A Lady's Purse (1909)
In this jolly little comedy, our comedy producer touches on the tender topic, "What do women carry in those immense handbags?" Resolved, therefore, to find out, two thieves "spot" a handsomely dressed woman leaving a bank with a bulging handbag and follow her covetously into a department store. Watching their every chance to get away with the "swag" they follow her from the drug department to the ribbon counter and from the ribbon counter to that ultimate destination of every woman who shops, the bargain counter. A lovely chase follows. One of the most exciting, hair-raising chases you ever could wish for. The miraculous escape of the two thieves from a hundred and one perilous situations finally ends in their dingy back room. They have evaded the police and have obtained the trophy! They bring it forth, place it on the table and gloat over it a moment before they remove "the swag." Now for the contents of the purse. They watch each other suspiciously as both dive their fingers into it. An itemized description of what the purse contains is given below: Powder puff, hair pins, sample of cloth, safety pins, back curls, clippings of "How to Be Beautiful," stick of gum, lace handkerchief, rabbit's foot, theater seat coupons, button hook, an old letter, twelve cents. Our heroes drop back in their chairs with mingling feelings of disgust and despair, while up from the street below, ground out relentlessly by the hand organ man, come the delicious strains of that popular song: "Stung."
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