Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-15
PlTIFuL PooKETLess WOMAN.
To What Shifts Is She Put to Carry Safe
Her Purse ard Handkerchief.


To What Shifts Is She Put to Carry Safe
Her Purse ard handkerchief.
II human beings were classified accord
ing to their most striking peculiarities the
fair sex of this period would surely be
called ''the pocketless woman"
Plain sheath skirts are all very fine,
but it never entered into the folds of
bell skirt to afford a hiding place for
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 and pathetic.
When u 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 be 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 u 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 not uncommon hiding place
for this little surplus, which is securely
pinned between the hat frame and the hin
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
1t were. 1t is very amusing then. The
woman begins to hedge; says she thinks
she will wait a little while before deciding.
Clerk, very much aggrieved, urges the de-
sirability 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-
tion of the glove counter. Reappears in
five minutes somewhat rufIled, 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 un-
der the bottom of the basque or between
the buttons, but enc young woman of the
writer's acquaintance always thrusts hers
up her sleeve. That is, she did until tho
hoorwalker in the dry goods store led her
over to the office, under the impression
that she was shoplifting. One bright young
woman had a dress waist made with wide
revers in front. Under each revers was a
small pocket like change pocket in
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 enc day she counted her
handkerchiefs, and found that she had lost
six inside of two weeks She racked her
brains for a 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,
ana fastened that under her basque. Then
she clasped this to her kerchief, and walked
serene in 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 things-New York Sun.