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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

1!' there (should be ;i further boom in the toy dog pet craze the A\ esteru Australian desert should prove a small HI Dorado. Jn tile course of an expedition to look for a practical stock route between the northern pastoral lands and tile central goldfields, a party found large numbers of a tiny animal of the' dog tribe, no bigger than a rat. The natives eat it greedily. •J <1 ill not steal it. I simply picked it up and walked out of the house,” slid William Clithoroe, who was charged at LVeston (Eng.) with stealing a purse containing £‘o from the Derby inn. Following out • : s taste for nice distinctions he will pr >- hahly say lie was not imprisoned for foiirtocif days. but that owing to the regulations *of that department of State the officials insisted on his '‘remaining for a couple of weeks as a non-paying guest." The lack of a pocket in women's clothes seems to he a matter of regret to the masculine mind, f ir more so than to the feminine, which is, on the whole, quite content with things as they are. Of course, there are plenty'of elderly women who grumble tint dressmakers will not give them a place for handkerchief and purse, hut. as a matter of fact, women have ever so much more comfort from a roomy and well-fitted handbag than we ever had from the pocket, which was an abomination when more than a handkerchief was carried in it. Then, again, in light-colored material gowns, a much-used pockethole often got soiled, and such marks are always difficult to eradicate, liesides. the hang-hag. if carried on the arm, is really safer than a pocket, while for every hmd-hag lost there used to ho at least three pockets picked. A lore often than not a lost hand-bag turns up again, whereas nothing is ever heard of tile stolen articles. • That the popularity of hand-bags increases every day there is no doubt, and some of them are delightful accessories to the toilette.