RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 18

RANDOM REMINDER

PRECAUTION

The ways of women are more inscrutable than those of the mystic East It has been standard practice among journalists stuck for a story to investigate the contents of a woman’s hand-bag, usually with the permission of the owner. Broad fields of speculation are available after the inventory has bpen taken, and delightfully caustic little remarks can be made about women and their strange habits.

So when, at a little private dinner party the other evening, one of the lady guests was asked what she carried in a little purse she had inside her evening bag, the answer might have been almost anything —a membership card of the Mafia, a recipe, a Colt 45, spare stockings, a grocery list. . . . No admission by a woman of what she has in her bag or purse should really surprise. But this one did. Because she was

with her husband, to whom she had been married for almost 25 years, and they were with in-laws—just the four of them at dinner. Yet her reply seemed to put the whole structure of matrimony on shifting sands. They had seemed to have no real problems. But her reply to the question, just four simple words, gave ample food for imagination. “My taxi fare home," she said.