The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-04

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' m.S stockings. Nothing strange
', tha. All modern women wear
!" sosiery. But these black stock
- rere like none others ever made
p,,ht on the outside of each stock
iog near the top, was the cutest
y oocket woven onto the stocking.
y very few women have pockets In
!, dresses at least. none In their
!. dresses. Only women with tailor
A gowns and biack-silk stripes
~n the outside seams OF their skirts
Ada Lewis, ever have enough pock-
put the minute the woman laid
an those stockings. with pockets.
rnev the reason why, and all about
|, Admit take a diagram to explain
mar that those pockets were made
valuables. One woman promptly
nlaped that they were intended for
Imeu 10 keep stray diamonds In. She
led: -,
[What highwayman would ever think
hooking there for money, or what
kkuOcket, even the most experienced
buld expect to pick a pocket In a
bcking?"
rbs colors in which the stockings
M rockets are made lend weight to
! idea that hereafter women dressed
the evening will not go down to din
and leave their stray rings and
pels lying around upstairs, for Sec
d.story burglars, but will sit down
dinner calm in the consciousness
N their Jewels are safe in their
cking pockets.
cme Of the prettiest of designs are
evening colors-pale pink, cream,
bender and blue. The pockets on
se are always of a contrasting color
are deliberately embroidered with
h IN floral and vine designs. Around
pocket is another inch-deep row
Embroidery. When a woman wears
balr Of these and puts on gold gar
clasps and fills the two little pock-
with rolls Of bills she is altogether
valuable to lose a limb In Brook
trolley catastrophe.
Naturally the woman who Is accus-
bed to carrying her wealth hidden
her stocking. vii! at oncs take y
fkets in her stockings, aid the only
SNel Is that nobody has ever thought
the idea before. Although 1t is too
Rt an idea to have been born any
Ge but in the brain of a Connecti-
Yankee, at the same time the
bckings are stamped, Made in Ger
bny," but the knowing saleswomen
They are from Paris"
There Is a belief that only elderly
bmsn and emigrants are given to
kreting ready cash where they can't
at it without retiring to some Sc
Fded corner. A woman who has been
fyeling continually declares that she
over being astonished at the num-
Of cultivated women who are never
fe their money or bills Of exchange
safe except when stuffed down into
Dir stocking.
A very clever business woman, the
Pancial head and manager Of a pub
Thing business that clears for its two
lrtners $4,000 each a year. never
pnks Of trusting all her travelling cash
even the inside pocket In her vest.
makes sure she has a reserve fund
hned inside her stocking.
In oil the women's parlors in rail-
40 stations and in the large shops
lch numbers of women are seen daily
klns rolls of bills from their hosiery
Ding places that this pocket on the
Cklng nils an ancient want.
Tbs pocket comes above and on the
tside OF the knee. 1t is just wide
Ough to hold a good roll of bills or
watch or any small valuables the
arer may want to protect especially.
me OF the pockets are five or six in
es In depth; others little less. The
aeR stockings for street wear have
eper pockets and less-ela borate
corations and would easily hold a few
Oasand dollars and couple of moder-
e'szed diamond necklaces.
Inc pockets are ornamented with
ne droll designs. The favorites are
primitive likeness Of the man in the
pcn' avery lean-looking heart pierced
"a sky-blue dart and the third and
w catchy Is woven In imitation of
Sa'ch face, on which the hours are
u'ca'ed by black numbers.