A contemporary asks: •• How shall women carry their purses to frustrate the thieves? Why, carry them empty. Nothing frustrates a thief more than to snatch a woman's purse, after following her for half a mile, and find that it contain* nothing but a receipe for spice and a faded photograph of her grand* mother," An engaged girl is happiest when she is telling about it to another girl who is not engaged, and is not likely to be,
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4566, 23 August 1883, Page 2
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78Untitled Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4566, 23 August 1883, Page 2
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