"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Friday, September 19, 1913 IT MEANS SHINY NOSES. Washington --- Indignant women with shiny noses are threatening the peace of the Treasury Department as the result of an order issued by Assistant Secretary John Skelton WILLIAMS, forbidding clerks to carry handbags, lunch boxes or other packages into the big treasure house of the government. This has been accepted by the eight hundred women clerks as a direct attempt to eliminate the powder puff. Assistant Secretary WILLIAMS retorts that the order is a precautionary one solely. "How on earth can a woman keep the tip of her nose or her neck presentable," demanded an indignant woman clerk today, "when she is denied the one thing with which to do it? It's a man made order and a man probably isn't supposed to understand. Anyway, we are drawing a formal protest against it." "But," it was suggested, "you might carry the puff and powder in your stock-----" "A splendid idea!" sniffed the women in chorus. "There are men in every room! We'd make fine spectacles of ourselves under such an arrangement." ======================================================