Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Varieties of Handkerchiefs. [ARTICLE]

Varieties of Handkerchiefs.

George 11. expected his daughters to be satisfied with two dozen cambric handkerchiefs every other year. A modern novelist gives one of his heroines twelve dozen as a part of her wedding outfit. A few years ago plain handkerchiefs for the morning and the laced ones for the evening were all the variety required, but a French authority now says there should be handkerchiefs for morning toilets, for evening, for opera, for visits of charity, and for boudoir use, to say nothing of the handkerchief to be lost, the one to be given away and the one to be allowed to be stolen. Cynthia. Boardman, of Cleveland, has had eight other legal names, her succession of husbands reaching tjhat number.