San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-14
LATEST IN HOSIERY.
Pockets Which Are Secure from the
Highwayman's Deprodations.

Highwayman's Deprodations.
The old lady who insisted that she
wanted no safer bank for her money
than her own stocking is apparently
indicated by the latest novelty in ho-
siery.
Right on the outside Of each stocking
leg, near the top, was the cutest little
pocket, woven onto the stocking. Now,
very few women have pockets in their
dresses; at least none in their Paris
dresses. Only women with tailor-made
gowns, and black silk stripes down the
outside seams of their skirts, like Ada
Lewis, ever have enough pockets. But
the minute the woman laid eyes on
those stockings with pockets she knew
the reason why, and all aboutit.
1t didn't take a diagram to explain to
her that those pockets were made for
vaIuables. One woman promptly ex-
planned that they were intended for
women to keep stray diamonds in. She
asked:
"What highwayman would think OF
looking there for money, or what pick
pocket, even the most experienced,
would expect to have to pick & pocket in
a stocking"
The colors in which the stockings
with pockets are made lend weight to
the idea that hereafter women dressed
for the evening will not go down to din
ner and leave their stray rings and jew
els lying around upstairs for second
story burglars, but will sit down to din
ner calm in the consciousness that their
Jewels are safe in their stocking pock-
cts.
Some of the prettiest designs are in
evening colors-pale pink, cream Law
ender and blue. The pockets on these
are always of contrasting color, and
are deliberately embroidered with silk
in floral and vine designs. Around the
pocket is another inch-deep row OF en-
broidery. When a woman wears pair
of these and puts on gold garter clasps
and fills the two little pockets with rolls
of bills. she is altogether valuable.
Naturally, the woman who is accus-
toned to carry her wealth hidden in
her stockings will at once take topock-
cts in her stockings, and the only marvel
is that nobody has ever thought of the
idea before Although it is too neat an
idea to have been born anywhere but in
the brains of Connecticut Yankee, at
the same time the stockings are
stamped: Made in Germany" but the
knowing saleswomen say: They are
from Paris"
There is belief that only elderly
women and emigrants are given to Sc
curing ready cash where they can't get
at it without retiring to some secluded
corner \ woman who has been travel
ing continually declares that she got
over being astonished at the number of
cultivated women who are never sure
their money or bills of exchange are
safe except when stuffed down into
their stockings.
A very clever business woman, the
financial head and manager ola publish
ing business that clears its two partners
$4,000 each a year, never thinks of
trusting all her travelling cash to even
the inside pocket of her vest, but makes
sure she has reserve fund pinned in
side her stockings.
In all the women's parlors in railway
stations, and in the large shops, such
numbers of women are seen daily TAX
ing rolls of bills from their hosiery
hiding places that this little pocket on
the stocking manifestly fills IN ancient
want.
This pocket comes above and on the
outside of the knee. 1t is just wide
enough to hold a good roll of bills, or a
watch, or any small valuables the wear
err may want 10 protectespecially Some
of the pockets are five or six inches in
depth; others little less. The black
stockings for street wear have deeper
pockets and less elaborate decorations,
and would easily hold few thousand
dollars and couple Of moderate-sized
diamond necklaces.
The pockets are oInamented with
some droll designs. The fayorites are
a primitive likeness of the man in the
moon, very lean-looking heart pierced
with sBy-blue dart, and the third and
most catchy is woven in imitation of a
watchface, on which the hours are indi-
Gated by black numbers.-N. Y. World.
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Made His Father Disgorge.
Gen. Skobeleff, the famous Russian