Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-12-29
PlTlFUL HocKETLESs WOMAN.
To What Shifts Is She Put to Carry Safe
Her Purse and Handkerchief.

Her Purse and Handkerchief.
IL human beings were classified accord
ing to their most striking peculiarities the
fair sex of this period would surely be
called 1.-The pocketless woman"
Plain sheath skirts are all very fine,
but it never entered into the folds of a
bell skirt to afford hiding place for IA
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, are both
ludicrouS ana pathetic.
When woman starts out shopping or
visiting, or on any errand, there are sew
eral articles which it behooves her to carry.
In the first place every well meaning wom-
an likes to have handkerchief concealed
somewhere about her person. and, further
more, it doesn't make much difference
whether she lie arrayed with the panoply of
righteousness, 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 it are legion. Take
money! Often a 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 a not Uncor- mon hiding place
Tor this little surplus, which is securely
pinned between the hat frame and the lin
ing. great many women carry their
extra money in a 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. II is very amusing then. The
woman begins to hedge; says she thinks
she will wait little while before deciding.
Clerk, very much aggrieved, urges the de-
STABILITY of the goods. Woman bushes.
Clerk grows eloquent. Woman says she
Will go over to the glove counter while he
is cutting the material. Truth begins to
dawn on clerks mind and a smile on his
face. Woman disappears, not in the direc-
ton Of the glove counter. Reappears in
1--WE minutes somewhat ruflled, but solvent.
Some women carry money, particularly
car fare, IN tie palms of their hands.
Others, ho-rors! have small change be-
tween their teeth, and pay very moist
EickelS into the conductors grimy hand
HandkerchlefS are generally tucked un-
der the bottom Of the basque or between
the buttons, but one young woman OF the
writer's acquair tance always thrusts hers
up her sleeve. That is, she did until the
foorwalker in the dry goods store led her
over to the Office, under the impression
that she was shoplifting. One bright young
woman had dress waist made with wide
reverS in front. Under each revers was A
small pocket Ike a change pocket in a
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
hanckerchiefs, and found that she had lost
six inside OF two weeks. She rackcd her
brains for a rem dy. She had been in the
habit OF tuclling her square of linen or lace
under the edge of hef basque, and she
could rot think OF any other place which
wou.d be equally eligible. At last she had
an idea Sle took one Of these clasps such
as are used for holding up sleeves or hose.
and il-'sucd THAI under her basque Then
she cla-ped this o her ke-chief, and walked
serene il tie consciousness that she was in
vulnerable 50 loss.
There is iglways the shopping bag. Awk.
ward ana Uua'tr ctive IS it is, it has st,. d
most oi DIT hairs gray and otherwise. from
being brought ID sorrow to the grave. II
Is really astCrish ne, the capacity OF tins
cheerful! little things,-Ncw York sun.