Much taste and ingenuity are expended on the selection of favors for ladies, and these pretty fancies-bonbonnieres, painted ribbons and reticules, and fans covered with flowers-add greatly to the elegance and luxury of our modern dinner-table.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
These lovely reticules may be any shape, and composed of almost any material.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Women with reticules and bandboxes were trying to keep up with husbands freighted with carpet sacks and crying babies, and making a failure of it by losing their heads in the whirl and roar and general distraction.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot