Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — Daggers for Women. [ARTICLE]

Daggers for Women.

Tewelers’ Chronicle. A prominent jeweler says he sells t number of daggers annually to women. These are not ornaments out serious weapons. They are just arge enough to slip easily inside a woman’s gown. Some women have :hese made to order, when they are avishly adorned and incrusted with orecious stones. They are frequently carried in traveling, when they ire intended as weapons of defense. They are preferred to revolvers, which are likely to go off summarily ind in the wrong direction.