Handkerchief
A writer called Horsley wrote in 1887 that the departing children were “little vermin” who had crawled “out of the gutter, the ooze and the slime.”
With such attitudes as those it must have been difficult to have taught the children sufficient hygiene in order to use handkerchiefs to blow their noses. Nevertheless the trunks of both boys and girls contained a liberal quantity of handkerchiefs.