THE HUSTLE BAG.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 177, 21 April 1908, Page 3

THE HUSTLE BAG.

Best of all. the .bags-in our apartment, where we must, always be ready to receive, is what, is called my "hustle bag" (writes a woman,'in an American family paper). Be it known first that, a cautious childhood broke us all of ,tlio habit of ever, ever putanything .in bureau drawers except what, belonged there, and in its proper way and place. So, between a nurtured New England conscience and a respectable desire to shine in tho eye of sisters-in-law, I long ago provided myself with, a very large and gcrgeous poppy-patternad, india. silk bag. something , and I'm in a hurry. Hoop-la! Into that "blessed bag" go the samples not yet looked over, the gloves to be returned, my sfaepy time book, pocketbook, belts, .ribboi s,' collars-all that olla podrida which collects when one's back is turned and which; rainy aches to creep ' into tho top bureau drawer and sometimes seems fairly possessed of feet to crawl there. Then the JNew iMigJand conscience provides that as soon as the guest is gone, or the active necessity over, it must bo emptied out and properly disposed of. ( Mrs. Humphrey . Ward is expected to bo in America tins month.' She will be the guest of her niece, Mrs. Whitridge, of New York Mrs-Ward is the president of tho Society oF Woman' Journalists in England. Her views on the- woman question (says an American journal which advocates women's suffrage) are eccentric. She was n warm advocato of the bill passed by Parliament last year making wonien eligible as mayors, aldermen and town and county councillors, and she thinks it is natural for women to exercise municipal suffrage as to breathe, but she is opposed to tho Parliamentary vote for women. She and Marie Corelli arc said to be tho only English literary women of prominence who are "Antis." Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, an American bride, added to all tho invitations for hor wedding, " Please omit, gifts." This new departure (says tho Boston journal which chronicles it) is being generally, praised by the papors.