The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-03-09
FOIL FOR FooTPADS.
Chicago Women Have nm Intricate
system OF Three Money
Purses.

Raids by footpads have given the
women of Chicago the habit of carry
ing three purses or money receptacles
about with them these days. One OF
these purses is merely decoy pocket
book, large, handsome, silver-mounttd
very frequently, and which contains
merely few samples and some folded
papers which are intended to simulate
small bills. This pocketbook is carried
in the hand or mutf, according to the
time-honored and much-ridiculed fash.
ion. The second purse, generally a
coin purse of silver, leather or woven
silllen thread, hangs about the neck
by a long chain. or is Garfield in the
little outer pocket of the jacket. This
purse contains, as a rule, just sufficient
money for car fare and small change
TO be expended upon that particular
expedition. and but little actual cash
would be sacrificed were the whole
thing lost. The third receptacle borne
about by the average woman is the
receptacle for the money and valuables
concerning which the fair owner is
really anxious, and its location is
known only to herself. Frequently,
/ also, it may be said, the wCman most
| Interested in knowing its whereabouts
is quite ignorant of them. 1t often
| happens that all remembrance of the
particular place of hiding chosen for
certain day or trip is lost between
the time of the hiding and the neces-
sity for using the money. Even when
| the place of seclusiun il not forgotten
it is often very difficult to reach, and
amusing and ridiculous scenes are
often witnessed in the stores and rail
way depots, and so on, because of this
feminine weakness of memory. Oc-
casionally. too, the struggles of the
woman who has bought things and
wishes to pay for them are so mighty
and eventful as to completely surpass
all similar efforts of the much-derided
lost-pocket time which almost every
woman remembers. The woman who
can unfailingly and with surety find
her money bag these days at any time
when she needs it is regarded as a sort
of feminine Napoleon Of finance by
her less fortunate and genius-gifted sis
ters.
No woman nowadays-and let all
footpads take careful heed of this fact
carries her money or valuables in
any of the old-time hidiug-places. just
where she does tuck it away nobody
in all the " world knows excepting herself
and the few dear and intimate friends
whom she let's into the secret. And
by this new carefulness lovely woman
has. it may reasonably be expected
dealt deathblow to the footpad in
dustry as far as the gentler sex is con
cerned.
II should be very glad TO give yoU
all the money | have about me-" GER
tain society woman of this city is re
ported to have remarked tremblingly
to the footpad who recently demanded
a sacrifice at her hands, III | could only
find it. But | hid it about me some
where this morning before | started
out and I've had to do my shopping
c. o. ID. all day because l couldn't re
member where it was
The frightened woman saved he
money, and through all the laughte
and fun-making which has fallen to he
share since she innocently related tn,
experience, she has been comforted b,
the knowledge that in her forgetfulnes
sne is by no means alone.-Chicago in
ter Ocean.