Do you use handkerchiefs? Do you even have handkerchiefs? They seem to be token textile remembrances from an earlier era, an item you might find in time capsule. Like butter churns and girdles, they still serve a purpose but are seldom pressed into service.
This petite monogram is only 1" tall.
Well, now that I think about it, occasionally a bride will carry a hanky which is later made  into a bonnet for her first baby. But for tear jerkers and bad colds, a box of Kleenex is today’s wipe of choice.
Every school day when I was 8 years old, I rode my bicycle one block to Curtis’ house where he would be waiting on the front porch for me. As he mounted his Schwinn, without fail his mother would call from the kitchen, “Curtis, do you have a clean handkerchief?” Without fail, he would replay, “Yes, Mama!” and we rode off to school.
My routine departure from home did not include a handkerchief check. I sometimes wondered if this were a serious breach of etiquette. Like every school girl in the ’50, I always wore dresses. Since I had neither a pocket nor a purse in my school girl dresses to carry a hanky if I had one, I concluded that it must be a boy requirement. Continue reading
