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-31
Trustful alway.


DOING GOOD By ACCIDENT.
Poor, pitiable, pocketless women, as
they have compassionately been called,
may derive a little satisfaction from the
fact that their deprivation, inconvenient
and even pathetic as 1t often is, cannot be
looked upon as an unmixed evil.
"There's no loss without some gain,"
saith the old adage, and there is sometimes
an attempt at balancing the worlds affairs
that results in their partial adjustment.
The woman with no pocket to her skirt
has been benefactor to the woman who
had no skirt to her pocket, but an uncon-
scious and careless bsnefactor, and entitled
to no credit for disinterestedness.
When a handkerchief must be always
tan evidence, 1t is essential that it should
be decorative rather than useful. A hand
kerchief tucked away in pocket is one
thing, handkerchief displayed as an Or
nament to the corsage is quite another.
Has it occurred to any "poor, pocketless
woman" that by ubjecting herself to in
| convenience, and even to en- mbarrsssment,
she has thereby encouraged a great indus
1
space, new styles of weaving, new stamped
designs and embroideries have been
| invented. OF course, hsndkerchiefs were
in demand long before these no-pocket
days, but when the pocket-less sex must
purchase at least four times as many as
they formerly were content with, because
of the numbers lost through insecurity of
attachment, and because of the fascination
which the dainty things exert upon the eye
ard purse of the shopper, we see at once
| that this industry must have received an
extraordinary impetus. In this way, one
of the lost arts of ireland has been again
acquired, the demand FOR fancy hsndker-
chiefs having furnished numbers Of peasant
women with work in an ancient style Of
embroidery known as 'sprigging," revived
by ladies who are interested in promoting
cottage industries and taught by them in
their own homes to all who would learn
For this work a good market has been
found in America.
With 80 much encouragement to this and
other handmade embroideries and lace
work, and the mschine-made embroideries
1t is plainly to be seen that pocketlesi
woman ia doing some good in the world
She ''didn't go to do IT," she didn't know
that she was doing 1t; she only knew tha
she spent good deal of money on hand
kerchiefs and that she strewed them broad
cast, in doors and out.
Now that she knows she Ia encouraging
industry and stimulating trade che vii
care less for the criticisms of pocketfu
man, and go on buying, displaying, and
, losing, with an approving conscience. Th
, next thing she knows, full skirts will com
in. They will be five yards around, ant
she can have pocket on each side If sh
wishes. The handkerchief will, possibly
grow larger and palmer. It may be tba
Htape borders' will be offered for eommol
use. With skirts, and bonnets, sleeve
and shoulders, of 1880, We shall probabl
i, have revived the styles Of that date
handksrchiefs, If anyone remembers wha
they were. The industry will continue
Q thrive, doubtless, but the woman with
q pocket will not encourage Ii In ths iavis
way she does at present.
SEEKING orT MANY tNvEsTfeNs.
@ A woman who has distinguished hefse
> as Of, inventor is Mrs. Ella Nelson Gal
v lard. In her younger days she was Il
d belle Of a Maryland city; now she oceupi
aud amuses herself with small invention
many of them very ussful and oil 4
O. genions. Among them Is the eyeless ne
d die, almost universally used By sturgeon
"a lock- which enables any one, by sissp
u looking ct the key, TO ascertain wheth