Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-04
pIrlfuL pocKErLess WOMAN.
To what shifts l. She Put TO Carry SAT
Her Purse and Handkerchief

To What shifts Il She Put to Carry Safe
Her Purse and Handkerchief
II human beings were classified accord.
ing to their most striking peculiarties che
fair sex OF this period would surely be
called "the pocyetless woman"
Plain sheath skirts are all very fine,
but It never entered into the folds OF a
bell skirt TO afford hiding place for O
pocket
Nevertheless there are certain articles
which must be carried, pocket or nc
pocket, and the ways OF doing this, which
are devised by most women, are both
ludicrous and pathetic.
When a woman starts out shopping on
visiting, or on any errand, there are sew.
eri.l articles which It behooves her 10 carry
In the first place every well meaning WON
an likes TO have a handkerchief concealed
somewhere about her person, and, further
more, IL doesn't make much dIerenc,
whether she bo 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 n
which women meet Il are legion. Take
money! Often woman has more thar
she Is absolutely certain TO need, ant
knowing full well by dire experiences tn,
manifold dangers which attend her pocket
less condition, she slows IL away in diver
and sundry places.
The hat * "A not uncommon hiding plac,
for this little surplus, which Is securely
pinned between the hat frame and the lin
ing. A great many women carry thei
extra money in a small bag placed inside
their dress waists. Others wear band,
about their waists, as did the miners In
tho old California days. Others select
their stockings and still others their shoe,
as repositories OF wealth. These women
are always making some purchase which
oyerdriws the cash they have in sight a,
II We're, II is very amusing then. Tn,
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 20 over to tue glove counter while he
Is cutting the material, Truth begins Ia
dawn on clerks mind aud smile on hi,
face. Woman disappears, not In the direc.
ton OF the glove counter. Reappears in
nye minutes somewhat rufiled, but solvent
some women carry money, particularly
car fare, in the palms OF their hands
Others, hororsl have small change be-.
tween their teeth, and pay very MOST
hlcktls INTO the conductors grimy hand
hanakerchiefs are generally tucked un.
uer the bottom Of the basque or between
the buttons, but one young woman Of the
writer's acquaintance always thruats hers
up her sleeve. That Is, she did until the
hoorWalker In the dry goods store led ne,
over TO the olioe, under the impression
that she WIS shoplifting One bright Young
woman mad dress waist made with vida
reyers In front Under each rever. vss n
small pocket like "A change pocket In a
mans Waistcoat
One Of these was sacred 10 the use NJ a,
yer aud the other 10 paper money Tint
girl was happy for awhile. Her monev
was safe. But one day she counted me-,
handkerehiefs, and found that she had LOST
six inside Of two weeks She raokcd he,
brains for remedy. She had been In ths
habit OF tucking her square OF linen or locs
under the edge OF her BASQUE ana sbs
could not think OF any other Mace which
would be equally eligible. Al Inst shs bsd
an idea. She took one OF these elasns sucb
as are used for holding up sleeves or bose
and Fastened that under her basnua Tbor
she elasped this 10 her kerohief. and wall ed
serene In the consciousness that she va HI
vulnerable to loss
there Is always the shopping bag Awk
WAN ana unattraetiye as 1t Is, Il has saved
most OF our hairs gray and otherwise. from
oeihs brought In sorrow TO the grave. n
= realty astonishing, the capacity OF the
sheeiiai little things--New York Sun.