NO PLACE FOR A PURSE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 15

NO PLACE FOR A PURSE.

A case just decided in the lowa Supreme Court further complicates one of the most serious problemo of the feminine life. A Mrs. McNaiighton cued a railway company for damages. Her case was that Eho had slipped down the stairs of tho railway station while trying to get her purse. As the purse wad kept in her stocking, the Court was called on to decide ■whether it Was in its proper" place. The verdict it gave was that stockings were not for this purpose. So Mrs. McNaughton loses her action, and shows her sex how the law cuts off feminine privileges. Wo did not know before, but now we heai that eroeiing purses have been recognised, if not of fashion, at leaEt by gome fashionable shops. The American lady is by no means a pioneer. Her failure becomes tho more grievous. When stockings fail, what will the women do with.. their pxirees? Thieves snatch them if they carry t\\em in their hands. Accidents on railway stations and in Courts of law happen if they deposit them in their stockings. One after anothw tho most cunning devices are proved inconvenient. The day seems^ to be closely approaching — 'though wp make ' no prophecy — when women will be driven to havo pocketc It is shocking* to think of. — St. Jam,es"s Bud{jet.

Our littlo boy ate ealfc mackerel for the first timo thoi other morning. "Where does thess fish come from. — tha lake?" ho asked, after the first bite. "No, from the ocean," answered his father. "Gee!" said Benny, "I don't wonder the ocera's salty!"