The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-03
WOMEN ARE FORGETFUL.
They Are Apt TO Leave Their POcI>-
ctbOOl1S in Stores.
From an Exchangt

If there is anything that a woman Is
more likely to do than to lay her pocket
book down somewhere in a dry goods
store and go off and leave it is to have a
powder rag, a postage stamp, some ones
address, some samples and three nches
in that pocketbook.
That a woman win lose her pocketbook
before she wears it out is what the vul-
gar call a "lead-pipe cinch" Under ordi-
nary circumstances, a woman is more
systematic and more careful about her
small belongings than man. but when
she gets into a dry goods store she gets
e~aited. and loses all her pristine careful
ness. She usually hangs on to her pock-
etbook until she has spent all her money
eXcepi enough for a soda water and car
fare home, and then she lays ii down and
goes to looking at things that she can't
buy. When she has drunk the soda wa
ter and starts to pay for it, she misses
her pocketbooK, and after a series of oh
mys,' and what shall l do?" she clev-
erly stands the soda water man off and
goes and hunts her husband up and makes
him pay her way home
This propensity on the part of lively
woman is an annoyance to big dry goods
houses They have to establish regular
Docketbooks that are left around the
stores Very few of them are ever call
ed for, but another peculiar fact is that
If one book was not cared for. the owner
of that one would he down the next day
explaining that she Just laid It down for
a moment and that some one must have
taken it."
Some of the women have an implicit
confidence in mankind. This class is
largely unmarried. They are very few,
however. \ manager of a large dry goods
house told yesterday of a woman who left
her pocketbook. containing $500 and a
diamond ring, on the counter. He hap
pened to find It, and put ii in the safe,
and wrote to the lady, asking her if she
had lost anything. She replied that she
had not lost anything. It left my pocket
book in your store, but | knew il would be
all right And she didn't call for it for
Two days. She was of an extraordinary
type. man could sell her gold brick
by sample
While women have a fad for losing their
pocketbook, very few of them lose their
teeth while out shopping. Such an in
stance occurred Saturday, however. A
clerk in one of the large department
houses found a set of teeth handsomely
mounted on gold plate, on the floor of
the COAX department. They await a
claimant, who has probably missed them
ere this.
Nheh contents are considered, a bows
pocket is not in it with a Woman's pocket
book. More things that seem to be use
less can be found in a wOman's pocketbook
than an industrious small boy could ac-
cumulate conveniently There IS one
thing which the woman say is useful
which is almost sure to be found there,
and that is-a powder rag
An examination of the contents of mock
etbooks awaiting owners in one dry goods
store revealed a remarkable list of be-
| longings.
one pretentiods book contained: A
chiid's car ticket, a string Of gold beads
and three-quarters of yard of gold
fringe.
In another was found a piece of red
cIoth' Two powder rags and three nickols.
An alligator-skin book had three nickels
and a receipted dentists bill in it.
Another yielded three nickels ana a pow
der rag.
a couple of tickets for shoe shines.
A handsome silver trimmed bool, had
nothing at all in it,
sun another contained a 81 bill. sample
| of silk and a powder rag.
An austere looking back book Welded
% cents in nickels, a Columbian postage
stamp a broken cuff button and a broken
| veil in it; also a powder bag
Another had a wdd Of torn lace and \
! stamp aud. three nckes in it,
A stylish looking book contained call
| endar a powder rag. a picture of a man
with whiskers, prescription and sam
! pie of dress goods.
! In a brand new Morocco were TWENTY
! three pennies, dime and a powder rag.
! one book contained nothing but a note
/ in masculine handwriting torn into shreds
/ and showed into one of the pockets.
powder rag comprised the entire con-
/ tents of one book.
In another were a Doctors address. 40
! cents, a broken comb. a powder rag. a
| 2-cent stamp and an address
pocketbook which looked as though
| 1T belonged TO a business woman had in
| 1T TWO street car checks. a registered let
! ter receipt, card OF a dry goods house.
| a telegraph receipt ana some headache
! tablets. There was no powder rag in this
one.
There were a whole lot more books. but
! they all turned out about the same list
! Of belongings with the powder rag ana
the three uickels and the 2-cent postage
stamp in evidence more than any other
| articles.