Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-13
WHAT HAVE YOU IN YOUR
POCKETS!

just been decided upon at a national
convention of designers, who met in
Chicago probably for the same reason
that might cause farmers convention
tc be held in Manhattan. We read that
next springs suits are to lack belts,
cuffs and pockets.
Belts have always been an affectation
of adolescence, worn by youths between
II and % and 81 and 70. A nation
which habitually goes with its coat
unbuttoned does not come naturally by
the girdled coat. Cuffs are a pest on
coats, catching dust and heat in sum
mer and snow in winter, They give the
wearer Of the cuffs that rural tailored
look.
Pockets, however, are not to be dis
missed without due preparation. If we
can help to drive the boche out of
France by going without pockets, let
every pocket die in its tracks, but let
us not delay until the last minute. 1t
will not do to wait until Easter morn
ing to accustomed ourselves to the
pccketless life.
Where shall the handkerchief go?
Not up the sleeve, even to save poster
ity from the Junker! Better to tie it
about the neck, as do the cow-punchers
in the movies. How about money?
Handbags are suggested by the style
strategists in Chicago, but nobody has
ever invented a handbag that will hang
as does a cane or umbrella, from a
mahogany rail small purse, to go
about the neck, might answer. The
commuter with arms full could reach
It with his hands.
Keys are big item. Thin them out.
That key to the fiat you left in 1915 has
no business on your ring if you are an
honest man. Why carry a motor switch
key when there is one in your car and
il is no more likely to be stolen than
the car itself. Is it necessary to carry
a key to the office, when it is notorious
that you are never there first? What
about those three keys whose function
you have forgotten long since? A real
adventurer would throw them away
and trust to Fate.
Take stock of your wallet, bullying
with everything, but currency, The
carefully folded time table, of Septem-
Der 4, 1916, has been outlawed by the
coal shortage The shooting license
behind it is two years old; you didn't
even get P rabbit. Fling away the
creased clipping advertising secret
dancing lessons; that day is past. To
the flames with the card associate
membership in the Beef Stew Club;
Mr.. Hoover might hear of it. Hand
your motor license over to your wife,
who does the driving. Keep your reg
istration card and perhaps one postage
stamp.
In committing to the fire your little
book of addresses console YOURSELF by
remembering that directories are cas-
lily found Answer the letter from the
summer hotel and pay the tire bill of
$4722 without waiting to make the
howl that you had planned. Toss aside
the sample of khaki and buy whole
suit of it. The peanut in the right hand
pocket of your coat is hardly worth
keeping until the worlds series. The
stub of pencil is an evil, for with it
you write only undecipherable mem
oranda.
Let YOUR hands. unfettered by pock-
cts, enjoy the freedom of the breeze.
Sixteen million yards of cloth must be
saved, lest civilization fall When
next the crocuses rise even the most
rheumatic may have no place to carry
a horse chestnut-New Yark Sun.
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