From the Deming Headlight 1905 September 7

Pad for Fountain Pen

A business woman who finds it necessary to carry a fountain pen wraps it in a piece of chamois and thereby saves her handkerchiefs and other feminine eddects from many an ink stain. However, the chamois soon becomes saturated with ink, stiff, and unpleasant and must be renewd often.

A better case can be made of inch wide ribbon lined with stockinette rubber cloth and packed with a bit of absorbent cotton at the leaky end of the pen. This will keep the pen always dry to the fingers as the cotton can be changed without trouble and the case itself need never be soiled.

If youi have a male friend who is addicted to the fountain pen habit, you can nedear yourself to him by presenting him with such a case and thus saving his short ribs from many an inky bath whenever he happens to put the pen upside down in his waitcoat pocket.