Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
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BUNDLES
BY EDNA EGAN.

BU lave been greatly influenced by
ts-I lack OF men because OF the war,
and what is more, shops have
found that extensive delivery for small
hundlcs keeps up overhead expenses
and. consequently, the customer must
suffer from advanced prices.
But don't like to carry bundles"
You say; They always slide out of my
arm or the string comes of and they
q tire me SO, too" Now, this is probably
all true; just stand at the door of any
large shop, watch your fellow-passcn-
gers In the trolley or train, wait in a
public waiting room for a while and
count the few people who look as if
bundles they carry. There is a right as
we'll as a wrong way of carrying bun
dies, and the right way is just as easy
10 know as the wrong.
You see woman dragging along
with huge bundle or box on one hin
She looks ungraccful. will feel very
tired at the end of her journey, and 1,
not only going to make ono hip larger
than the other by continually doing this,
but she will strain muscles that NAV
lead to serious trouble. II would be SC
much easier if she put one of these
cheap carrier handles OH the bundle and
carried it with one hand 1t would not
fccl nearly so heavy and her arms would
not be cramped in the end.
There is nothing which makes you so
tired when shopping as a number OF
small bundles which have knack of
getting lost. You feel after stopping al
each counter and piling them up in the
crook OF your arm, like the story of the
old lady who asked everybody she met
To count her bundles to see if she had
lost any. II is an easy matter to tic
them together into whole. Any sales
girl will be glad to oblige you this way,
especially if you are going to carry your
purchases with YOU
1t seems to me" girl will sigh.
that ] always have my hands full
There are my umbrella and pockctbook
and maybe. paper and a magazine, and
when get another bundle can scarce
" get my carfare out, my hands arc so
full This girl should realize the value
OF having pocketbook with a strap and
All umbrella with loop The loop over
the arm and the strap over one hand
still leaves two hands free to grappe
with other difficulties in the shape Of
bundles and papers. 1t is these little
things that worry women into nervous
wrecks, and the solution is so easy.
Have YOU noticed how serenely man
can grasp two large handbags while YOU
arc debating whether to hand your ono
suitcase. to the porter? One heavy bit
of baggage is indeed big proposition
ior woman. She should take the mans
example and divide the weight into two
bags which balance. In this way she
can carry even more and not feel the
burden half so much.
There is an art in doing up bundles
which arc to be carried, too. The small.
bulky bundle will be awkward and get
~ cvcrybodys way, where the larger
Fat bundle can be carried with case.
Tic string tightly and firmly, then there
will be no danger OF the bundle wrie-
CLING out OF its wrapplngs or swapping at
crucial moment. II you are forced to
carry an 'unsightly bundle not Of your
own doing up. it is good plan to fold
coat or wrap over it,
Now all this may seem at first thought
to be far cry from talk on health
aud beauty, but it is not There is
nothing beautiful, surely, in a woman
struggling along under ill-managcd bur
dens Why should so many women re-
lusc to carry parcels if they did moi
consider them unsightly and if it did not
make them lircdf Tired shopping
nerves come as much from crainpcd
arm muscles a, anything else. and who
can be beautiful or healthy when she is
nervous and tired out?