Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1916 — TAKING PLACE OF THE MUFF [ARTICLE]

TAKING PLACE OF THE MUFF

Many Uses for the Empty Hand® May Be Found If Women Will Look for Them.

What shall a woman do with her hands, now that she has no further use for a muff? Shall she carry a handbag, or shall she run the risk of feeling awkward and nervous through not knowing just what to do with them? Many women who are not ordinarily affected by trifles are sometimes irritated by this little problem. One young woman solves it. by becoming a student. She is seen for the first few weeks of mild weather carrying a book, magazine or newspaper, which is not heavy, but finds a use for the empty hands. At first a book is used. Then she changes to a lighter book, then to a magazine, and lastly to the newspaper. In the meantime she has been learning to carry a handbag in the hand, and not slipped over thei arm, as is generally done by those who have carried a muff. Another woman carries a bag containing embroidery, while a third is never seen without an embroidery bag or basket. These articles are not heavy, nor cumbersome, useful for the purpose to which they are put. It is always at this time that women feel shabby, even though they may have on practically new clothes, and all long for the season’s change of dress. The bright new bags, or books, serve to modify this dissatisfaction, and women who carry such things go

along in a buoyant manner, apparently free from care. There are many new artistic handbags which can be made inexpensively and changed to correspond with the costume and which could be used in this way.