Latch Keys For Women

Latch keys have ceased to be a male perquisite since the old-fashioned spinster has been replaced by the bachelor maici. Tte bachelor girl is nqthing if not deterrnined, and so she has adopteil one of the last remaining articles that man could cali hls own. When the key came the pocket had to come with it, of course, and now it is cut in the back of the dress skirt very near the belt line and with a bit of a flap over it to conceal the fact that a coat tail is missing. And thus it is that the treed woman goes on her way, conscious that she may at least enter her own doors at all sorts of coveted and fascinating hours without arousingeveryone from the butler to the aged grandparent who "disapproves." When the pocket came the key chain had to follow in its wake and, behold, from a button proudly sewn to the tailor girl's "weskit" hangs the jeweler's device, for she has not been emancipated long enough to leave off sterling silver and take to plain nickel píate. When the bachelor girl went into business slie was forced into some of the needs of a man and some of hls patented rights had to come to her, and se there came the key ring, in the train of the key and chain, and there was another chance for the smithy to turn out pieces of arf.istic workmanshlp. They are oftener heart-shaped wires of silver, solid and wide. So it seems that woman never gets so "new" that she cannot earry hearts around. Other designs are serpents and over their spring-set tails go the door key, thf mail box key, the escritoire key and all the rest of the lot that used to be always "among the missing." And now the bachelor maid is free from care unless she forgets chain and ring and l;eys. Some unpublislied letters ot KODffrt Burns are soon to be brought out in a volume entitled "The Correspondence Between Burns and Mrs. Dunlop." The correspondence contains the poet's views on reJigion and proves what was never known before - that his friend tried to secure for him a professorship in Edinburgh unirsrsity. Subscribe for The Demo:rat.