Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — Undisturbed Femininity. [ARTICLE]

Undisturbed Femininity.

“Women may be catty in little things, yet they have a childlike trust in each other’s honesty,” said the man. “If they hadn’t they could never have Sat serenely through the situation that faced several of them the other night at the opera. I had a balcony seat. Beside me sat a woman who discovered, at the end of the first act, that she had lost her purse. She thought it had slipped to the seat in front. The woman occupying that seat stood up, shook her wraps and looked under the seat, but couldn’t find the purse. “ ‘Still, it may be here some place,’ she said. ‘My own bag has slipped down to the seat in front of me. I’ll get it when the opera is over.’ “Then other women began to hunt for handbags and purses that had fallen. Some found them, others didn’t. But nobody seemed to mind. They had a perfect faith that the things would turn up later and settled back tranquilly for the second act. Imagine a lot of men letting their purses lie around like that.”