The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23

IN LADY'S PURSE
Contents Boys Pockets RiValed
By Articles in Hand Bag.
Inventory Taken by Three
Reputable Business Men Here.
Topeka GIRL SOL YES MYSTERY
Nine Articles Designed to I'M
prove Her Beauty.
Most Battling Is 1920 in Bills
Found in Purse.
Topeka GIRL SOLVES MYSTERY
BY V. E. BUNDY.

Where he gets it, why he wants it.
and how he succeeds in keeping it
there, are questions on the assortment
of Junk to be found in a small boys
pockets, which have ever agitated
mothers and fathers and other inquisi-
tive persons.
But a boys pockets. as a repository
of the incongruous' the unusual, anu
the irrelevant have rival in the
form of the handbag which is the
ubiquitous adjunct of femintnity. To
few of the masculine persuasion has
been vouchsafed the privilege of tax
ing inventory of the contents or such
handbags. Mystery has forever shroud-
ed them, and until Milady suddenly
coniured from its depths some object
which would naturally have been
looked for anywhere else in the world
the handbag has been. regarded as
sort of a magic receptacle
topeka Girl Solves Mystery.
One Topeka girl, however,. minded
to solve the mystery. and finding her
vanity case intrigued the popular
fancy So highly, consented to permit
an inventory to be taken OF its con-
tents. The inventory was promptly
ordered and taken, and three reputa-
HE business men who conducted the
Investigation affirm the accuracy OF
the following list of articles FOUND
therein:
One bottle camphor,
one bottle perfume
One lip stick.
One box rouge and powder.
One nail file
One button hook.
One purse-
One comb.
One spectacle case.
One veil.
One pencil.
One stick Of gum.
One mirror. ..,,, .h
one envelope, containing receipted bills.
Two postal cards. .,,y
Two carbon copies OF letters TO MIN
One bill fold containing catiing eards ana
$40 in bills - -
One envelope of rouge
-Four postage stamps, tWo-cent denomina-
One handkerchief
Features. hands, figures. have all
been credited with being lndices OF
character and personality And
paIeontologists have learned to take a
single bone from the skeleton OF an
extinct animal, and reconstruct, with
fair accuracy, the entire animal
Even as the paieontoiogist finds
s'critter," an expert in feminfnity
might find material from which to
construct a mental conception of the
Young woman who owned the vanity
bag.
To Preserve Beauty.
F'rinstance: OF the twentythres
separate articles found therein, nine
were designed to improve or at least
to preserve, personal beauty There
fore, the young lady was good looking
and knew it. and was minded to re-
main so. She was troubled with no
aualrns as to the legitimate use Of
chemical aids to pulchritude. What
aIcl11 n
in her behalf, she accepts gratefully
Therefore, she has common sense.
He" is lucky. In addition to being
goodIooking and sensible, she really
loves him, otherwise she would not
carry his photo in a locket. But the
affection manifested by the picture
in the Iocket is tempered with most
admirable caution. Much as she loves
him. she keeps carbon copies of her
letters to him. There is probably a
strain of Scotch in her ancestry. In
cidentally, his outgoings and his in
conings will be well regulated when
he has finally married her. 1t will be
up to him to watch his step most
pointedly.
A Trace of Romance.
To some, the carbon copies would
have tainted the romance of the
locket enclosed photo. But this Is an
Anticipated and passe viewpoint. The
young woman is up to date, and wise
in her own generation. 1t is to be
hoped that he has been as judicious-
The character reading is almost as
complete as the evidences will permit.
There has been reconstructed" a
good looking. sensible, modern young
woman, with business training and
acumen. deeply. yet sane1y in love.
with a probable happy married life
looming in the near future.
The 1920 in bills is more battling
than all the other items. 1t might
indicate that the young lady was on
an extensive shopping expedition
trousseau, perhaps-or that she was
transferring her account from one
bank to another.
1t might possibly be that she was
wearing very thin and fragile ones
that day, and the natural, traditional
ands accepted means of carrying bills
was too risky.