The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-11
CONCERNING GIRLS
and GOLD BAGS

and Guild bA6S
The Girl who likes to talk frowned
and edged away from the gold mesh
bag carelessly thrown down beside
her.
Take 1t away" she ordered. It's
a solid one, as can easily see. and It
makes me nervous to be near 1t! I'm
afraid Of their influence! Now. ! can
face a German silver gold washed one
without flinching; but run me up
against solid gold bag and begin to
get chills and fever guess 1t is be-
cause am always so overpowered by
the thought OF several hundred dollars
tied up in such small bit Of frivolity.
Nov. If owned one-if, that Is,
some relative should catch me and
bind and gag me and thrust solid
gold bag upon me by main force
think should devote the rest OF my
life to sheltering 1t and giving 1t the
reverence which was its due know
should waken in the night with a
shrek. thinking had not locked it w
in the jewel case that was in the Sc
eret drawer Of the ,im.lock safe be
hind paulocked closet door. And
know that in my waking hours |
should either Sit upon i or wear il
chained 70 ne
That Is VII; the women Who actual
~ do own solid eell bass make me 50
nervous. The minute .ou possess one
it is the correct thing 10 ac. as though
il We're the mud under Your feet or as
though You We're 20 sick Of having
them clutte.ing IN Your pathway that
YOU simply couldn't stand it another
minute! You can't belong to the clan
at all unless you learn to scatter your
bag around recklessly where people
will find il and have heart disease for
fear they won't get It back to you be
fore you have called out the police re-
serves and set them on their trail.
1T is always the people who don,
owa them who do the worrying.
Why. once know man who used
10 run around With Il sirl who owned
4 solid gold bag. and she carried i,
upon every occasion. oi course. She
used 10 drop ii between seats at the
th'atTr and remember She had done
50 when they We're tlrcr-quartcrs of
the way home. And then the man
would be Obliged to spend the rest of
the night chasing up janitors and box
office men and routing them out OF
bed and groveling under parquet seats
or travelling miles to the residence Of
the usher on that aisle and having
talk with him.
The bag always was found. Of
course, and the person finding it was
only too ticklcd TO get rid OF II and
perfectly delighted to pass ii over to
the harasscd young man. But that did
not help much at 4 or 5 or 6 o'clock in
the morning, when he was due at the
Office again at s. IT this particular
girl did not drop Il at the thcater she
would leave it on the table at the
cafe. and then, when She telcphoned
this unfortunate young man at 3 a. m.
that she had just remembered doing
SO and would he very much mind
seeing about Is. he knew he was in for
a near-riot with all the walters at that
restaurant and that he would never
dare face the naughty head waiter IN
that particular place again, even II all
the other restaurants burned up and
he had to starvc to death. Really, by
the end of the winter he was the most
popularity hated young man in town Mt
restaurants and box Offices.
Once she lost II on the suburban
train, discovering the fact when they
arose to leave. She said, Of course. he
could easily timl it, Showing her into
her front door the young man tore
back 10 the s,ation and caught the
same train on its return trip to town
and tackled the conductor, pop-cyed
With anxiety and responsibility and
hopelessness. Gold bag?' repeated the
conductor casually. 'Surc--here II is!
] picked 1t up right after you LETT
hut the unlooked-for luck was too
much CT shock for the young man
and ne gurgled and fell all In heap.
When he had quite recovered from
his illness ne went away quickly and
girl who had never In her
life owned anything more elaborate
than 1898 bargain mesh bag that
looked its price.
There was another woman with a
solid gold bag who spent her summer
a. the lake last year and who us.i TO
leave the bag on logs in the woods or
On steps when she went calling on the
no'tagers. The children, finding If on
The steps, would gleefully bury it in
their sand forts and FORGE all about
what they had done, and then for
hours all the resorters and inn esry-
ants would madly search for that bag.
When they had uprootetd all the
'hrubbery and devastated their homes
md politely accused everybody else,
md when nearly all the maids and
nurses had burst into tears and
brown up their positions, somebody |
would accidentally kick over the sand
ort and fall upon the bag with yelp
u JOY Then every one would mop
ler or his feyered brow and call for 1