The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-05
THE STEALING FAD.
society and Club Women of Chicago
Have a erase for Pilfer-
ing Souvenirs.

.Kleptomania," remarked we'll
known club and society woman OF Chi
cago not long ago, ''is decidedly over
worked word, and stealing an ugly one.
But the present fad or fancy for col
lecting lucky souvenirs'-abstracting
them ptitiously from the houses
of your friends and acquaintance
surely partakes of the character OF one
or both.
IA year or two ago the fad began.
A popular Chicago woman remarked
one day to an intimate friend:
"'Oh, my dear, did you know that
have begun to collect souvenirs Tor
.uck. They do say and she laughed as
women do when not quite sure OF the
approval of their consciences, that 70
steal souvenir brings one the best OF
tuck. So I borrowed with another
nervous ripple of laughter, the tiny
statue which stood upon your library
table
.vThe woman of whom the statue had
been borrowed felt like remonstrat-
ing in no gentle terms, for that statue
had a souvenir value to her as we'll, anu
she really cherished 1t. But the bor-
rover was an old and well-loved friend.
She was taken by surprise, and hardy
knew how to act, so she let the matter
pass in silence. Perhaps by this time
she has begun to collect souvenirs in
this manner herself, for the fad seems
to have spread fast and furiously, ana
about seven out of every ten people
whom one meets are afflicted with it,.
"Yes," declared another Chicago
woman who has wide and varied ac-
ouaintance, "I'm sorry to say 1t, but 1t
is growing actually unsafe to expose
anything pretty which has no exces-
siye commercial value In Chicago
Women take whatever they fancy un-
der the cover of the new lucky SOU
yenir' fad, and although they seldom
abstract anything of great cost OF
worth. all manner Of dainty and sim
y ple things with which the average
woman surrounds herself disappear
constantly. I had little silver paper
knife, for instance, which cost only
couple Of dollars, but which had beer
given me by dear friend, and one day
I saw woman Of my acquaintance
who is suffering severely from thu
new fancy eyeing 1t with admirinE
plances. 7 feared for its safety, bu7
could not we'll remark upon the inten
tions of which / suspected her. Wher
she came to leave, however, she calml,
} picked up the knife and slipped 1t int
the front of her waist.
"Lucky souvenir, my dear she tol'
me carelessly, although she really hat
! the grace to blush little, and it,
so pretty that shall enjoy it doubly
eyes I responded, little pointed
ly, 4 notice the pretty things ar
usually chosen for the so-calle'
'lucky souvenirs" I've lost few sue
trifies myself
"'Well,' she answered, blushing
little more, when you come to M,
; house you must help yourself to some
j thing, too And so the matter ended
4 But it's an outrageous fad, in my opiI
ion, and the women who indulge in Il
like the college boys who used to bea
d away your prettiest and most CHEZ
h ished stick pins and fans before you
). eyes, apparently consider that to tax
o thing in plain sight, or, if they q
n not this, to tell you of it afterwart
O quite straightens the matter out, bot
socially and morally. y."-Chicago Trul
une