Arizona silver belt., 1895-11-23
PETTY PILFERING.
Small Thefts Committed by wom-
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Members of tho Fair Sex Who Purioh Trifes from Public Piacos-Some of Them Boast Openly of Their
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 When man appropriates unto himself something which does not belong to him it is generally something well worth the taking, while Q woman in taking possession of anothcrs property usually takes something entirely val ueless and not worth the risk run. At least that is the publicly expressed opinion of a good many men.
 Last winter when the cafeterias and hclp-yourself lunch rooms were opened the proprietors were mortified to find that whenever 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 check fifteen or twenty-five cents smaller than it should be, and sail out in the emostdignilied manner. Atsey- cral cafeterias number of women have been requested to bestow their patron age elsewhere, while one of the best "help-yourself" lunch rooms, which twas 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 it's doors.
 The women in charge of the comfort able reception and toilet rooms which most of the large office buildings aud dry goods stores possess nowadays are at their wits ends to find some meuus 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 cer- 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, ard win laughingly tell how each one was obtained. The pilfering of towels from sleeping ears is decidedly tho 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 hc must produce the original number of pieces, either soiled or clean. The salaries of these men arc exceedingly small, and the payment for Q 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 10 show them she. entirely unabashed, produced case in which reposed dozens of spoons which, on being examined, showed the names of well-lnown hotels. dining ears and soda fountains. They were oI uoJ Jic slightest use to the girl and nothing could convince her that she had really stolen them, as they were "only spoons"
 X very amusing story is told on al woman who visited cereal exhibit. She was well dressed and had an air of responsibility. On leaving oEc oG the counters she suddenly exclaimed tbat some one wus picking her pocket. Her pocket being examined, she discovered the spoons she was trying to take were tied to the counters by stIiEos. Dur ing the hugh which followed she made. aa escape
 In these petty thefts women certainly ire worse then men, though probably not one of them would steal money, however good the opportunity. Men, t is said, never do such things. and yet recently in London a wcll-kuown club submitted proposition to the club committee to passarulc prohibitingany person from leaving the building with more than one umbrella or uyercoat in his possession. Forks and spoons are continually disappearing, soap eyap- crates in the most mysterious manner, and newspapers walk away with read CTS who could well afford to buy them, Lut who prefer to piIfer Matters have reached such crisis that the financial officer of the club has been dcba~rcd from cashing checks which exceed twcn- 1 ty-iive dollars in amount, it being ad- missible to draw that sum once a week only. This state of affairs is said to arise from most of the clubs being fnan- cIally embarrassed and opening their doors indiscriminately to new mem- bers, and incidentally to new money. Something should be done, though what it is hard to say, to show and inn press upon these particularly con tcmptible thieves the enormity of their sins.-Chicago Tribune.
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