Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-05
rlFuL PockgTLess WOMAN.

hat Shifts Is She Put TO Carry Safe
uer PursO and Handkerchief.
lipnsn beings were classified accord
their most striking peculiRrities the
~ Of this period would surely be
the pocketleaa wOnI-n."
b sheath SKIRTS are all very fine,
never entered into the folds Of n
kirt to afford hiding place for o
ortheless there are certain articles
must be carried, pocket or nc
Z, and the ways OF doing this, which
ovised by most women, are both
ops and pathetic.
fn a woman starts out shopping o.
ng, or on any errand, there are sew
rticles which Il behooves her to carry
hrst place every well meaning won
- 10 have a handkerchief concealed
fhere about her person, and, further
~ doesn't make much dilfcrenc.
ier she DO arrayed with the panoply oil
sQnsness, but she must carry at least
fare.
3 Is the very simplest way In which
aeo presents itself. But the ways Ia
|Ywomen meet IL are legion. Take
VI Often "A woman has more thar
q absolutely certain TO need, and
ing full well by dire experiences the
DID dangers which attend her pocket
ohditioE, she slows it away in divers
ondry places.
bat is not uncommon hiding place
|nE little surplus, which is securely
| 4 between the hat frame and the lin
a great many women carry then
money In a small bag placed inside
Dress Wrists. Others wear bands
their waists, as did the miners IN
~ California days. Others select
bookings and still others their shoes
Histories OF wealth. These women
Ways making some purchase which
aws the cash they have in sight, as
~ II 10 very amusing then. The
y begins TO hedge; says she thinks
wait a little while before deciding.
very much agglieved, urges the de
Ny OF the goods. Woman bushes
frows eloquent. Woman says she
lover to the glove counter while he
'ng the material Truth begins u
q clerks mind and \ smile On hE
Woman disappears, not in the direc.
the glove counter. Reappears ia
in1tes somewhat ruhled, but solvent.
"a women curry money, particularly
orc, ia the palms OF their hands.
~ horrors have small change be.
their teeth, and pay very moist
into the conductors grimy hand.
hkerohieis are generally tucked un.
y bottom Of the basque or batween
tttons, but ono young woman OF the
rs acquaintance always thrusts hers
sleeve, That Is. she did until the
alker in the dry goods store led hei
" the office, under the impression
be WAS shoplifting, One bright Young
b had dress waist made with wide
IN front Under each reyers was a
pocket like a change pocket ia a
waisfooat
Of these was sacred 10 tho use Of sill
q the other 70 paper money. That
pas happy for awhile. Her money
ie. But one day she counted hei
erchiefs, and found that she had last
Side Of two weeks. She racked her
tor a remedy She had been In the
pa tuclIilq her SQUARE Of linen or lace
NE edge Of her basque, and she
not think Of any other place which
hs equally eligible. Al last she had
She took one Of these clasps such
used for holding up sleeves or hose
atened that nader her basque. Then
sped this 70 her kernhief, and walked
N the consciousness chat she was Ia
retie 70 loss.
2 2 always the shopping bag. Awk
'ad nnattraetiye as q Is, Il has saved
I our hairs, gray and otherwise, from
9rouEht y sorrow 70 the grave 1t
3 astonishing. the capacity 81 Tx
81 ils.e thihss, New York sun.