St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-05
MRS. GEORGE G. POWER HAS
HER SHOPPING BAG SNATCH
o.4 ED FROM HER
BY,A BRIGHT LOOKING BOY,
WHO DISAPPEARED WITH HIS
TREASURE AS SPEEDILY AS
POSSIBLE.
VALUABLE GOLD WATCH.
Things That Were Car
ried Off

George Eliot. used to say that
women with a fair, clear complex
ion always impress men as being in
nocent. Mrs. George c. Power, wife
of the assistant cashier of the Mer-
chants National bank, and residing
at No. 10 Kenwood Terrace, is in a
position to state that George Eliot's
rule is an absolute failure when ap-
piled to boys. Mrs. Power met a boy
Tuesday morning. This boy had
charming compleXion-clear and rosy
tinted. He also had bright blue eyes,
curly brown hair and a sweet eX-
preston. 1t seemed, to Mrs. Power,
that he could not help being a good
boy. But he took Mrs. Powers shop
ping bag and her watch and her
purse and her SIG and several other
things that were hers. He took
them suddenly, and ran away He
hasn't come back. Perhaps he will
never return.
About II a. m. Mrs. Power started
down town. She had no more pockets
than other ladies. But she had a
place for everything. That place was
her shopping bag, and everything
was in it's place. The shopping bag
had no handle. This, however, was
not an oversight, for the bag dis
played long black silk ribbon by
which i. it could be towed around.
Mrs. Power usually wraps the pretty
ribbon around one hand when she
goes shopping. But it's tedious
proceeding to attach ones self Sc
curely to property by this process.
The walks were slippery, and Mrs.
Power deferred the Delaying of her
main shopping sheet. so to speak,
until she could cast anchor in a secure
harbor free from ice. So she simply
held the shopping bag loosely by it's
string in the same hand with her
muff, the end of her boa, her hand
kerchief, her other glove and Incl
dentalS crowded out of the bag.
She had just passed out from under
the shelter of the great stone entrance
to the Terrace, an entrance to each
side of which are attached massive
iron lanterns of medieval workman
ship The low and deliberate creak-
ing of the dignified lanterns gave a
sense of "halloWed precincts" and pro-
tected security. Besides, the bright
sunlight, the cheerful reflection of the
newly fallen snow and the Well-bred
silence which hung over all this re-
spectacle Observation-Disclosures un-
marred by even the rattle of a vulgar
butchers cart-soothed the slightest
apprehension that might have crossed
Mrs. Powers mind as to the safety Of
her treasures at the end of their string.
And two sweet young boys were just
coming down the street. Their faces
were subdued yet smiling. Both were
about sixteen years old. One was in
the street, for the average sidewalk
is too narrow when boy has the
whole world before him. The other
boy happened, accidentally, to be upon
the sidewalk. He was by far the nicer
of the two. His alluring countenance
has been already mentioned. He was
handsomely dressed in blue REFER
jacket, blue trousers, blue cloth cap.
He looked at his companion as Mrs.
Power drew near. The companion
winked. Then the pretty boy cast
down respectfully his bright blue eyes,
when he encountered Mrs. Power. She
felt a little jerk among her handful
of things. The pretty boy was run
ming away, and the shopping bag, at
the end of it's string, was floating be-
hind him. He turned through the Ter
race entrance, passing Immediately
under the majestic lanterns, which had
SO ingloriously failed in their guardian
ship. The boy was. going very fast,
and Mrs. Power did not attempt to
follow him. She expressed her sur
prise that boy with such fair face
should actually steal, and expressed
it in a rather startled voice. Then she
turned to the boys companion, who
was slowly following the other one
The second youth didn't stop to ex-
plain, but only muttered that he did
MT know nothin' bout tother feller.
Jess met him up street" The two
boys disappeared down Osceola ave-
nue., seeking sequestration upon the
flats below the bluff.
Mrs. Powers gold watch had an
open face and was valued because of
associations. If she gets it back, she
will never look at it's little white face
without 'refecting ON the malignity of
fair-faced boys.