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Show Knitting Bags Are Not Always Toted by Patriotic Souls Store Detective Says Frequently Fre-quently They Camouflage Work of Shoplifters. Just as 'all is not gold that glitters,' glit-ters,' so all knitting bags are not carried by knitters," tsald the house detective of a iSalt Lake department depart-ment store yesterday. The officer of-ficer said that while lie presumed practically practi-cally all of the women who carry the large bags aro doing something to aid their country, others use the bag as camouflage ca-mouflage to cover their kleptomaniacal tendencies. The shoplifter, who, like the poor, is always al-ways with us, has adopted the knitting bag as a. convenient method of storing and concealing sundry items as she strolls through t lie store, and no woman carrying a hag ia entirely free from suspicion, said the detective, although doubtless 99 per cent of them are Innocent patriots. Another queer use for tho knitting bag was observed a few nights ago, when a street railway official was shocked to find that women aro using the ba4,'s to violate the rules of the company. |