The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
WOMEN WHO STEAL.
They Appropriate Small Articles While
Out Shopping.

Ahoy appropriate small Articles w lille
Out shopping.
When man appropriates unto himself
something which does not belong to
him it is generally something well
worth the taking, while a woman in
taking possession of another's property
usually takes something entirely val
ueless and not worth the risk run. At
least that is the publicly expressed
opinion of good many men.
Last winter when the cafeterias and
! help-yourself lunch rooms were opened
the proprietors were Mortified to find
that whenever a shortage of cash oc-
Cured it could in nine cases out of ten
be traced to a woman. The ones who
! would thus commit petty theft would
simply eat their lunch and help them
selves to a check fifteen or twenty-five
cents smaller than it should be, and sail
out in the most digniied manner. At sev-
! eral cafeterias number of women have
been requested to bestow their patron
age elsewhere, while one of the best
'help-yourself" lunch rooms, which was
! centrally located, was compelled,
through the unusually large number
of women who frequented it and neg
| lected to pay the amount due. to finally
close its doors.
The women in charge of the comfort
able reception and toilet rooms which
! most of the large Office buildings and
dry goods stores possess nowadays are
at their wits ends to find some means
by which soap may be kept. Many of
the firms have their name stamped in
full on the cakes, but this seems, how
ever, to have no effect; the soap goes
just the same. In many of the toilet
rooms ordinary bath soap is used,which
is cut in small cubes, but even this does
not save it, for it, too, slips away.
Women who, though well provided
with this worlds goods and who GER
tainly should know better, have been
heard to boast that they never buy
towels, but keep their linen closet sup
piled with pieces from the hotels at
which they stop and from the sleeping
cars in which they have Travelled, and
will laughingly tell how each one was
obtained. The pilfering of towels FROM
sleeping cars is decidedly the meanest
mode of all, as the porter of the car is
compelled to pay for all missing linen,
the same being counted before his trip
and also at the return, when he must
produce the original number of pieces,
either soiled or clean. The salaries Of
these men are exceedingly small, and
the payment for few dozens of lost"
| towels makes quite hole in their earn
ings.
A society girl was lately heard to
boast that she had the largest collection
of souvenir spoons she had heard of.
On being requested to show them she,
entirely unabashed, produced a case in
which reposed dozens of spoons which,
on being examined, showed the names
of well-known hotels, dining cars and
soda fountains. They were of not the
slightest use to the girl and nothing
could convince her that she had really
stolen them, as they were only
spoons"
A very amusing story is told on 4
woman who visited a cereal exhibit.
She was we'll dressed and had an air of
responsibility. On leaving one of the
counters she suddenly exclaimed that
some one was picking her pocket. Her
pocket being examined, she discovered
the spoons she was trying to take were
tied to the counters by strings. Dur
! ing the laugh which followed she made
an escape.
In these petty thefts women certainly
are worse then men, though probably
not one of them would steal money,
however good the opportunity. Men, it
is said, never do such things, and yet
recently in London a well-known club
submitted a proposition to the club
committee to pass rule prohibiting any
person from leaving the building with
more than one umbrella or overcoat in
his possession. Forks and spoons are
continually disappearing, soap evap-
CRATES in the most mysterious manner,
and newspapers walk away with read
ers who could well afford to buy them,
but who prefer to pilfer. Matters have
reached such crisis that the financial
officer of the club has been debarred
from cashing checks which exceed TWEEN
ty-five dollars in amount, it being adj
MISSILE to draw that sum once week
only. This state of affairs is said to
arise from most of the clubs being finan-
cially embarrassed and opening their
doors indiscriminately to new menu
bers, and incidentally to new money.
Something should be done, though
what it is hard to say, to show and i'm
press upon these particularly con-
temptible thieves the enormity of their
sins.-Chicago Tribune.
She Received with Her Bonnet On.
The late Empress Augusta of Ger
many, when she received at her castle
those guests not well known to her,
invariably appeared before them in a