CARELESS WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 10

CARELESS WOMEN.

LOSE MOIiE ARTICLES THAN MEN. "Women are infinitely movo caxe.lcso Until men in llio manner in which' tliej lose their personal belongings." This statement was mado by a number of business people in the West End of London recently. . In Berlin somo littlo time apro 1000 articles were collected ill an hour whicta. :;<id been lost by women whilst shopPing- . . "Our women customore Rive us endless troublo through their .carplos.sncss, said 0110 representative of a largo drapery nn. "In many 'largo establishments shopwalkers aro specially told off to ask customers not to place their bags- and purses on the counter if they aro seen doing 5o; and to sco that 'purses, etc., are not left behind when their owners leave tho shop, or go on to other departments. "For instance, .many customers will leavo their bags containing season tickets, purees, keys,' and' many other articles, on a staircase where.' millinery is arranged, and will rush with a hat up tho stains into tho showroom to try it on, forgetting all about their , bags. ' * '"''J umbrellas "'-we left d.uriiig tho day. lhey form . the major portion of personal possessions, left .behind." "Women are very careless, much moro so than men,' said a, representative of a liond Street firm. . . "They always seem to bo thinking of something olso other than their actions of tho immediate moment, and frequently leave articles they have just purchased on the counter when they go out of tho shon, in addition to purses, tickets, and umbrellas.