Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1911 — What a Woman Carries in Her Handbag Makes a Man Laugh. [ARTICLE]

What a Woman Carries in Her Handbag Makes a Man Laugh.

They used to talk about the vast number pf thinra a boy carried in hia trousers’ pocket. Some one wrote a poem about it and it was spoken in every town in the country. But even the old fashioned boy has been supplanted in respect to the variety and number of things he kept in his pocket by the modern woman with a handbag. Recently The Republican received a letter from a woman living not far away, asking if any one had brought her lost handbag to this office. And she opened up her heart and told us what was in it Here Is the list: A ladies’ gold watch, some small change, a belt pin, a handkerchief, powder box and powder, a pow der rag, a perfumery bottle, a hand mirror and a small glass, a lead pencil, a small purse, a sample of red cloth, a barrette, several hair pins, a small paper of pins, a few fancy headed pins in a piece of cloth, a pair of glasses In a case, a piece of chamois skin, a broken bracelet and a pair of slightly worn kid gloves. Surely the modern woman and her handbag has made the pocket of the old fashioned hoy look like a sideshow. This lady’s lost treasure was not brought *to this offlee, if found, and we imagine it mfist -have tfeen picked up by some old bachelor, who did not realize that there was anything of value in it and probably threw it into the river. To the unfortunate woman, however, the loss will be great, and it will be just like starting up housekeeping again to replace the hand bag and its many valuable contents.