Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-20
PITiFOL PoCKErLEss WOMAN.
To what shifts Is she Put to Carry SAT-
Her Purse aud handkerchief.

To What Shifts Is She Put TO Carry Safe
Her Purse aud Handkerchief.
II human beings were classified &C
cordlng 10 their most striking pecu-
harities the fair sex of this period
would surely be called ''the pocketless
women"
Plain, sheath skirts are all very ine
But 10 never entered inferred into the
folds Of bell skirt to afford hiding
place for a pocket.
Nevertheless, there are certain which
must be capried, pocket or no pocket,
and the ways OF doing this which are
devised by various women are both lu-
dicrous and pathetic.
When woman starts out shopping
visiting, or any errand, there are sew
eral articles which it behooves her to
carry. In the. first place, every we'll
meaning woman likes To have hand
kerchief concealed somewhere about
her person; and, Furthermore, it dosen't
make much difference whether she be
arrayed with the panoply of rightenous-
ness, but she must carry at least her
car fare.
This is the very simplest way in which
the case presents itself. But the ways
In which women meet il are legion.
Take money! Often a woman has more
than she is absolutely certain TO need,
and, knowing full we'll by dire expert
ence the manifold dangers which attend
her pocketleSs condition, she slows it
away in divers and sundry places.
The hat is not uncommon hiding
place for this little surplus, which is
securely pinned between the hat frame
and the lining. a 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 max
ing some purchase which overdraws the
cash they have In sight as II were. 1t Is
very amusing then. The woman begins
70 hedge. Says she thinks she will
walt little while before deciding
Clerk, very much aggrieved, urges the
desirabIlity OF the goods. Woman
bushes. Clerk grows eloquent. Wo-
man says she will go over to the glove
counter while be is cutting the mate
rial. Truth begins TO dawn on clerks
mind and a smile on his t1ce. Woman
disappears, not 10 the dill ection of the
glove counter. Reappo airs in five min
utsS somewhat rufiled Jut solvent.
Some women carr money, particu-
larry car fare, in .he palms OF their
hands. Others, horrorSi have small
change between their teeth, and pay
very moist change into the conductors
grimy hand.
Handkerchiefs are generally tucked
under the bottom of the basque or be-
tween the buttons, but one young woman
of the writer's acquaintance always
thrust hers up her sleeve. That,is, she
did until the floor walker in the dry
goods store led her over to the office,
under the i'm preston that she was shop
lifting. One bright young woman had
a dress waist mace with wide revers in
in front. Under each revers was
small pocket ike the change pocket in
a mans waistCoat. One of these was
sacred TO the use OF silver and the other
TO paper money. That girl was happy
for awhile. Her money was safe. But
one Cay she counted her handkerchiefs
and found that she had lost six inside Of
two weeks. She raked her brains for a
remedy. She had been in the habit OF
tucking her square OF linen or lace un-
der the edge o. her basque and she could
not think QAeI ~ other Mace 7 kch
te5IS to. Ai6sHfy 4iGlhl ds,A Al 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 thiSto
her Serchief, and walked serene in the
consciousness that she was invulnerable
20 loss.
There Is always the shopping bag
Awkward and unsttractive as it is, II
has saved most of our hairs, gray and
otherwise, from being brought in sor-
row 20 the grave. 1t is really astonish-
ing. the capacity Of the cheerful little
thingsl The other day group of girls,
each with a shopping bag hanging like
a trophy at her belt, was sitting az
lunch in an uptown restaurant. Some
one dared the girls to show the contents
OF their respective bags, and such a mot
lev collection OF trinEets as was forth
with displayed would have discounted
the total production of whole dozen
of scHOOlbOys' pockets. But the news
paper girl, as usual, was ahead. And
for anyone who doubts the usefulness
of shopping bag, she submits the fol-
lowing little list Of the contents OF her
own very small one:
One note book, one purse, three pen
ellis, one knife, two letters, one stamp
box, one handkerchief, two gloves, six
hair pins, one glove buttOner, one rail-
road ticket, three keys, one watch, one
veil-twenty-fve separate articles in
this small receptacle.
This is an actual list. and although
the bag was a tribe aldermanic in pro-
portions still it was not full, as bags go.
Nevertheless, the shopping bag IS on
lv a slight amelioration OF our condi-
ton. There must come some sort Of
revolution.
In the mean time, behold usl
Poor, pitiiul, pOcketless womanl
They First Wore Trousers.
By the patient archaeological research
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